Here is our progress on the documentaries
What have we done so far? Check out below to see our the process we are following in our learning about documentaries.Definition- What is a documentary?
Exemplars:
Here are exemplars of documentaries which included professionally made ones and student made ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_fJZsVYcjM Trailer onlyhttps://vimeo.com/122820646 Creative kids 6:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMpSk1UlTuE&disable_polymer=true What is Climate Change? 2.44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSJgsU4X9zQ&disable_polymer=true Science Fair
https://www.madeawards.com/?page_id=238 MADE Yr 7 & 8
https://www.madeawards.com/?page_id=236 MADE Yr 4- 6
https://www.madeawards.com/?page_id=234 MADE Year 1-3
Discussed features of these documentaries
http://www.documentarytube.com/articles/what-makes-a-good-documentary-film
Marking Criteria
We looked through the criteria for the MADE awards and this is where the inspiration for our learning came from. It showed all the things we need to learn about in order to meet this criteria e.g. camera angles, music etc...
Links
https://www.madeawards.com/pdfs/MADErubric.pdf
Here is the criteria.
We are using this as our guide!
Camera Angles:
Music
We watched an exemplar that showed an identical piece of film but with the music changed. How did the music change the feeling of the film? There are multiple examples here in this video.
Students collected examples of mood music. Students chose 5 emotions and collected music to represent these emotions. They saved the links to these in our shared Google drive so that we can all access each other's music at a later date if we wish.
Documentary film techniquesE.g reporters, interviews, cut-a-way clips, voice-overs, direct and indirect interviews, re-enactment, archival footage, montage, exposition, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film_techniques
Camera Angles:
Here are some resources to help us learn about camera angles/shots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0ouVBcogU 15 Essential Camera Shots
https://sites.google.com/site/theartoffilm1/camera-angles-and-shots Examples and definitions of different camera shots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5886yCsmrg Basic camera Shots and Angles
https://petapixel.com/2015/09/22/8-camera-angles-from-the-world-of-cinema-that-can-help-improve-your-photos/ Photo examples of camera angles
http://www.thewildclassroom.com/wildfilmschool/gettingstarted/camerashots.html Camera shots examples and definitions plus rule of thirds
Using Camera Angles with photography:
Students recreated these camera angles and shots in a group and then individually.
Used the camera angles and shots to create a photo story. This needed to tell a story with pictures with a beginning, middle and end.
View photo story by Jamie, Lily, Maia, Bonnie and Jaye here:
Group 1 Photo Story
View photo story by Connor, Frankie and Caleb here:
Music
Learned about the impact of music when added to film, in particular how music is used to elicit emotions.
We watched an exemplar that showed an identical piece of film but with the music changed. How did the music change the feeling of the film? There are multiple examples here in this video.
Students collected examples of mood music. Students chose 5 emotions and collected music to represent these emotions. They saved the links to these in our shared Google drive so that we can all access each other's music at a later date if we wish.
We shared one example from each student on Apple TV.
Combined learning- Music + Camera Angles
We used the Youtube video above as our inspiration.
Created a 30 second piece of footage which incorporates the camera angles edited in. This was the first time we had used camera angles in movie form rather than still form and therefore it meant small clips would need to be edited together in iMovie. Then students had to duplicate the video and add two different types of music.
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