Movie Making with Harley

Today we had Harley the movie man come and work with Team Awa. 

First, we watched a movie called 'incoming call' that Harley had produced.  It took him 3 months to make it.  We were watching it to learn even more about movie angles and shots.  It had a really interesting storyline.

We learned about 'Camera language'

Director says:  "quiet on set"

Camera person:  "Camera speed"

Sound person says:  "Sound Speed"

Clapper person says; "Rob and Kelly. Take 1"

Director says:  "Action"

We looked at how a movie also has a script for its characters and that the angles we use when capturing our movies add to the effect.  This was great to reinforce what we already started learning last term.  

Harley talked to us about how every story has a beginning, middle, and end.  He related that back to our movies and how every movie you made needs to have this too.  He told us that if your movie is 3 minutes long, the first 1 min should be for the beginning, the next minute for the middle, and the last minute for the end.

We got to have a play with some of his gear including the clapper which was lots of fun.  We used boom mikes so we could capture the sound closer to the action.  

After that Harley worked with us in small groups to catch up with what our movie storyboards and scripts looked like.  He was really impressed at the through we were going into and had lots of positive feedback for us all.

Thanks for coming again, Harley.  It's always fantastic to have you.

Rainbowfish Friendship learning

In Class we have been working on a shared book called Rainbow fish.  This is a story that many of us knew but one that has lots of messages, and a lot of these relate to friendships, learning how to work with others, share and resolving issues proactively.  We did lots of talking about these messages and about friends themselves and we will create a class treaty based on many of these ideas.  This is alway a great way to start back at school when were have new people in our class and we are all learning how to work with each other again after a long Christmas break.

Below are a few videos that students created based around Rainbow Fish and some of the learning they were doing.

Movies - Term 3

In Team Awa some groups have been making movies. These 3 movies were shared in our school movie judging. Unfortunately we didn't get in the top 3 but we are proud of these children. We started with a brainstorming session to get ideas of what our movies would be about. Then each group made a story board to plan out their movie. They had to write their script and decide what part they would play. Here are our 3 finished movies, there are still a few more to finish.

Project Island Song

Last term some of us were lucky enough to go to Otehei Bay with Project Island Song. We had a great day learning about how they trap pests to protect the native birds on the islands around the Bay of Islands (Ipipiri). Here are a couple of movies the children made after the trip.

Imovie (made by Piata)

Stop Motion made by Buster, Cameron and Taylor using the traps we made on the island. 

Stop Motion made by Piata, Heidi and Hayley using Lego, showing a few things we did on the day.

Screencastify of a Google slide animation made by Tanner. Tanner worked very hard on this at school and at home. Well done Tanner.

 

Movie Making

Last term we made movies about our environment topic. The children got to choose how they shared their learning. Here are some of our movies.

Kate and Kayla - 1 News rubbish

Plastics movie made by Harley and Andrew using Green Screen.

Song written by Heidi, performed by Pauline and Hayley

Kate and Kayla - Kauri Die-back

Don't drop your rubbish. Written by Emmanuel, Harry, Kyle and Joe

Imovie about rubbish made by Ella, Jayme and Te Marama