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About Performance & Media Arts (PMA)
WHAT IS PRODUCTION?
Production is a unit within Performance and Media Arts (PMA) where students learn foundational movie-making skills and practice collaboration and negotiation in group and all-class settings. Students worked on their media skills throughout their years at SGS: including 5th Grade Comic-Con Culmination, 6th Grade Avatar Project, and 7th Grade Photography, Audio, and Music Video Units. Then, in the Fall term, 8th graders worked on individual and group videos and participated in Intensives’ Filmmaking Bootcamp, where they made many short films and honed their technical skills, and in Advisory class, they learned about consensus decision-making processes.
Student media makers enhanced their skills with a speciality role on their Production Crew although they supported all aspects of film creation. They practiced screenwriting, props and costume maintenance, logistics management, budget management, equipment use & safety, cinematography with DSLR cameras, and editing with online software collaborative editing.
This culmination is called “Production” intentionally because the process of completing the film is just as important as the final product. They attempt to put into practice all they have learned at SGS about flexibility, communication, and teamwork from start to finish. This began with choosing specialty roles or key managerial roles, plot creation, genre choice, character development, and collaborative storyboard making and ending with the final SGS culmination project of their SGS career. These are skills that they will have a lifetime to practice, learn, hone, and revise since they are core 21st-century skills connected to high school and college, as well as future work and career. We hope they will reflect on this experience and continue to grow these skills in the years to come.
Special Gratitude to the following:
Luzviminda Uzuri "Ms. Lulu" Carpenter, Executive Producer, Performance & Media Arts (PMA) Teacher & 8th Grade Advisor
8th Grade Advisors, Profe, Brook, and Bre for All Day Film Day & Day of Culmination Faculty Support and emotionally supporting our students throughout the process.
Maddie (Learning Specialist) for academic and emotional support of our students
Maya Arias for organizing 8th Grade SGS Family Association (SFA) Production Volunteers.
Emma Louisa & Belle Brown - for SGS Front Desk support aka telling us to be quiet, telling us when guests are coming, providing first aid kits and med bags, and more.
Mt. Baker Community Club for an educational discount for the All Day Film Day venue rental.
Revolutionary Staging for an educational discount for a stage.
Erin Keyes, Rick Eberhardt, Sarah Rafton, Sandra Nanney - All Day Film Day Volunteers
Rick Eberhardt for being the Master Icecream Scooper & Post-Show Ice-cream Volunteer Wrangler
Dionne Malatesta - Snack Support!
April Lorenzo - loaning car for filming and ride support
Ms. Miryam (Dean of Students & Faculty & Phelana (Assitant Head of School) - for all their support with Movie Ratings reviews and other institutional support.
MOVIE PROMO POSTERS
The Lunch Table
The Lunch Table
By: Koolaid Productions
By: Koolaid Productions
Shoreside Showdown
Shoreside Showdown
By: Banana Boat Productions
By: Banana Boat Productions
Rolling with the Tide: A Journey Through Alabama
Rolling with the Tide: A Journey Through Alabama
By: Big AL Productions
By: Big AL Productions
Spicy Boys: A Road to Stardom
Spicy Boys: A Road to Stardom
By: Heartburn Productions
By: Heartburn Productions
Primary Goals of Production
1) Work collaboratively to create class legacy movies
2) Acquire and practice video production skills
3) Collaborate, negotiate, and compromise in small groups and entire class to reach a consensus
4) Collaborate and create screenwriting scripts based on plot graphs
5) Practice table reads or read-throughs and make storyboards onset directing and filming
6) Use DSLR cameras with tripods and dollies for steady and creative shots and angles
7) Navigate Google Docs (writing, logistics, budgeting, and filming schedule)
8) Collaborate on WeVideo editing and integrate peer feedback
9) Learn how to use cinematography skills such as types of shots and camera angles to tell a story
Production Process
• Create Production Groups and Producer lead roles
• Vote on the type of movie (all classes or cores only)
• Producers lead class sessions, team meetings, and organize main logistics
• Create and vote on overarching themes, plots, and
• Develop characters & write a screenplay
• Screenwriting and table-read throughs
• Editing scripts from feedback, create storyboards, and film scenes
• Schedule shoot logistics & plan an all-day film day
• Learn director cues
• Edit footage and incorporate peer feedback
• Check for continuity
• Begin the process again...write, practice, film, and edit...
• Make a movie trailer for Community Meeting
• Collect bloopers
• Make premiere posters
• Main Editors finish last edits
• Ms. Lulu renders the films to be played at Honor's Assembly and Culmination
• Students host Honors Assembly and Culmination with students, families, community, and friends with a Q&A
What Should You Look for During the Culmination?
• Opportunities for communication, collaboration, and critical thinking
• Individual strengths (screenwriting, directing, cinematography, acting, editing, etc.)
• Video editing (practice using transitions, cut-aways, etc.)
• Cinematography (look at the different angles and shots that were utilized: i.e. bird's eye, worm's eye, establishing shots, close-ups, medium shots, full body shots)
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