Thanks to Miss Whorlow, we were very lucky to welcome in Scott and Belle in association with the Scottish Youth Film Festival, promoting all aspects of film making with the P6/7 pupils across all the schools in the trio!
We spent the first half of the day exploring the theory behind film making,. Pupils learned about different genres of films, the purpose of film in evoking different emotions in us and different roles in making a film! (editor, director, producer, film crew, animators, actors of course…) There are 3 core ‘C’s and ‘S’s in film;
Camera Story
Characters Sound
Colour Setting
The pupils had to put their senses to good use by listening to movie clip sounds and trying to place what could be happening – clues to the setting and explore the different emotions it made them feel. We also explored other film clips (famously Star Wars!) to see how these 6 aspects of film are put to use in this clip and their importance.
We look at character development, different shots you can get in film and put our knowledge to the test in a quiz at the end! This brought the theory part of the day to an end and then pupils proceeded to get stuck in…
Pupils split into different groups to undertake their own filming challenged. Using iMovie on the iPad’s, each group was given a word to try and evoke in their own short film. Pupils had to think of what kind of shot they would use for this and put together their film so others could guess their word!
This gave them a great opportunity to get a bit more creative and hands on using iMovie to edit together different clips! Definitely something we will be using moving forward.
We cannot thank Belle and Scott enough for making the long journey down to us to deliver this session with the pupils! Pupil’s already raved at the end about what a good time they had and it’s been a great chance to continue to develop their STEM skills and perhaps even promote a career in film making! We may have young Speilbergs with us yet…?!
