Media and Film 2010
Our annual two-day INSET, on 16-17 September, is now open for booking (download the leaflet and application form here. There’s a discount for early booking, and prices have been held at 2008 levels.

Pierhead Sessions
Tom Barrance ran a session on Film and Global Citizenship at the Pierhead Sessions in Cardiff Bay in March 2010, using films by film-makers from the developing world, with a focus on Africa.

Zoom
Tom Barrance led a practical session on film, sound and montage as part of the 2010 Zoom Cymru 2010 festival, which was featured on S4C’s Wedi 7 magazine programme.

Duffryn Film and Sound project
Our Film and Sound project at Duffryn High School, Newport is nearing completion. This project, funded by the Film Agency for Wales and UWN First Campus, is providing film and film-making activities for a Year 7 English class, a Year 12 Media Studies class, and a Year 11 vocational group.

Film and sound workshops in Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Carmarthen
As part of the Soundtrack festival, Tom Barrance presented a session on Film and Sound in November. For the first time, the Digital Screen Network was used to link sessions at the Cineworld Cardiff, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and the Scala in Prestatyn by satellite.

European Media Literacy Conference
Our new resources Editsense and Filmsense were presented at the European Media Literacy Conference in Bellaria, Italy, where we also showed a music film from Waterhall Youth Centre, Cardiff and a poem film from Ysgol Glantaf as part of a session on film education.

New resources to support film-making
Editsense –our new resource for teaching film language and editing – is now available in both Mac and PC versions. The DVD-ROM includes four films for students to edit themselves using any standard editing software. Filmsense is an Flash-based introduction to film language. It’s included on the Editsense DVD-ROM, and is also available on its own as a download purchase for Mac and PC. For more information about both resources visit www.editsense.org

Ffilmschool 2 report now online
A report on our Ffilmschool 2 project is now online. The research was commissioned by the Film Agency for Wales and undertaken by Dr Aparna Sharma of the University of Glamorgan. The report highlights the value of using non-narrative film with Year 6 and 7 children, and the way in which the film, music and poetry project developed basic skills.

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