Lights, Camera, Learn!: Basic Visual Literacy and Filmmaking in the Classroom
In this fast paced session, participants will explore aligning basic concepts of screen language to written grammar with model lessons for classroom film/video projects using commercially available DVDs and web 2.0 tools.
This session explores the stages of video production and offers specific skill-building exercises for teachers and students to learn and teach with video. Lessons presented can be replicated in most middle and high school classes.
This hands-on workshop explores concepts of fundamental screen grammar in visual storytelling and how choices in the editing process can enhance or distract from a story. This lesson can be adapted when teaching a digital video or photography class, or as part of a unit across the curriculum and models applications in History and Social Studies.
Lights, Camera, Learn!: Opening the Door to Video in the Classroom
In this hands-on workshop, teachers and administrators of all grade levels and subjects will learn how to use filmmaking as a tool to engage student learning. Through a process developed specifically for educators by the American Film Institute, participants will learn to shoot, plan edit, critique projects and make connection to their curricula. Participants will learn:
• Basic visual grammar and the difference between a shots and scenes
• Organize and improve filmmaking with storyboards
• Experience hands-on how to use video cameras