Duffryn Film and Sound project
Our Film and Sound project at Duffryn High School, Newport begins in November. This project, funded by the Film Agency for Wales and UWN First Campus, will provide film and film-making activities for Year 7, Year 12 and a Year 11 alternative curriculum group.

Film and sound workshops in Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Carmarthen
As part of the Soundtrack festival, Tom Barrance will be presenting a session on Film and Sound on November 20th. For the first time, the Digital Screen Network will be used to link sessions at the Cineworld Cardiff, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and the Scala in Prestatyn by satellite. The session is aimed at GCSE and AS Film Studies and BTEC National Diploma in Media Production. It’s free but you have to book: leaflet and application form here.

European Media Literacy Conference
Tom Barrance presented our new resources Editsense and Filmsense at the European Media Literacy Conference in Bellaria, Italy. He 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. The DVD-ROM includes four films for students to edit themselves using iMovie or Final Cut. (A PC version for Premiere Pro and Elements is planned for next year). You can download the leaflet/order form here. Prices start at £40 for the single user version.
Filmsense is an Flash-based introduction to film language. It’s included on the Editsense DVD-ROM, and will also shortly be available on its own as a download purchase for Mac and PC.

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.

Media and Film 09
Our annual INSET event for Media and Film Studies teachers was our biggest and most successful yet, with over 120 teachers from schools and colleges around the UK and beyond. Media and Film 2010 will be on 16 and 17 September. 

Film education training research
We’ve been awarded a tender by the Film Agency for Wales to investigate training needs for film education in Wales.
The aim is to develop accredited training, both for those with some expertise or experience, and for those who work with children and young people and would like to learn about using film and film-making.
If you are interested or have views on this, please visit www.mediaedwales.org.uk/cpdresearch.htm to complete our online questionnaire

Blog
We now have examples of project work on a blog. If your place of work blocks Blogger or YouTube you will need to watch it from home. We will shortly be including examples directly on this site.

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