Storyboarding

Storyboarding your film festival film.

Last week I ran this toolkit on storyboarding to help other teachers in my cluster get started on their film making journey.  

So, you have an idea of what you want your film to be, but want help to plan what scenes to shoot, scripting, learn about camera angles and making your film look good on the big screen. 

Here are tips you can share with learners to empower them in the movie making process.

I really do hope you find the following links, tips and examples helpful in planning your class film.

Here is a basic storyboarding template I created to guide the planning process. In each box sketch the scene, where, who, angle, props etc.

Feel free to share it with your tamariki if you like. 

You'll also need these camera angles​ to get them thinking about the planning process. What and how to actually film what they want to film.

A great warm up activity is to watch some of ​2014 film festival's films and in groups get tamariki to discuss what camera angles were used, what was effective, and what was not so effective.

The following links are an index to my previous blogposts with tips for different types of filming and animation.

• Film making 101 tips
• ​Pukeko Animation - made using presentation - think 'flipbook'
• Make a song mashup - can use drawings or kids enacting lyrics also.
• Stop-Motion animation - lego, playdoh, drawings, figurines  

 

For stop-motion set up a tripod and get snapping. Import to iMovie, remove the 'ken burns' on images, change the time to .5 of a second (or less), add music, voiceovers and hey presto.

​Thanks, and comment below if you have any questions.

Regards

Stef

+Stephanie Parker

A Pokemon battle. Working with stop-motion animation.

A couple of weeks ago we learned about making stop-motion animation.
This is my video, as a result I also learned a lot about Pokemon, a big thanks to Matt Goodwin for that!
The photos were taken using a tripod, and digital camera, loaded into iMovie, then sound and voiceover added. Great fun, a lot of learning going on and best of all collaboration though our Learn Create Share paradigm.

Learning to Animate

This is an animation that I made in Google Presentation. As the students in my class know I am mildly obsessed with Pukeko's - hence choosing them for my character in this animation is not surprising. 

All up it is made of 79 slides. 
I used Keynote's 'instant alpha' to remove the white background from the pukeko image, then copy it into the slide show. 
I copied and shrunk/enlarged/cropped the pukeko to make the different characters, and each slide was made by copying the last, then adjusting the movements of each character, before copying it again for the next slide. 
Finally I published the presentation to web, then changed the html to adjust the time between slides to 200 down from 1000 or 3000. 
I must admit, I enjoyed making this a lot more than I expected.