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How to run an FfL workshop for Teachers

This is a great introduction to film making 

You will need about an hour and a half.  In this session teachers will:

  • develop basic film making skills
  • develop team/collaborative skills
  • work with colleagues in a way they are not used to
  • and have fun!

The only limitations for this as an activity are the numbers of cameras available and the imagination of those involved.

Get your staff into curriculum groups of 7/8 and give them a camera. Tell them to make a film in an hour, the film must be about an aspect of learning connected to their curriculum and include a specific inanimate object (in our example films we used a standard issue school chair). No editing is required as the film is to be made 'in camera'. This means using the pause button to stop filming between shots. Every scene will have to be shot in chronological order.

Here are some resources you can use to help your staff meeting run successfully:

Group Clapperboard/sign*

Introductory Powerpoint*

Instruction sheet with suggested timings.*

*Films for Learning resources are free and membership of the Films for Learning Community is free. We restrict downloads of our resources to members of the FFL Community. This means we have some idea as to who is using our resources.

Membership of the FFL Community also enables you to upload your films, comment on and rate films, as well as join in with the forum discussions.

Joining is easy, just follow the ‘sign up' link in the top right corner of this screen.

You may use any of these resources and update them or personalise them as you wish. However; please encourage your participants to use the FFL site for sharing films.

The best part of the activity is playing the films back to everyone after the hour film making. If all teachers return with the tape cued up in the right place you can connect one camera to a projector and quickly play one after another.

‘Probably the best and most imaginative staff meeting I have attended' 

- Feedback given by a teacher of 17 years.

Here are some examples of chair films we made.... don't watch them if you don't want to be unfairly influenced... you might want to save them until you have run your own staff meeting!

PE Chair

Spanish Chair

Arty Chair