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RESEARCH PROJECT - FILM CLUB

ANGIE GRISALES – ISABELLA CARVAJAL

10 B

COLEGIO COMFENALCO QUINDIO

Question :
How to promote the cinema through film club In ninth and tenth grade?

Problem:

The students of Comfenalco school of ninth and tenth grade haven't had any kind of

engagement with the film environment nor the representation of cult films in their lives.

However, this project could solve this problem with our hypothesis

Hypothesis:

Create a film club where in company of the project "medios escolares" would interact with

the students in many ways like: access to multiple films rich in culture and history, film

debates, activities, among other things that would help students to connect with the rest

people and create a film bond between them. The strategies the project is presenting are:

forums, activities made after watching the movie making an interesting chat among the

members, the debates also take part but in a specific topic when there’s many points of

view. Also, have a democracy about the film choices.

Introduction:

The project tenders an alternative through the cult films, which would encourage students

to watch cult films in a different way, letting them to think individually and allowing them

to unfold thoughts about the films. Let the students question the script, cinematography, the

soundtrack, or by discussing why they liked it. In addition, this possible initiative could

help students to interact with the other people related in the film club, by sharing their

opinions about how the acknowledgement is perceived in each movie. The film club isn’t

mandatory, it is just for passionate film people or people who are interested in the subject.
The project wants to encourage people to join the club, but with the magic of really

appreciating the films, not watching them only for entertainment.

General objectives:

To corroborate the lack of culture the community in Comfenalco quindio from the ninth

and tenth grade has regarding the cult films.

Specific objectives:

- To divulge through a film club different strategies like debates, forums and a post-

chat feedback after watching the movie to generate culture about the cult films.

- To scan towards surveys and interviews the community of comfenalco school,

specially, tenth-ninth grade and teachers. By Having a base which can be used as

statistics for general knowledge about the community of school regarding the

culture of films.

- to prompt with the help of campaigns such as visual guidance, talks and readings

the exploration of the cult films and generating in the community a light of interest.

The SDG selected was number 4

References

F. C. C. P. (2015). Cine, crítica y educación: Cómo puede favorecer la crítica a la

enseñanza del cine en la escuela. Red Cine Club Escolar.

https://bibliotecadigital.mineduc.cl/bitstream/handle/20.500.12365/17200/cine-critica-y-

educacion.pdf?sequence=1
This article is about the importance that cinema has on scholar facilities. Also how a film

club can generate different goods to the students such as: moral, social, cognitive and

cultural knowledge.

Toro, H. (2009). CINE CLUB DE CALI: 39 años de existencia (Entrevista a Ramiro

Arbeláez). Nexus Comunicación

https://nexus.univalle.edu.co/index.php/nexus/article/download/858/981

This is an interview made to a member of the film club in Cali, Colombia in the year of

1971 where Andrés Caicedo, was the founder of it. This man explains the importance that

cinema has in people for showing a problem in the culture, generating doubts and interest in

people who are not even that interested in movies. Everyone can enjoy the films watching

them from different points of view, evolving the viewer in the actual problems.

-Riza, Akhmad (2015) On Understanding Cult Films: A Literatures Review,

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Akhmad-Riza-Faizal/publication/

281287378_On_Understanding_Cult_Films_A_Literature_Review/links/

55dfc40d08ae2fac4719003d/On-Understanding-Cult-Films-A-Literature-Review.pdf?

origin=publication_detail

This pdf is useful because it shows the cult films through the years and the load that it has

in the social and literal aspects. Also how the cult films can make a difference in the

understanding of the actual society and the culture impact it has on us. l
Havis, Allan ( 2008) Taboo and Transgression,

https://books.google.es/books?

hl=es&lr=&id=Ljqd46l0aXkC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=cult+films&ots=FfNoATHVwn&si

g=QuYEUml_gzEjSq59PP2GGd2hKcs#v=onepage&q=cult%20films&f=false

This text explains the taboo that cult films have had for 9 decades. Also makes a review of

the cult films of the last decades, representing the most known movies from that time. This

is really helpful for our project, for understanding deeply the anatomic ambiguity in cult

films.

