WHAT IS THE E-STAFF PROJECT ?

 

 

 This section provides summarized information and a full description of our project. 

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FRA#36 - Erasmus Days - E-STAFF special evening

On October 14-16th, we celebrated the Erasmus Days all across Europe. In Les Perrières Secondary School, we made a special Erasmus Days evening to close the second year of the project, which we couldn't do in June because of the Covid-19 pandemic. We invited the students, parents, local officials and local media. If the ceremony of the first year took place in the Castle of Deomas, this year we could use our brand new reception room !

 

During the evening, the students presented E-STAFF to the public and gave their personal impressions about the project. After that, we screened a video recap of the last two years :

We also screened the video reports that were produced by the students during the second year, with a particular focus on journalist Eric Valmir (who had come to our school exactly one year before) and filmmaker Guillaume Laurant.

And of course, we watched the two short films that were made, with French subtitles : A Journey to Save the City (year 1) and The Meeting of Shadows (year 2), as an official premiere, followed by the behind-the-scenes report :

There was also a graduation ceremony, during which the coordinator of the project and the School Principal awarded specific grades to the E-STAFF students, indicating their progress through the eight modules of the project. 

We finished this beautiful evening with announcements about our new partnership with the European Film Factory and about the future of the project, that still lives on until February 2021...!

CAT#48 - Premier of our movie "The Light" for the entire school for ERASMUS DAY 2020

 

Today, 15^th of October 2020 in FEDAC Manresa, we have celebrated Erasmus Day with the Premiere of our first E-STAFF movie for the whole school. We had initially programed a big premiere celebration and party last April. However, it was all cancelled due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Students and teachers taking part in the E-STAFF project thought that the Erasmus Day would be the perfect opportunity to finally share our first movie with the entire learning community of our school.

4 Students have presented the project and the film to the rest of the school in an online meeting with all classes. After that, all classes have simultaneously watched our movie “The Light” featuring the most famous legend associated to the town of Manresa.

All students have enjoyed the film and have commented on the great quality of this Erasmus Plus final project result.

We had previously announced the event on social media and today we have also posted pictures of the event.

FRA#32 - Project delayed and teleworking resources

Due to the situation of confinement in the European Union, and with the support of the Erasmus+ National Agency, we shall momentarily suspend the mobility process of the E-STAFF project, as well as all the film-making activities. The E-STAFF, which was to take place in the European Parliament Strasbourg at the end of May, is delayed to this Autumn.

In the meantime, we are organizing teleworking with all our students. Here are some resources and hints in that purpose :

1. How to make a proper film review at home : download the worksheet we used during the cinema festivals. The students can watch a film of their choice and write its review using this document. 

Remember: don't spoil the film in your review, concentrate your summary on the beginning of the film! Also, be careful to make the difference between what is a good actor and what is a good character. You may read examples of other students' film reviews here.

2) In addition to the previous document, on the image below, you can see how to connect the five film categories of the E-STAFF (Best Film, Best story, Filmmaking, Acting and Cultural Heritage) to the various cinema vocabulary and skills we studied in class, during the cinema festivals and during the whole filmmaking process. Students can use this image to compare different films or film extracts they watched, make a ranking of those films and justify this ranking.

3) Students can also watch a good youtube channel about cinema history and/or criticism. Here is Le Fossoyeur de Films (in French) but there are many others...! Example with "La Peur au Cinéma" (Fear in Cinema) which evokes, for instance, German expressionist cinema - but not only - with a lot of humor, explaining lots of cinema notions and techniques :

4) They can finally shoot a report about their life in confinement, speak of their daily routine, to share with their friends and develop their editing skills... For those who don't have an editing software, it is possible to edit videos online with Adobe Spark. But there is also open-source and free software on the internet.

FRA#22 - Second Partner Meeting in Bernalda

Last year, the first Partner Meeting of the project had taken place in France. This year, the Partner Meeting took place in Bernalda, Italy, from September 30 to October 3. The meeting was a success and allowed all the partners from France, Spain (Manresa and Cuenca), Italy, Poland and Bulgaria to set up the second year of the E-STAFF project.

Here is a short video summary of this event :

Souvenir video made by Patrizia, the local coordinator :

FRA#20 - E-STAFF year#1 closing ceremony

We organized an official closing ceremony on June 26th at the Castle of Deomas, Annonay, to screen our film "A Journey to Save the City" and some of the video reports we made during this first year of E-STAFF. We invited parents, students, teachers, political representatives and to all the people who helped us. There were about 100 people in the convention room of the castle, which was really hot !

Here is a short video recap showing the first year of the project from the French side, month after month, from September 2018 to June 2019. It was screened to open the ceremony.

Enjoy your summer holidays, and see you in September !

FRA#1 - First Partner Meeting

The first partner meeting of the E-STAFF project took place from October 8th to October 11th in the Collège les Perrières in Annonay, France.

This partner meeting involved all the project coordinators and the English teachers as well as other key teachers from the different partner schools' teams, in order to start the project and discuss its main goals. 

The partners also got into practical activities regarding cinema and regarding English learning, to develop ways of including cinema and increasing drama skills during language classes. 

The main goals of the E-STAFF project

 

The practical activities that were dedicated to cinema learning took place on the afternoon of the second day. During that time, the partner teachers had to produce short videos on the theme of suspense. These were the results for each partner group:

On the third day, the training focused on the behind-the-scenes videos of the project, to be made in English, in order for the students to develop the use of digital tools through a video correspondence at a European level.  Different themes were presented to the teachers regarding the behind-the-scene films:

Suggestions of topics for the "Behind-the-scenes" films

The final day of the partner meeting was kept for discussion and decision-making time. After that, all came back home, ready to start the project with their students. Lights, camera, action !

Final day of the partner meeting