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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Josh - Here's My Post
I recently had my students participate in an in-class film festival. This is in preparation for the county film festival that is currently underway. Overall it was a good experience as the kids could see what all it takes to put together a movie... even one that is just five minutes long. The thing I mot liked was seeing the creativity that the kids exhibited. The thing that did not go well was shooting on campus. When you do a project like this, you need good costumes and sets. We didn't have any of that. The county film festival is done off-campus and gives them an opportunity to display skills in those aspects of production.
Josh,
ReplyDeleteYou have great ideas. I would love to take your class. This activity sounds very fun. Depending on how much notice you give your students, you may try to award bonus points or some other type of reward if they can be just as creative bringing in or making their own props or costumes. One requirement our school is implementing is the going cross curriculum. I guess where I'm going with this is to maybe meet with your Fine Arts Drama Teacher to see if you could merge this activity.
Anyway, I hope you keep creating such awesome ideas!!
I saw our kids at Kell doing that too. I think I was an extra in one of the groups project. We actually had a few scenes from a movie called "The Joneses" starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny filmed at our school last week. Cool opportunity for the kids to see all the equipment, etc.
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