Movie Making

Teaching Kids to Make Movies

Unit Overview

Lesson 1-Preproduction

• Intro: Show Student Videos
• Movie Making Book-Add parts of movie making process to graphic organizer

Lesson 2-Preproduction

• Discuss Documentaries
• Use Movie Maker Book to illustrate details of this movie genre

Lesson 3-Preproduction

• Choosing Movie Topics
• Brainstorming, voting, forming groups

Lesson 4-Preproduction

• Movie Themes
• Show clips to discuss
• Groups will decide on movie theme

Lesson 5-Preproduction

• Storyboarding
• Model using example movie clip
• Groups create storyboards

Lesson 6-Preproduction

• Groups create Task List
• Shot list, Locations, Interview list
• Divide tasks

Lesson 7-Production

• Begin tasks:
• Location scouting
• Interview List
• Interview Questions
• List of photos
• Choose movie trailer theme

Lesson 8-Production

• Continue filming
• Begin editing- importing photos & videos into movie project

Helpful Resource

Helpful Resource

Helpful Resource

Helpful Hints

• Hold iPad in landscape mode-ALWAYS!
• Use photos of typed text to add "voices" to your film

Helpful Hints for iMovie on iPad

• When movie/trailer project is finished, click share to Theater.
• To share your finalized movie from Theater, click share.
• Save as video will save your movie to the Photos on the iPad
• From there, you can log in to YouTube, Office 365, or any other place to upload your movie.
• Delete finished movies from your Photos after sharing/saving to another place, so the iPad storage doesn't fill up

Sharing Movies on Office 365

• Log in to O365
• Scroll to the right, click the Video Button
• Click Upload- at the top left
• Click the drop down to select your school
• Click Select Videos to Upload
• Click Photo Roll, Select video you want
• Type video name in the box
• No saving! You're done.

Helpful Websites

• http://www.minimoviemakers.com/index.html
• http://coolspotters.com/articles/the-mega-movie-making-guide-for-kids
• http://kidsvid.4teachers.org/nav_pages/teaching.shtml

Helpful Websites

• http://www.portlandchildrensfilmfestival.com/resources-for-young-filmmakers
• http://www.pbs.org/pov/behindthelens/lessonplan1.php
• http://www.teachertube.com/video/how-to-make-a-documentary-43818

Helpful Websites

• Schoolsofearth.org
• YouTube- Karen Kraeger
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZc0uD-JLA0AcKWFKb7Lho9RDyUt9P_Bz

Sharing Your Videos

• YouTube
• Office 365
• Cobb Videostreaming
• Teacher Tube
• Vimeo

YouTube

• Create a Channel
• Without Gmail https://youtu.be/_SR8zkkHv1g
• With Gmail https://youtu.be/5geys7wEUEU

Additional Resources

• Office 365
• Graphic Organizers
• Storyboards
• Movie Making Checklist

Untitled Slide