Primary Film Online

Primary Film Online will research, develop and build a website that engages children creatively with the moving image.

The project is designed in such a way as to delight and motivate children as young as 6 years old to build their understanding of film and film making, through the use of online tools and real world activities. The project enables collaboration between children, and encourages them to reach out into the community and harness filmmaking tools to communicate.

Children will be consulted and involved in all stages of the project. The website development will evolve out of a series of consultations and collaborations with groups of 6-9 year olds and their teachers, parents, youth workers and other learning providers. The project is developed from the bottom up – the core of the proposition being the key role children play in developing and influencing the concept, content and ultimate look of the website.

Primary Film Online will use both online and real world activities to stimulate film and filmmaking and offer a unique multi-layered experience – from computer to cinema, via the playground, home, classroom and back again. There will be a strong educational underpinning to the project and where appropriate, it will be linked to national strategies relating to curriculum enrichment, literacy and the new primary strategy.

Consultations with children are beginning and will continue through to the New Year, when the full-scale project will be launched.

Primary Film Online is a partnership project between First Light, the UK Film Council, the British Film Institute, CBBCi and Creative Partnerships.