Poetry and Film
Fifteen poets from Wales and England came together at the end of April for a weekend exploring the relationship between poetry and film, montage and metaphor. Tom Barrance of Media Education Wales, Mark Reid of BFI Education, and Ynyr Williams of Salem Films supported the poets while they worked in groups on bilingual film poems. There are photos of the weekend here. We’re now planning to run film and poetry workshops for children.

Making movies make sense
Our CD-ROM on film language was highly commended in the Learning and Skills Hardware, Software, Content, and Tools category, at the BETT Awards 2006. It was also shortlisted in the English Key Stages 3 and 4 category.

Media 21
85 Media Studies teachers attended our annual INSET in September 2007. Following the succes of the event we are expanding it this year to include GCSE and A-level Film Studies. Media and Film 08 will be on 2 and 3 October, again in Ty Dysgu, Nantgarw, just north of Cardiff.

Media Teachers' Association
The UK professional association of media teachers is now established and we'll be organising another Wales meeting in Cardiff within the next few weeks.

Deall ffilmiau, gwneud ffilmiau
The Welsh version of Making movies make sense is now available. For more details click on the link above.

Suggested video equipment for Media Studies
We've recently updated the list of equipment which we produced with support from the WJEC. This is a free downloadable PDF with a list of what you need in terms of filming and editing equipment, with suggested models and prices.

Llunyddiaeth
We are doing several INSET sessions on films for GCSE and A-level Welsh this year. We'll shortly be adding Solomon a Gaenor to the films we can cover, as the WJEC will be offering it as an alternative to Hedd Wyn for A-level Welsh Second Language.