Film commentary: Bottle
A touching short film about an impossible friendship.Snowman, a game that many children cannot get enough of. Why not suggest to the pupils of your class to make, like this stop-motion film, a volume animation with sand or snow, a story from photos?
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In her MEEF master thesis, Marjolaine Rouzeau analyses her experience with her class of nursery/middle section and wonders about the stakes and the pedagogical use of animation films based on the use of the film "BottleMarjolaine sets up three activities, a science activity on dissolution, an oral language activity:
"le goûter philo" on the theme of friendship, and a written language activity: a correspondence with the class of middle-aged children next to her class.
Questioning the film: Bottle
Understand the story, the theme, express your sensibility and exercise your critical thinking.The impossible friendship between a sandman and a snowman who correspond by throwing bottles into the sea. The film will be an opportunity to tackle the notion of message and the theme of communication.
Why do we communicate? How do we communicate? With whom?
Before the 20th century, sending messages took time, but nowadays we no longer have to wait several days for a reply. Does this change anything in our relationships with others?
To think about what a message is, what allows communication between sender and receiver, each child can draw a picture for another pupil in the class and write his or her first name (sender) and the name of the classmate for whom the picture is intended (receiver).
1 Who are the main characters in the film?
A sandman and a snowman.
2 What do they do in the film?
They communicate, establishing a correspondence by sending a bottle to the sea.
3 What do they communicate with? With words?With texts?
They do not communicate with words but with elements of their environment.
The snowman sends snow, pine needles... The sandman sends sand, seaweed, shells...
4 Why do the two characters try to communicate?
Maybe they are lonely?Perhaps they are looking for a friend?
5 What is the end of the film?
The two characters decide to meet for real and cross the sea as a merchant on the sea bed.Unfortunately, their nature does not allow them to stay in the water for long: they both dissolve.
6 Today, how do we communicate the most?
With phones, smartphones, emails but also social media (Facebook, twitter, Instagram...).
7 Whatisa sender and a receiver?
A sender is what sends a message and a receiver is what receives it.
Download PDF of the film's educational activities
Created with the support of the Ministry of Education and the CNC.Viewing of the film with the family, educational activities with parents at home and with teachers in class.
Making an experiment of dissolution (Questioning the world) (Cycle 1, 2 and 3)
Educational activities proposed by Marjolaine Rouzeau based on the film Bottle.
Establishing a correspondence (French) (Cycle 2 and 3)
Educational activities proposed by Marjolaine Rouzeau based on the film Bottle.
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Theme
civic educationGenre and keywords
Narrative, friendship, snowman, sandman, bottle to the sea, correspondence.Recommended age
3 yearsParental control.
Duration
5 min 25 sec.Title
BottleDirector
Kirsten LeporeProduction
2011
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