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Resolve the tension by partnering with Bloodfest to innovate your students' future through project based learning.
Resolve the tension by partnering with Bloodfest to innovate your students' future through project based learning.
Bloodfest Short Film Festival gives new value to Literature, as well as Moral, Spiritual, & Intellectual value to your students English studies through alignment with Shakespeare. If you're looking for a new way to excite your students in a medium and format that they believe in, consider making a short Bloodfest Horror Film with your Shakespeare module as the stimulus core.
Through Bloodfest Film Festival and YOU, your students will engage with the themes and topics of the prescribed Board of Studies Shakespeare plays (2019 - 23), by positioning themselves as creative Influencer within this active method pedagogy
Bloodfest Short Film Challenge asks classes make a 5 min short film in the Horror (or sub Horror Genre.)
Up for grabs are Industry Prizes and a chance to see your film at EVENT cinemas Bondi Junction during Halloween week as part of Bloodfest Film Festival Red Carpet Gala 2019.
The cost to enter your class is A$500 which includes entry of 3 films into the completion and a 1.5 hr face to face PD with a Bloodfest Teaching Artist to coach you with the basics of taking Shakespeare to the screen. This includes training you in the screenplay format, the genre, storyboarding, shooting basics & editing.
We will give you the skills to creatively lead your class with absolute confidence, and the opportunity to see your film on a commercial cinema screen.
Below are some examples of how you can use themes, plots and topics from the Bard to springboard ideas to make you short film.
Your students will craft Shakespeare's verbal poetry into visual poetry. The film genre allows students the chance to deconstruct, infer, objectify, problem solve, critically think and evaluate. Students also learn as part of the film making process Logistics, Conflict | Resolution in teams, Creativity, Teamwork and Collaboration.
For further details please contact us here
For NSW English Curriculum Alignment here
Through Bloodfest Film Festival and YOU, your students will engage with the themes and topics of the prescribed Board of Studies Shakespeare plays (2019 - 23), by positioning themselves as creative Influencer within this active method pedagogy
Bloodfest Short Film Challenge asks classes make a 5 min short film in the Horror (or sub Horror Genre.)
Up for grabs are Industry Prizes and a chance to see your film at EVENT cinemas Bondi Junction during Halloween week as part of Bloodfest Film Festival Red Carpet Gala 2019.
The cost to enter your class is A$500 which includes entry of 3 films into the completion and a 1.5 hr face to face PD with a Bloodfest Teaching Artist to coach you with the basics of taking Shakespeare to the screen. This includes training you in the screenplay format, the genre, storyboarding, shooting basics & editing.
We will give you the skills to creatively lead your class with absolute confidence, and the opportunity to see your film on a commercial cinema screen.
Below are some examples of how you can use themes, plots and topics from the Bard to springboard ideas to make you short film.
Your students will craft Shakespeare's verbal poetry into visual poetry. The film genre allows students the chance to deconstruct, infer, objectify, problem solve, critically think and evaluate. Students also learn as part of the film making process Logistics, Conflict | Resolution in teams, Creativity, Teamwork and Collaboration.
For further details please contact us here
For NSW English Curriculum Alignment here
Play |
Suggested Theme Example |
Text Proof |
Horror Film Sub Genre |
Possible Contemporary Discussion |
Midsummer Nights Dream |
• Obligation • Forbidden Love |
Theseus / Edges forcing Hermia to wed the male they want. |
Psychological Thriller (Real Word Pressure) |
• Arranged Marriages • Obedience • Male decision making for females |
Hamlet |
• Supernatural • Occult • Death |
Ghost appearing to Hamlet and urging murder |
Supernatural |
• Anxiety • Mental Illness • Teen pressures • Murder & Suicide |
King Henry iv (Pt 1) |
• Honour • Broken Family Relationships • Power Unrest |
King Henry's disappointment in son Hal's behaviour and Hal's pledge for redemption |
Slasher |
• Government Dissatisfaction • Family Loyalty • Gangs • Weapons |
Richard iii |
• Ambition • Murder • Political Deception • Disability |
Richard imprisoning & killing King Edwards young sons coupled with Richard's rise to power |
Slasher |
• Fundamentalism •Social Media Portrayal • Media Manipulation • Accessibility • Inclusivity • Diversity |
Merchant of Venice |
• Society Morals & Norms • Politics of Commerce • Selflesness • True Friendship |
• Bassanio owes a creditor money and cannot meet the repayment • Antonio & Bassanio's strong friendship |
• Psychological Thriller (Real World Pressure) • Sci- Fi |
• Credit Cards / Creditors • Debt • Fiscal Responsibility / Banks Budgeting • Poverty in Australia • Standard of Living • Leniency in Law • Forgiveness • LGBTQI+ |
The Tempest |
Land ownership |
Prospero enslaving Caliban |
Creature Feature |
• Colonialism • Anti Colonialism • Land Rights • Climate Change • Aboriginal Dreaming |