The Salen group have been busy working on exercise 2 of the project. Together they devised a short piece based around the fear of socks… To start with the piece has been filmed from a fixed perspective, then reviewed and changes made accordingly. It was then adapted to a new room lay out and filmed…
Once again, the notion of ‘achievability’ in the Understanding Cinema process, led me to think about what sort of stories should we be encouraging students to tell with their films? How can we make the best of limited resources, to tell stories that translate across cultural boundaries when they are shown to UC participants elsewhere…
Miss Keegan’s film- making class proudly present two films for Exercise 2 of the Understanding Cinema project: The Static camera The Moving camera We have had a discussion about what we have learned from the Understanding Cinema project so far ….. If you don’t have a tripod, it’s difficult to keep the camera…
The class are working in 4 groups to develop their next ideas, their ideas are based around games and play but with some kind of danger or something going wrong….this group are planning a scene based around a camping trip in the nearby grounds of Gordon Castle
At last here are the Lumiere Minutes from Whitecraig PS in East Lothian. The students are Primary 6-7 and there are 21 of them in total. I think we might have a couple extra ones in this batch. The videos are mixed in their interest and quality. We had a very good feedback session as…
Welcome to Miss Keegan’s third year Enhanced Provision class. After much discussion we decided that our inspirational place is a cinema. Why? It is an adventure to get there. It’s good for the family for a good day out. Great food and drinks to enjoy. The films have really great stories to them and…
Lumiere minutes
As we head in to the second and third exercises of Understanding Cinema we will be asking some of our participants to act. Acting is an extraordinary thing. You pretend to be someone else, when it’s in fact clear that you are you and not that other person. You have to invite the audience to…
Just a few pictures of the guys at Blackness getting some shooting experience.
Understanding Cinema 