What is Moving Image Education?

Children experience moving images from earliest childhood. Cartoons, films, adverts, and all moving image media are very carefully constructed to tell stories and provoke feelings. They are a huge part of our culture.

Children learn intuitively to read this information so they can follow a story.

Moving Image Education is about helping young people to, analyse, question, explore and understand the meaning of what they are seeing.

The free activities, information and guidance available here are ideally suited to the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence and the Four Capacities across all subjects and everyone working with groups of young people of all ages and abilities.

Analyse

Watch films and learn to read them like books

Explore

All about the culture and heritage of moving images

Create

A full guide to making your own movies, starting with simple and exciting activities

Resources

Free films, worksheets and many other classroom resources

Forum

Share knowledge and experience


"...pupils were happy, so staff were happy, so management were happy... everybody enjoys the experience of MIE." Teacher in Brechin MIE pilot project

Enthuse and motivate your class.

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Use our step by step guide to making your own film or video. Really understand the whole process.

Because teachers are often learning alongside their class we structure activities to help you all to learn together.

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This site is funded by Creative Scotland working with film and education experts