Week 2 - Movie Image Education

Moving Image Education (MIE)

  

'Moving Image Education is about helping young people to question, analyse, explore and understand the meaning of what they’re watching and hearing' (2009, Creative Scotland). 

When children are engaged in movie imaging, they are provided with the opportunity to analyse by learning how to read film like books, explore the culture and heritage of moving images and also create their own movies. The MIE programme involves analysing moving image texts, creating them, exploring, appreciating and sharing them. This can be shown through the ‘3C’s’ of media literacy which includes: the cultural, the critical and the creative. This model is part of a whole enriching and supporting technique where the skills are linked with one another.

The MIE programme also helps children to achieve the four capacities of curriculum for excellence. The children are using media to become: 

• Confident individuals– by being able to relate to others and manage themselves through accepting roles, compromising and using formative assessment. 

• Successful learners – by being able to use literacy, communication and numeracy skills through talking, listening and developing their number skills.

• Effective contributors - by being able to communicate in different ways and settings through using media to convey ideas, communicating and developing audience awareness.

• Responsible citizens – by showing respect for others and participating responsibly through democratic decisions and electing and acknowledging film roles.

(Scottish Government, undated).

Over the course of the week, I was involved in producing and experimenting in movie making. I made a short 5 minute clip within my collaborative group which I found exciting, engaging, productive and active way of enhancing learning. In my opinion, the skills developed in MIE are analysing and discussing, personal and functional writing, talking, listening and also developing creativity. MIE gives children the opportunity to think outside of the box and be more confident in their activities surrounding the MIE programme as there are no right or wrong answers. In relation to Curriculum for Excellence, movie image education aims to teach and develop literacy skills. The curriculum suggests that ‘MIE is more than just a literacy programme. It is a rich context for learning that allows children to develop across the curriculum’ (Scottish Government, undated). 

Examples of MIE in action - http://www.movingimageeducation.org/resources/mie-in-practice/mie-in-action-films  

References 

Creative Scotland (2009). Moving Image Education. Available online at: http://www.movingimageeducation.org/ [accessed on 29/1/12]. 

Scottish Government (undated). Scottish Screen, Moving Image Education. Available online at http://www.scottishscreen.com/images/documents/MIE_ACfE_for_ScottishScreen_email.pdf [accessed on 29/11/12].