Into Film Clubs
Find out everything you need to know about starting an Into Film Club.
As the coronavirus/COVID-19 situation continues, and many schools are under varying levels of government restriction, we recognise that this poses many difficult challenges for schools and educators, not to mention parents who will be seeking ways to keep their children meaningfully occupied whilst at home.
To provide help with these issues, we have made a number of our member-facing activities freely available to all. These activities provide help for teachers and parents by offering simple, easy and useful activities that young people can complete unaided. We will continue to provide online learning options for young people of all ages as the UK-wide situation continues, so be sure to keep checking back.
These activities include our review writing guides, which can help young people apply their film knowledge, critical thinking and literacy skills to any film, providing a valuable - and entertaining - means of honing their English and writing skills during any potential school closures. What's more, all reviews submitted via our website will be entered into our Review of the Week competition, with great prizes to be won.
Note: Only those young people who are members of an Into Film Club will be able to post reviews on our website and have any winning work featured on our Review of the Week page.
As well as review writing, our activities also support filmmaking - which can be done with minimal equipment, even on a mobile phone or tablet - and our ongoing Film of the Month competition offers the perfect way for young people to keep busy with a practical project that can be completed within the home and enhances various skills including organisation, planning and creative thinking.
You can also encourage young people to check out our YouTube channel Get Into Film, where our reporters interviewing actors and filmmakers from the all the latest film releases, and sharing their views on the world of film.
The below resources are suitable for those of a Primary school age. Some resources are available in the Welsh language.
Ages: 7 - 11
Type of Activity: Quizzes
A fun multiple-choice quiz to help match your skills and personality to interesting film careers.
A short quiz to find out which film career would best suit you.
Size: 69kb
Ages: 7 - 16
Type of Activity: Creative, Film watching
Do you want to improve your review writing? Use this template to organise your ideas and get creative.
Ages: All ages
Type of Activity: Film watching, Games
Talk and write about the 3Cs (colour, camera, character) and the 3Ss (sound, setting, story) of film to improve your film reviews.
Ages: 5 - 11
Type of Activity: Creative
Create your own thaumatrope and see how the illusion of moving image in film is created through the persistence of vision.
A template to help you create these optical toys.
Size: 98kb
Ages: 5 - 16
Type of Activity: Creative, Filmmaking
Design the hair and make-up for the films that you make, or try and recreate examples from the films you watch.
Ages: 5 - 16
Type of Activity: Creative, Filmmaking
Create costume designs for the films that you make or design alternative costumes for your favourite film characters.
Ages: 11+
Type of Activity: Creative
Plan a fun film party to celebrate the end of term or other special event.
Ages: 7 - 16
Type of Activity: Creative
Create an eye-catching film poster for the films you make, or design alternative posters for the films you watch.
Design a film poster using this template.
Size: 50kb
Ages: 5 - 16
Type of Activity: Filmmaking
Follow these top tips when making your films to help make your finished film the best it can be.
Ages: All ages
Type of Activity: Filmmaking, Games
Match the film career to the filmmaking equipment used in the job role.
Match the film career to the equipment used in that job.
Size: 259kb
The below resources are suitable for those of a Secondary school age. Some resources are available in the Welsh language.
Do you want to improve your review writing? Use this template to organise your ideas and get creative.
Ages: 7 - 16
Type of Activity: Creative, Film watching
Talk and write about the 3Cs (colour, camera, character) and the 3Ss (sound, setting, story) of film to improve your film reviews.
Ages: All ages
Type of Activity: Film watching, Games
Ages: All ages
Type of Activity: Film watching
Do you want to watch films that are a bit different, or more unusual? A great way to improve your film knowledge is to set yourself the challenge of viewing films from all over the world. Use this map to record the films you watch and the countries they come from and you can become an international film expert!
You can combine your journey into world film with our My Film Viewing Timeline activity and watch films from every decade.
Watch films from all over of the world and create your own film map.
Size: 159kb
Ages: 11 - 16
Type of Activity: Film watching
This activity explores how to curate a film programme for an imaginary cinema, based on conducting research into two cinemas in your local area.
Use this activity to curate a film programme for an imaginary cinema.
Size: 106kb
Ages: 7+
Type of Activity: Creative, Filmmaking
Create a mood board for a film based on ideas generated by the people you're making your film with; your production team.
Use this mood board template to map out your film ideas.
Size: 107kb
Ages: 7 - 14
Type of Activity: Games
Sort out the visual clues to create a film title. Play on your own or as a group.
Ages: 7+
Type of Activity: Film watching
Ever wondered how film posters are put together? How do they decide what information is included and what is left out? And why? Compare some different film posters with this activity and become an expert in reading between the lines of the posters you see every day.
Ages: 7 - 16
Type of Activity: Quizzes
Test your knowledge of films and characters with these fiendish anagrams, and have a go at creating your own quiz to challenge your friends and family with.
Ages: All ages
Type of Activity: Film watching
Do you want to watch films that are a bit different, or more unusual? A great way to improve your film knowledge is to challenge yourself to watch a film from each decade. Use this timeline to record the films you watch and the years they come from.
You can combine your journey through film history with our My Film Viewing Map activity, to watch films from around the world.
Ages: 11+
Type of Activity: Filmmaking
Perfect your filmmaking skills by practising the 'show, don't tell' technique.
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