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Filming Our Masterpieces: One Classroom's Journey to the iPadpalooza Film Festival

3/25/2015

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Right before Spring Break, we busted out the iPads and started filming. Within the class, we had a varitey of film genres being produced:one documentary and one narrative and multiple stop motion animations. Erin found a great app called iStopMotion for iPad and we bought just enough seats to make it possible for 2 or 3 students to share one iPad with the app on it. 

Filming continues on in this week after Spring Break. Here are some photos from our adventure. 

The students using iStopMotion found some really creative ways to set up their iPads to capture their clay, lego and paper creations. 

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Our narrative group got creative with their filming as well using playground equipment and an iPad tripod. 

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Lego stop motion animation. 

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iStopMotion App

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Day 3: One Classroom's Journey to the iPadpalooza Film Festival

3/5/2015

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Wednesday's class brought more learning from the Animation Chefs. Here is a link to their lessons on movie making. The Chefs use index cards for storyboarding purposes and we thought that made sense since it allowed students to rearrange the story in an easy to manage way. Once you have all of the pieces of the storyboard the next step is to decide where your camera will be for each shot. Here is the Chefs's suggestion for locations:
Long shots are for settings. 
Medium shots are for characters. 
Close ups are of emotions. 
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So on each index card, the students were to draw a picture of the scene, put a number in the top right corner of the card to indicate the card's position in the movie, and in the top left corner they were to put an L, M, or C representing the camera position. Completed storyboards are due at the end of the next class meeting. 


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One Classroom's Journey to the iPadpalooza Film Festival: Day 2

3/3/2015

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Day 2 started with a viewing of a couple of videos from the website, Animation Chefs. The videos were created by kids and shared tips on creating animation videos and on planning your video. One of their suggestions was to do some brainstorming before you even begin your storyboarding using a page divided into 3 parts like the one below. I like this idea because it gives students a storyline before they launch into video planning. 
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One Classroom's Journey to the iPadpalooza Film Festival

3/3/2015

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Day 1:

Erin Krieger and I started working today with her 5th Grade students on developing a concept for their iPadpalooza Film Festival Entries. We began by watching the winners from last year and having students comment on a Today's Meet about the strengths and weaknesses of those videos. 
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