For extension we have been focusing on our film festival movie that’s due in week 9! The Manaiakalani Film festival is coming up, and we’ve been working hard with planning and filming. It’s week 6 so we don’t have much time as we only get to come together once a week. But before everything, I wanted to write a quick blog post about how our film has been coming along! Starting from the very beginning…
When we first sat down to talk about the film festival, we immediately began brainstorming about some ideas we could do. Watching a few movies from our archives, we identified what makes a good movie successful and entertaining. We thought about the various types of camera angles and lighting, along with the simple concepts mixed in with humour. Once we gathered all of this information, we looked back on the previous movie the extension group made that past year, and found out we actually had to make the movie ourselves! Super exciting.
Soo… Next we got into groups and wrote down our different ideas on the slideshow we shared. The ideas my partner and I wrote down were Willy Wonka, something related with sports, Pitch Perfect, and Matilda. We got rid of the Matilda idea though. After everyone wrote down their ideas, Mrs Burton made a form and put all the ideas into it. We all had to vote anonymously. I voted for the one I was mainly attracted to at first, and it actually won! Getting one of the most votes, we finally had our movie. BUT NO SPOILERS! But I can tell you we are learning about parody and satire.
The next session we were together, we went straight into story-boarding and planning each part of the song in groups. We had to plan what scenes we’ll be doing, and I got the first skit! I had quite a few scenes planned, but unfortunately I decided to scrap the last idea. I found story-boarding quite challenging as my brain wasn’t on the creative side.
I also got picked to be one of the main people for a scene, and so that’s what we did next. We filmed after finally getting our planning and thinking done, and for me, staying in character was the biggest challenge I had to face. It was pretty hard to act and not break character, but in the end I did pretty well.
We filmed a few other scenes after this, and got about 2-3 scenes partially complete! Work in real progress. And we were doing pretty good as we–the students–were planning everything. Obviously we got a bit of help from our teacher, but overall, we were the ones doing the editing and planning. I appreciate being able to share our thoughts on what we wanted the movie to be, because with a bunch of minds come great ideas!
In the 5th week, we had to go to KPMG so unfortunately we didn’t get to film that week, but this week I got to be a part of another scene! It was pretty straight forward as well, and staying in character was still a big struggle for me even now.
So that’s how our film festival process has been going so far! Slowly but surely.. And I can’t wait to see it all together! Can’t wait for the movie to come out for all of us to watch. Thank you for reading.
Hello, everyone!
Room 3 has been doing this activity called the hot seat activity, where a small group talks about a story and one person becomes a character from the book. If your a character from the book then you answer questions through first person view and answer as if you were the actual character expressing your emotions. I became Ethan from the Dawn Raid story and I explained the part where I pushed down Tavita down the stool.