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Reframing
Poetry:
Film and poetry in the English classroom
Saturday 4th December 2010 9.30 am - 1.30 pm
BFI
Southbank, Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XT
(Nearest Tube: Waterloo)
Main
Speakers:
Simon Armitage
Michael
Rosen
Poetry and film both present challenges to the English and literacy
teacher but, beyond this common difficulty, do they have anything
in common? And might they be brought into the same room in order
to shed light on each other? This one-day conference for primary
and secondary English teachers will explore how to bring poetry
and film into closer relation to each other in the English curriculum,
with presentations by poet and poetry film-maker Simon Armitage
and poet, performer and broadcaster Michael Rosen, as well as a
range of workshops by teacher practitioners and poets.
Bookstall provided by Newham Bookshop
Programme
9.30 am: Coffee and registration
10.00 am: Simon Armitage:
Simon Armitage is well known as the award-winning author of 17 volumes
of poetry over the last 20 years (from Zoom to this year's Seeing
Stars) as well as two novels and work for stage and radio. But an
important strand of his work is in bringing together poetry and
film. For his keynote he will present and talk about work that he
has produced and had broadcast on television, much of it with director
Brian Hill. You can read more about Simon and his work at www.simonarmitage.com
11.00 am: Coffee
11.15 am: Workshop Groups – choose one from list below
12.15 pm: Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen's latest project encourages children and young people
to film their poems, or performances of the work of others, and
upload them to his new site http://performapoem.lgfl.org.uk/
During the day, some colleagues will have the chance to prepare
their own 'perform a poem' pieces for the site, which Michael will
present during his talk. He will also show and talk about other
work, including Under the Cranes, a poem-film he is currently working
on.
1.00 pm: Lunch
Workshops
1.
Rhyme and Motion
Blossom Carrasco (Lambeth City Learning Centre)
This session will explore the use of film-making to support young
people’s understanding and enjoyment of poetry. Using poems
from the South Bank Centre Poetry Library and simple editing software,
the session will provide a practical introduction to creating short
film-poems with pupils at KS2 and KS3.
2.
Persistence of Vision: Animating Poetry
Scott Fisher (Stokenham Area Primary School, Devon)
Discover the work on linking animation and poetry explored during
the Persistence of Vision project and the positive impact it had
on the outcomes in poetry across the Devon primary schools involved,
a brief history of animation at Stokenham Area Primary School, and
an interactive introduction to the modern techniques and equipment
being used to develop animation in poetry and across Literacy in
the primary school classroom.
3. Poetry/ Script/ Film
Ian Wall (Director, Film Education)
This workshop will examine the ways in which moving images can be
used in the understanding and exploration of poetry. Starting from
the initial idea of what we ask our students to do when studying
poetry we will then move on to examining the ways in which moving
images can help us deliver some of these objectives. Using examples
from World War One poetry as well as pre 20th century texts, participants
will create their own films based on these texts using archive footage.
4.
Multi-modality Originality: Using Film Poetry in the classroom
Paul Clayton (Assistant Head, Merrill College in Derby)
The quest to put poetry on film has led both film-makers and poets
to create some highly original, genre-defying work; and this practical
workshop demonstrates how examples of "film poetry" can
be used in any classroom to unleash students' own creativity. Suitable
for teachers of any phase.
5.
From Psycho to Poetry
Poets Simon Barraclough and Isobel Dixon
The writer Raymond Durgnat breaks Psycho's shower scene down into
six "lyrical" poetic stanzas. How does he do this and
why? Two poets from the recent event 'Psycho Poetica' discuss Durgnat's
method and use it as the basis for a poetry writing exercise using
a different scene from the film. Take part in the exercise and then
discuss how best to apply it to other films, other poems, and your
teaching.
6.
Rich mix, illustration, or a new genre?
English and Media Centre
This session will use a rich mix of published and online moving
image poetry to explore just what film can really do for poetry,
and to reflect on the interaction between the written word on paper,
in sound, as image and on screen. The second part of the session
will focus on integrated classroom approaches to developing KS3
and 4 students’ skills as readers and writers of both poetry
and media.
BFI Southbank is on the river, between the National Theatre and
the Royal Festival Hall. The main entrance doesn’t open until
9.45am, so the best way in is through the benugo Riverfront Café
under Waterloo Bridge. Visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/visitor_information
for further details
Fee (including lunch and coffee)
£35
£15
students and unwaged
(NB
an additional fee of £10.00 will be charged for attending
without prior booking)
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