Online Workshop 2 – Pre-Production

Pre-Production – principles into practice

Principles into practice (slides 1 – 3)

  • examples of the project in four schools (Peace School, UK; Chansing Elementary School, Taiwan, Herz Jesu Institut, Italy; Europa School, UK)
  • sharing the journeys of learning (filmmaking at the Peace School, UK and K’Sirs International School, India)

Film activities (slides 4 – 12)

  • voicing one’s opinion about favourite films
  • exploring emotions through facial expressions and sketches
  • exploring sound through animation and sketches
  • exploring sound in film (parts 1 – 4)
  • exploring lighting and three-point lighting

Project theme of ‘Care, Community and Hope’ (slides 13 – 14)

  • exploring content and the theme ‘Care, Community, Hope’ through picturebooks, film shorts, and local organisations (see picturebook resource created by Grit Bergner).
  • Three Words Activity with ‘Care, Community and Hope’

What makes a good multilingual digital story? (slides 15 – 21)

  • establishing criteria for what makes a good film
  • diamond nine activity to rank criteria for a good film
  • evaluating and reflecting on three examples of multilingual digital stories
  • student-generated criteria for a multilingual digital story on ‘care, community and hope’