Use these activities in sequence or feel free to select individual activities to meet student needs.
Use these activities in sequence or feel free to select individual activities to meet student needs.
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Prior Learning: Thinking about movie making words
Prior Learning: Thinking about movie making words
Who has heard this phrase before? What does it mean?
Share your ideas.
What other famous phrases do you know?
What do you think these words mean?
Pre-Production
Production
Post-Production
Marketing
Create your own One-Shot Movie
Create your own One-Shot Movie
Choose your topic like Late for school, Kind acts, or Sharing toys.
You have one minute to tell a story: What will you show?
At some point, all actors in your movie must the in the scene.
Will you shoot inside or outside?
Use Tracking Shot / Crab Walking to follow your character(s).
Add a title/music/credits.
Identifying Shot Types
Identifying Shot Types
Shot Types
Take your own photo for each of our shot types.
Collate your photos in Google Slides. Remember to name your file Shot Types [your name]
Don't forget to name your shots!
Share your Google Slides on your Edublog.
Create a storyboard that matches this scene from the Little Rascals. Make sure you identify the different shots used.
Once you have finished your storyboard, give it to someone else to try and film it. Once you have finished filming we will edit it and see how close we got to the original.
Extra for experts
Think about using greenscreen to recreate the setting and locations.
Watch this scene from Napoleon Dynamite: What different shots are used to show the dancer? Why does the film cut to the audience?
Create a storyboard that matches this scene. Once you have finished your storyboard, give it to someone else to try and film it. Once you have finished filming we will edit it and see how close we got to the original.
Extra for experts
Think about using greenscreen to recreate the setting and locations.
Quick cuts Montage
Quick cuts Montage
Recreate this scene of Scott Pilgrim getting ready. Use your camera and actors motion to highlight what is essential for your character when getting ready.
What is an everyday thing that you could make funny in this scene?
What do you have at school that you could use?
Extra for experts
Add movement to each of your shots making sure you match the movement at the end and start of each shot.
Storyboarding
Storyboarding
Storyboards for Animations
When writers start animations and films they first draw storyboards. Look at this video and see if you can work out why some objects are green/blue/red. What does that tell the director?
Use different types of shots in a short film
Use different types of shots in a short film
Your character is made happy by something
2 Mid shots
2 Close ups
1 Reverse shot
1 worms eye view shot
Your character is made sad by something
1 Long shot
1 Close up
1 Mid shot
1 Extreme Closeup
1 birds eye view shot
Your character has to rush to get somewhere in time
1 long shot
2 Mid shots
1 closeup
1 tracking shot
Stopmotion Animation
Stopmotion Animation
SPS_Agnew_StolenPrincess.mp4The Illusion of Movement
Set your camera up so it doesn't move
Get the object(s) you want to animate
Set up your scene
Film your sequence
Try different camera angles
Watch it back and remove any unwanted hands or feet
Greenscreen Challenge
Greenscreen Challenge
Action hero/heroine challenge
1) Search Google for a free-to-use image of:
a scary dragon OR
a snowboarder zooming down a mountain OR
hot lava in a volcano OR
a tornado coming at you.
2) Save it to your photo reel.
3) Film yourself for 20 seconds in front of the green screen, acting like you were really in the background you chose.
4) Add it all to iMovie, following the instructions in the video (right).
Combine different Film Techniques
Combine different Film Techniques
WPS_Lavakula_TeManurewaWatch this student movie:
What different techniques can you identify?
What techniques will be useful for your Film Festival entry?
Khan Academy: Pixar in a Box
Khan Academy: Pixar in a Box
Pixar in a Box is a behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs. You will be able to animate bouncing balls, build a swarm of robots, and make virtual fireworks explode. The subjects you learn in school — math, science, computer science, and humanities — are used every day to create amazing movies at Pixar.
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