Science and Film – CPD
The day would follow the development of film from Victorian moving image devices through to the advent of film and film projection.
The use of light, power, lenses, sound and machinery can be used as a foundation for exploration and research during the day and how these areas can relate back to areas of scientific study in the classroom.
Scientific enquiry
- How and where did the capturing of images start?
- Investigate the development of moving images through Victorian to present day.
- What is the science behind movement?
- What is sound?
- How was sound added to film?
- What is colour?
- How was colour introduced onto film?
- What are the major developments in the past 30 years?
- What is next?
- What happens to our body when we watch a film?
Life Processes
- Documentaries on natural history
- How to design a documentary
- Record the growth of plants through film and animate their growth
- Record the growth of the class
- The use of film in recording scientific processes.
- Recording daily weather to form a scientific data base for use in school
Physical Processes
- How do our eyes work?
- Persistence of vision
- Animation – flick books
- Light and the spectrum
- Lenses
- How does a camera work?
- What is a digital camera?
- Lighting a film set
- How light has been used to capture and project film
- Make a film set and light it
- How do our ears work?
- Sound- what is it and how do you record it?
- Making sound tracks and special sound effects
Looking at Film about Science
- Star Wars
- The Iron Giant
- Jurassic Park
- Atificial lntelligence
- The Incredibles
- E.T.
- Wall E
- Robots
- Superman
- Short Circuit
- Meet the Robinsons
- The Flight of the Navigator
- Back to the Future
- Microcosmos
- The Fox and the Child
Science and literature + graphic novels
- Batman
- Frankenstein
- The War of the Worlds
- The Time Machine
- Spiderman
£150 per day – refreshments and resource pack included