We had an awesome day. It made me feel happy because I got to meet really famous people like Theo Stevenson (Ethan) from All Stars. I was interviewed too which was great since no one has done that before ! I have been ‘Leonardo’ and I will leave you with two photos .
Here’s a record of our day at the Vue Cinema, Leics Square on November 8th 2013 for the Award Ceremony of the National Youth Film Festival. It was a very special event and our film came 2nd! This is an amazing achievement and our group should be very proud. Hopefully we’ll get a post or a comment or two from our crew about what happened and how it felt…
Well, it looks like we’re all off to Vue Cinema in Leicester Square tomorrow to see our film in lights! We are shortlisted in the ‘Short Film Award’, and came in the top 3 out of 500 people who entered for the award!
NYFF sends us a very special email – telling us that we’ve been nominated in the Primary category for short film entries! Wow!
Looks like we’re all off to Vue Cinema, Leicester Square on Friday 8th November. We’re one of 3 nominations. Here’s part of the email notification.
Hoping DJess can make it from her other school!
Wish us luck!
Michelle goes to Barcelona to visit a school and see how they teach film in primary classes. She takes advantage of the moment to screen ‘Run School Run!’ to the Year 6 class. As it has no dialogue and the story is told simply through action, sound and camera placement it is very well received. This is our first international screening!
We begin to look at how the animation in our last session – The Big Match – is designed and how it illustrates the voice-over story. We write some things down to do with colour, setting, story and sequence. Here are some of the things we notice in the first 40 seconds of the film:
Then we split up – each with an iPad and headphones – to watch, pause and scroll through the rest of the movie to pick up other design techniques for their own ‘making of a memory’.
Here are other design elements we notice from the film:
And more:
Clara finishes early and goes to another room to record and then re-record her own story using Garageband. She’s brought a tiger soft toy with her to start collecting things to help tell the story of a trip to Dublin Zoo with her family.
Leonardo has brought a video he made on his phone – of him telling his story – but we have problems getting it off the phone. We’ll try again next week by blue toothing or using a cable.
Wizard 23 has also brought something in to share – his first football shirt. Mr. P is going to keep this safe till next week when we will have time to listen to his story and take photos.
Thanks to Nimbus for helping to set up the iPads with some efficient QR code scanning so that everyone had easy access to the clip … and then putting all the iPads away at the end!
We look at turning words into ideas into images/symbols using an app called Adobe Ideas. The idea is to use words taken from the Tagul/Wordle images and then draw on different layers to produce a pattern or graphic that represents The Clip Club. One of the things to understand about being creative is that you’re putting new things together in ways that haven’t been seen before. This activity leads onto more creative play and here is what we came up with:
Using layered moving images (and sound) to illustrate a story is what we then watch in this animation called The Big Match about a young Belfast lad who goes for a memorable day out with his Dad:
We talk about how the film makes us feel. Some say sad, weird. Leonardo says something very insightful – that the film is an inspiration because you realise that it’s possible to illustrate a story with interesting moving images whilst listening to someone telling the story. So you don’t just have to listen, like on the radio, you can listen and watch at the same time. We also talk about what poignant means … something about sadness and importance. Cara makes a connection between the layers we saw in the film and the layers we looked at in the Ideas app.
Michelle asks everyone to come next week with a story of their own and perhaps an object, so we can begin to make our own memorable stories on the iPad using some of the techniques in The Big Match.
I think we did an excellent job on our film ‘Run School Run’! The way we crafted the ending scene was inspiring to the whole school. The amount of comments I got from my class alone was brilliant! I think we worked together wonderfully to finish the film, and we all did a good job in making it look good (even us behind the camera)!
Here are more Wordle and Tagul graphics using the words of Gman, Wizard23 and Dual2 when they were asked to comment on last term’s Clip Club. We’ll be using these in the next session.
Hi guys, Nimbus here.
Just wanted to say that we are using iPads (they are SO cool)! Michelle is installing IOS 7 and a nifty little bit of software called ‘Explain Everything’. More on that next week.
I have copied these words from the Film Festival site. A Film Club is defined as more than one young person meeting regularly to watch, discuss and/or make film together for young people aged 5-19 years in the UK.
What makes a good film club?
There is no one way to run a successful club and there are lots of different ways that this can be measured. It is key that young people receive a rich experience of film. A combination of one or more of the following would be deemed a great club:
- Integrating watching, making and understanding film in the club
- Interesting film choices
- Inspirational leaders
- Inspirational members
- Regular and consistent membership
- Regular screenings
- Regular reviewers
- Making a difference to the lives of members (including young people with disabilities, behavioural problems, poor attendance or poor engagement with learning
- Running a successful club in an otherwise challenging setting
- Skill development
There are 2 questions that need to be answered – 100 words max for each question:
What makes your club great?
Why should your club win this award?
The Clip Club 