Kaul, V. (2014). Representation of social issues in films. Madhya Pradesh Journal of

Social Sciences,

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE

%7CA436230259&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=0973855X&p

=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Edd871711

This is a statement made about the acknowledgement of culture in the films. How they

integrate the absolute traditions in many perspectives and places. We want to encourage

people from our Film club to know more about the different cultures, and what is more

effective than a visual source.

Tanja, Thomas (2019). Media and participation in post migrant societies.

https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&lr=&id=s-

TaDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA61&dq=representation+culture+in+films&ots=CCHAO

MNopp&sig=Qo6WsnldBL2jg34jRBuE93hfKs4#v=onepage&q=representation%20culture

%20in%20films&f=false

This text discusses the influence of cinema on migrants, making them feel included in

society. The movies have helped people from different countries to feel good with

themselves regarding their situation of migrants and how society excludes them from the

world and the basic stuff.

-Long, B.S. (2017), Film Narratives and Lessons in Leadership: Insights From the Film &

Leadership Case Study (FLiCS) Club. J Ldrship Studies. .

https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21498

It mentions the leadership obtained by each person through a film club. Our film club also

wants to encourage the students to listen and to talk properly, to let their thoughts be found

by their mates and to enjoy the environment of the films with a good talk and a good

movie.
Arguments Literal review

The importance of cinema in the school environment has been demonstrated in many

schools that have implemented the film club as a tool to enhance students' knowledge and

also generate culture among the students. For that reason, The film club has shown its

effectiveness in the social, cognitive, emotional and cultural fields. As part of the project

we want to implement the film club in Comfenalco school in the ninth and tenth grade

community to amplify the culture among the students, to increase the social bonds and to

boost their criticism not only for movies but also for their lives.

One accurate example of the implementation of film club in an educative community is the

film club made by the National Cineteca of Chile that has corroborated the advantages of

implementing a cinematographic tool to the students, generating positive effects on them

such as criticism in a social base, this is what the article says:

“The critical capacity of viewers is key to moral and social education through cinema,
since it allows them to make value judgments regarding the events they see and incorporate
them into their own lives.” (Red Cine Club Escolar. 2015)

The students of ninth and tenth grade are in a phase where the personality is being

constructed, therefore, the cinema would be a window into real life and the unknown events

that are in the corner. In addition, the films would be a source of empathy by starting with

the characters and transforming into real-life events that would help the students be more

sensitive.

Based on the article it can be perceived that the tool is

adequate for putting in action, bonding with the hypothesis of the project, that is creating a

film bond among the students. In the same way, keeping with a similar cinematographic

structure in educational environments, there is one example closer that is of the university

of Cartagena which shows that is related to the results shown in the Chilean cineteca, this is

what the author emphasizes:

"(...) since the cinema appeared in Cartagena, the student and teacher population has been
exposed to a series of knowledge as a result of its appearance through the window of the
world, constituted by the screens of the neighborhood movie theaters. We speak of an
explosion of knowledge because institutional education assumes a rational-enlightenment
matrix, while learning in front of the media assumes a symbolic-cultural matrix. Both types
of knowledge converge in the practical affairs of life". (Universidad de cartagena, 2012)

As the author of the university says, the implementation of a film club also influences in the

daily life, results from the criticism that the film club offers to the students, their
personality would be constructed on bases of good crits and a high-thinking process to

analyze patient and correctly the circumstances that the life prepends.

Besides, the author establishes that the union between the reasoning of the standard

education and the cultural references of the cinematographic media can emerge into a more

productive and effective instrument. This is because the information is better processed

with a visual and hearing stimulus guided by the theoretical bases our brain has, thanks to

the references already seen or read.

