Film Education

Film in our culture are used for expression and transmission of stories, propositions and to circulate, organise and retrieve information and retrieve information and to maintain or challenge political powers.

Media in education has two sets of values contributory use: encouragement of communication, cultural diversity. The second set is subject in their own right: media languages, method of production or consumption. The criticism of this are they could fall back on their reading skills. 

Through watching films from a young age children can obtain literacy skills e.g. genre recognition, they can explain moving images at a worldly level than they can texts. Thus they can engross themselves in more complex films.

Literacy is a broad collection of knowledge, skills and apprehension, a child's ability to understand and analyse films is part of being literate.

Films are worth studying as a part of cultural heritage, the learner can obtain information much easier through media and can access and immense amount of knowledge. Film education have three integrated parts:

Cultural: widen learner’s experience of variety of media and content

Critical: evolve learner’s critical skills in investigating and evaluate media outputs

Creative: expand learner’s creative skills within media for communication, participation in debates