VIDEO FOR EDUCATION

Video can be used in a wide variety of ways to help your school, local authority, MAT or educational organisation get your message across effectively and affordably.

Here are just a few of the videos we’ve made for our educational clients over the past few years. If you’d like us to come and talk to you about how video could be used to meet your aims and objectives, do get in touch with us at mail@seehearteach.com.

Innovation in video & interactivity

Harold Raitt, Director of SeeHearTeach, was nominated for a BAFTA for ‘TV Craft: Interactive Creative Contribution’ in 2009, for the Online Tour of the National Theatre which he produced with a small in-house team. The project had two core audiences:

pupils and teachers studying drama and STEM subjects in schools
audiences of all ages who’d like to know more about what goes on behind the scenes.

Harold also later created a similar Online Tour of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (best experienced on a tablet, laptop or desktop), offering insight into teaching and learning at this world-leading Conservatoire, and intended primarily as a promotional tool to attract applications to undergraduate and post-graduate programmes.

Promotional video
Online Tours of your school
Educational resources
Innovative approaches to video, interactivity and non-linear storytelling
UX and UI (Designing great user experiences and user interaces)

Promoting your programme or organisation

Video is a hugely powerful tool for helping people to get to know you quickly. A video such as the one above that we created for the PiXL Club and the Noisy Classroom’s Up for Debate programme gives an overview of all the key elements of the programme in just two and a half minutes. Voxpops with teachers and pupils make a powerful case for schools to join up.

Promotional video
Voxpops
Motion graphics and animation
Footage of classroom practice
Giving pupils and teachers a voice

A REPLACEMENT FOR TEXT-HEAVY DOCUMENTATION

Teachers in schools are bombarded with lots of Word documents and PDFs. A simple-but-compelling alternative is to get the people who are delivering your message to speak directly to their audience. The example above is from a suite of 20 films – all filmed in a single day, and edited in less than a day and a half – created for the English Speaking Board, who wanted their examiners to convey the key criteria for their oracy-focused exams.

online lessons & learning materials

Video can be a great way to give learners an overview of a new topic, or to recap some key ideas. The video above is one of a series of 12 ‘topics stimulus videos’ that we have created for the Up for Debate programme. They feature the two characters ‘Hugh de Syde’ (a quick-witted and objective journalist) and ‘Professor Ivan O’Pinion’ (a highly-knowledgeable, and also highly-opinionated academic). They’ve proved immensely popular and effective amongst their key audience of 11-14 year olds in schools across England.

INSIGHTS INTO EFFECTIVE TEACHING & LEARNING

Despite the boom in educational publishing, it remains immensely difficult to write down exactly what constitutes great teaching and learning. Video can provide a really strong sense of why a gifted practitioner’s teaching is effective, and what it looks like when pupils are really engaged. This video was filmed over the course of a weekend’s R&D into how radio drama could be used in the primary classroom.

Harold has over 15 years’ experience working with schools.

He ran the English Speaking Union’s London Debate Challenge from 2004-2007, establishing a culture of debate at Key Stage 3 in over a hundred schools across London. He then moved to the National Theatre, where he built up an in-house documentary filmmaking team as part of the theatre’s Education Department; he and his team were nominated for a BAFTA for TV Craft and their ‘Interactive Creative Contribution’ to the industry in 2009.

He founded SeeHearTeach in 2014 to provide affordable top-quality video and resources to the education sector.