10 MINUTES TO FILM FESTIVAL.
1. On the scrap paper you are given, you have 1 minute to make a list of things you enjoy.
2. Then you have 1 minute to make a list of causes you care about (i.e. animal shelters, cancer research, volunteer firefighting, etc.)
3. Take 1 minute to make connections between the items in your list of things you enjoy and the list of causes you care about.
4. You then have 7 minutes to choose three films you would show in a film festival based on a theme of your choice based on your two lists above.
What's a film festival? Take a look at any of these these examples:
http://www.sundance.org/pdf/film-guide/SFF14-FilmGuide.pdf
http://fantasticfest.com/
http://www.miff.org/
http://allsportslafilmfest.com/
http://www.festival-cannes.com/en.html
MAKING MOVIE MAGIC HAPPEN.
After recreating that scene to develop a sense of how it all “works” in a finished product, use your skills to tell the following story. Create a storyboard through still photography and turn it into a slideshow to place in your Pop Culture IN folders and share on your blogs.
Choose and recreate the camera angles to the best of your abilities from the following sources:
Great tool because it shows you examples from actual films
Several great examples of storyboarding at work
OUT OF CLASS WORK.
BLOG Post 1: Top 100 Film Scene Recreation.
Post your scene recreation on your blog.
Compose a written, audio or video explanation of your scene recreation in which you discuss:
* The original scene and why you chose it
* Challenges you encountered and how you overcame them and/or how you failed to overcome them
* What you learned about the challenges of filmmaking through this creative exercise
BLOG Post 2: Making Movie Magic Happen.
Post the storyboard/film on your blog.
Compose a written, audio or video explanation of your storyboard in which you discuss:
*Your intentions behind each shot in your storyboard -- even if they are are not as successful as you would have liked them to be
* Challenges you encountered and how you overcame them and/or how you failed to overcome them
* What you learned about the challenges of filmmaking through this creative exercise
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