Voros, Konstantinos;
(2023)
‘Developing Moving Image Literacy: Filmmaking in a
Greek Primary School’.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
The thesis presents a small-scale case study of a group of Greek primary school children learning to make a film. The research questions revolve around the topic of how these children learn the language and metalanguage of the moving image and how they use it in their productions. The study takes the young learners through a series of stages, including working with still photographs, storyboards and filming and editing, exploring learning progression in relation to framing and composition, and also to cultural context and identity./ The analysis of the data, employing aspects of discourse and multimodal analysis, shows a complex cyclical relationship between conceptual learning and material practice. However, it also shows that the moving image involves a range of semiotic modes beyond the conventional affordances of filming and editing: that it is multimodal in ways not conventionally recognised in film and media education. The analysis also shows how the cultural resources drawn on by the children relate to their social and cultural contexts, and to their presentation of and exploration of their identities./ The study concludes by presenting a three-part framework that emerged from the analysis of the data in which the concept-practice relation is seen as Dialectical; the performative use of other modes, principally action and language, is seen as Dramatic; and the related identity work as well as the conceptual learning are seen as developmental./ As well as this theoretical contribution to knowledge, the study contributes to the wider understanding of media and film education in the Greek context, hoping to offer researched recommendations towards the introduction of media and film education into the official school curriculum in the country.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | ‘Developing Moving Image Literacy: Filmmaking in a Greek Primary School’ |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169973 |
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