Film Festivals as Effective Tools in Media Education
Yrjänä, Aino (2014)
Yrjänä, Aino
Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014052810638
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014052810638
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The purpose of this thesis was to study how film festivals can be used as effective tools in media education. The main research problems were how can local education institutes implement film education in their curriculums? What kind of co-operation educational institutes and film festivals have and how this can be developed further?
To answer to these questions, the background of the research was set by first exploring the theory of media and film education and defining some of the keywords of media and film education. The theory included researching Finnish media education and the cur-rent state of film education in Finland. The second part of the theory focused on significant film experiences, which served as a bridge to the second part of the thesis. The second, more empirical, part of the thesis studied the research question: how film festivals can be effective tools in media education? This part of the study was implemented through analysing survey data, which included comments and views from the representatives of film festivals and educational institutes.
The results suggest that there is a great possibility to use film festivals as tools in media education by developing the already existing (and hopefully future) co-operations bet-ween the festivals and educational institutions. The results indicate that film education should be more accessible in schools in order to make it easier to approach. Educating the educators and offering pre-assembled film education to schools are the first steps closer to broader national film education. The suggestion is to invest on regional film education libraries so that children and youth can access non-popcorn mass media films more easily.
The hope is that the thesis provides the reader, despite scratching the surface of the topic, summarized information and overview of the state of film education in Finland. An-other hope is that film festivals are considered as tools in media education nationally and the co-operation between film festivals and educational institutions are seen as development sites in the future. The last grand hope is that someone could pick up the final conclusions of this thesis and invest on the concept idea how regional film educational libraries can be implemented.
To answer to these questions, the background of the research was set by first exploring the theory of media and film education and defining some of the keywords of media and film education. The theory included researching Finnish media education and the cur-rent state of film education in Finland. The second part of the theory focused on significant film experiences, which served as a bridge to the second part of the thesis. The second, more empirical, part of the thesis studied the research question: how film festivals can be effective tools in media education? This part of the study was implemented through analysing survey data, which included comments and views from the representatives of film festivals and educational institutes.
The results suggest that there is a great possibility to use film festivals as tools in media education by developing the already existing (and hopefully future) co-operations bet-ween the festivals and educational institutions. The results indicate that film education should be more accessible in schools in order to make it easier to approach. Educating the educators and offering pre-assembled film education to schools are the first steps closer to broader national film education. The suggestion is to invest on regional film education libraries so that children and youth can access non-popcorn mass media films more easily.
The hope is that the thesis provides the reader, despite scratching the surface of the topic, summarized information and overview of the state of film education in Finland. An-other hope is that film festivals are considered as tools in media education nationally and the co-operation between film festivals and educational institutions are seen as development sites in the future. The last grand hope is that someone could pick up the final conclusions of this thesis and invest on the concept idea how regional film educational libraries can be implemented.