Week 1 summary

Our film

Do NOT feed the birds!

We're done with our first movie, finally! In the beginning we had a lot of ideas we wanted to try out. On completion of the "project" we realize that this movie isn't exactly very didactic and fit for teaching. On the other hand we've learned a lot about the process of making a video, from beginning to end. We have had great fun!

Importance of Storyboard

Wow!

We are completely surprised how important the use of storyboardinging is during the movie making process.

We have now discovered what a great tool it is for planning your resources, thinking about the film location and keeping an eye on where you are during the film making proccess.

For us as a group we found it really helpful when making the props for the film, it also helped us decide which scenes we could film and when.

In this way we do not need to film the film in sequence, we can do all of the scenes required within the studio at the same time and organize the tools required to carry them out, then go out on location and carry out the filming for the remaining scenes.

This proccess has meant we have been able to take a lot of extra shots which will hopefully use to make a film about making our movie and or some funny outtake scenes which could not be include in the educational video.

Look out for our next update!

"Experiment"

Had a great day experimenting with the storyline and trying out different film techniques. We also got to try out the editing software (we used Adobe Premiere) making this short movie from today:

Video analysis

We chose to anylize all of our videos and wanted to share theser four with you. each one based on it's individual merit. The Blair witch project was chosen because it is a great piece for helping children understand that sophisticated technology is not required to make an 'INTENSE' film!

We chose the news report about the Loch Ness Monster because of its composition, it has lots of great video features and many of the aspects that need to be considered before making a movie (setting, time, characters, style) however the result of seeing such a well produced film could end up the disappointing the students because they may not be able to reproduce the same quality.

The story about the spider and the turlte was interesting because of its moral content. 'Should we as teachers be encouraging a film that deals with revenge? Or was it actually about sharing with other?"

And then finally the film regarding 'Photosynthesis' is a great tool for differentiation, it enables student to learn through song and vision and is also cross curricular encompassing Music, Technology, Science, English and Math!

The Blair Witch Project - Apology scene

Context Rooms Diagram in Plain English!!!!!!

We discussed the content of the context rooms and felt it was a liitle bit confusing, we chose as a group to catagorize the rooms in the following way:

In each room we consider who is the producer and who is the receiver

The arrows show how the producer and receivers role change when for example:

• You make a film in the study room (you are both producer and receiver) when analysing in the assessment room (you become both the receiver and the producer).

• Or when produced in the project room and then used as a teaching tool for classmates in the classroom. The student presenting his video then becomes the "teacher" in the Classroom.

Have a nice day!