Produced by participants at a BFI Lead Practitioners’ training event at Scalford Hall.

Learning outcomes

•    Why has this story been told?

•    How do you feel about the character?

•    How does the character make you feel?

•    What don’t you see? (Does it matter?)

•    What is the film maker’s viewpoint?

•    How can these skills be applied to reading a printed text, and writing?

Possible activities to support the Learning Journey

•    Speaking and Listening a main focus

•    Philosophy for Children/Aiden Chambers -style approaches to children generating questions and allowing ownership of their learning (Not second guessing the answer)

•    Drama based interviews, hot-seating, freeze frames, role play

•    Music and drawn responses to the soundtrack

•    Freeze-frame the film and use speech bubbles and focus on episodic nature of the film

•    Make predictions on what will happen subsequently

•    Cross curricular links to PHSE, ICT film making, RE, art, etc.

•    Music activities listening and appraising/composing own soundtracks

•    Emotion graphs

Film analysis

•    Discussion of authorial viewpoint

•    Exploration of the use of stillness, pause and camera angle and to what effect?

•    What would you change? For example, colour, setting, expression, speech

•    What would be the effect of this?

•    Tell me about the setting?

Tom Sweep is one of the films on the BFI compilation/teaching resource Starting Stories 2 .