In terms of cognitive intelligence is important highlight the following quote:

“At the same time, it allows developing the human capacity of perception and educating
sensitivity, since it uses the senses, emotions and conscience to value what is perceived.”
(Red Cine Club Escolar. 2015)
“Films provide us with a unique perspective from which to view society and culture. Films
are important sociological and cultural documents that influence our perceptions of both
the past and the present.” ( Madhya Pradesh Journal of Social Sciences, 2014)

The intellect is developed thanks to the influence of the conscience, nurturing the students'

individual perception. The cinema is not only used as a way of entertainment but also for a

way of changing perspectives.

The culture in our project aside from the social and cognitive processes is indispensable,

that is why the implementation of cult films would make the cultural path deeper. Then, it

is important to know the meaning or at least the qualification of a cult film. According to an

article, this is the definition the project finds allied:

“Cult films are secular documents, celebrated as sacred texts by audiences and used as
shared foci to collectively create rituals and belief systems. They differ from popular re-
releases, fad films, films with cult qualities, and critical cult films in that they involve
typical people in atypical situations, sympathetic deviance, challenges to traditional
authority, reflections of societal strains, and paradoxical and interpretable resolutions.”
(Toward a Sociology of Cult Films: Reading “Rocky Horror.” The Sociological Quarterly,
1992).
Regarding the amount of culture the cult films have, it is important for the students to

appreciate the existence of these peculiar movies, that have lived in the mind of creators

and filmmakers for years and will continue to preserve in the structure and reference, not

only in the movies but also in the literature, art, music, etc. Eventually, learning about

concepts and patterns that this kind of films manage, would create in the students a light of

interest, also, the constant search of references in movies, would create an interesting loop

of magnificent artworks.

Despite the fact that thinking of this big process, would make the reader think that the

creation of a film club is only for students who have a kind of engagement with the cinema.

However, that is not the intention of the project, the principal receptors of the project could

be students that do not have a close relation with the cinema or even do not have it at all,

but, with the projection of the movies would awake that interest in the way a movie can

change their points of view.

“Sports needs were not met by the Cine Club: I believe that the need it met was of a social
and cultural nature. It offered them a setting, first of encounter and second of cultural
nourishment through the films they watched, through the texts they collected to read later.”
(referring to the athletes that would enter the film club without any film interests).

“But I was specifically referring to the fact that they were diverse audiences who found
there a channel that allowed them to enjoy a part of culture that they valued, that seemed
important to them, but also with which they were entertained and enjoyed. There was also,
of course, the social fact of meeting their peers there.” (nexus comunicacion, 2009).
As the authors mention different students that are not directly related to the cinema, they

enjoy their approach that they have with the film club. Leads to integrate students

unaffiliated with the movies into a cinematographic environment where they can enjoy the

culture and knowledge the films offer.

METHODOLOGY

According to the objectives of our project and the problem we got, the conclusion is that we

need a mixed methodology that contains quantitative and qualitative, because it needs to

have closed questions to extract different and general results, but also needs open questions

to really dive into the student's point of view. In addition, there’s a need of doing the survey

to at least 30 students from the grades of ninth and tenth grade (8 people per group) so if

the final project that is the film club is made, people would enter it. The idea is to have 10

questions in total, 5 in the beginning and 5 in the end, the progress would be watched

throughout the whole project. As the project wants very specific and also open questions,

the project would select 6 quantitative questions and 4 qualitative questions to make a

successful study. The information we need respecting the study is: the information they

have about cult films, the information they have about a film club, how many movies they

watch monthly or weekly, which type of movie they are interested in, from 1-10 how much

did they like the cult film (respecting if they went to the film club), if they think that a film

club could be a good tool of learning, from 1-10 the rating they give to the traditional films,

which is their favorite movie, at the moment of watching a movie the viewer recognize the

soundtrack, the actors, the director, etc, why do they watch movies?
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