Reflection on moviemaking

Dear Robin, Bailey, Quindell, Rolaysha, Kimber, Tashyana, Aniya, Deasia, and Darius,

Our digital video and moviemaking class is coming to an end in 2 weeks! So much has happened in these last 10 sessions. I hope you have enjoyed learning something new.

Here are 4 questions I would like you to think about and write some comments on:

1. What are 2 things you learned about shooting a video and turning it into a movie?

2. What are 2 things you feel you could do better if you had more time?

3. How has this moviemaking class affected you? Did it help you to learn something about yourself?

4. Are you comfortable using these moviemaking skills you have learned to create a movie on your own now? Why or why not?

Camera movements and storyboard tips

Hello class,

Tips on how to zoom:

Camera movements

Camera angles

Storyboard sample

Sample movies

Dear class,
Here is a large on-line repository of movies made by students (http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/). See what other people made.

About today 10/22/08

Hello class, it was nice to meet all of you today. I hope you learned something new today. Well, tell us a little about your learning experience today.

What are one or two things you learned today? Do you have any questions about the project? Feel free to respond here under comments.

See you on Tuesday.

Tell us about the movie you want to make

Yay! You're going to make a movie!

Well, here are some things to think about:

1. Your final movie should not be longer than 5 minutes. Yup, no more than that.

2. You work in pairs or trios to create one movie together.

3. What do you work on? You can create a movie to

• teach us or show us how to make something, like bake something, or do a science experiment, or play baseball, or make an art project ...
  
• tell us a story about someone special, your school, your community
• highlight a concern or issue in your local environment to promote awareness and public action
• share something about your culture - tell us something about your community/ethnic culture that is unique or special so that we can better understand it
  

* Something not mentioned here? Yes, tell us if you have some idea of your own that is not listed here, feel free to leave comments here or talk to us. We'll be happy to discuss it with you to help make it work.

Don't wait, start thinking about what you want to make a movie about soon, because you will start planning your movie in the second session.

What about lighting?

Find out a little about lighting here:

http://kidsvid.altec.org/making04.html

Want to watch those movie clips again?

Here are some sites to check out that were mentioned in class:

Movie samples:

http://www.schoolhousevideo.org/Pages/ElementarySamples.html

http://www.schoolhousevideo.org/Pages/ViewChanger.html

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie2/geometry/index.html


Types of camera shots: - great sites that show you about the different types of shots and angles

http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/cpt/projects/welcomeassignment/typesshots/camshots.html

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/

Enough for the day? :-) - yin

A Warm Welcome to Future Movie Directors and Producers

Hello everyone, we are really excited about learning on this program with all of you and can't wait for the kickoff this Wednesday, Oct 22. Are you waiting excitedly as well?

We have planned an interesting moviemaking project for you. We will be watching some nice movie samples made by other students, planning, learning to edit and make great movies together!