Some activities for using this film with children:

Top and Tail This comes from Look Again, the fabulous primary  media literacy curriculum, widely used in Great Britain to for media literacy education in grades PK  - 6. 

Show the opening sequences and the credits to help pupils identify its genre and intended audience, and to predict its content and ‘message’.

● Show the production credits at the beginning and/or end of a moving image text and discuss the information they provide

about the production of the text.

● Ask pupils to research a particular job or role in the making of the film that they saw in the credits (eg director, producer,

lighting engineer). Findings could be presented in role-play: ‘Hot seat’ questioning pupils about ‘their role’ in making a real or

imagined moving image text.

● Do you think this is a cinema film or a TV programme? (Are different conventions or production values evident from the opening

sequence?)

● Do you think it is fact or fiction? (How is the authenticity and authority of a non fiction text signalled? How are the conventions of a fictional

text presented?)

● Who do you think would watch this? (Is there evidence of a particular audience being targeted?)

● Can you tell what it is about? (How clearly is the genre/purpose of the text signalled in the title sequence?)

● Why might it have been made? Does it have a ‘message’? If so, what is it? (Is the purpose of the text to entertain? Inform? Does it promote

a particular point of view?)

● What roles were involved in making it? (What does the order of the roles in the credits tell you about the status/relative importance of

those involved? Which roles are taken by individuals and which by teams?)

Pupils should learn that:

● Title sequences identify the text and ‘sell’ it to audiences; they may be very explicit about the text’s genre, content, audience and

purpose or they may disguise this to provoke curiosity.

● Many roles may contribute to the production of a moving image text and can affect its content, style and meaning.