The Understanding Cinema project offers lots of opportunities to explore learning and sharing across the school year. This blog serves as a means to allow groups to see each other’s work; our tutors get together online and in person throughout the course of the year, sharing the experience of the project with each other, feeding…
The P7 boys at Holy Family drew a stunning storyboard telling of a young boy who sleeps rough in a park. One day, somebody carelessly drops their watch on the ground by his bench as they reach into their bag to get their mobile… An opportunity for the boy to try to turn his luck…
The girls in Holy Family P7 came up with this chilling (at times funny!) thriller scene set in a church! They had a lot of fun filming it in a variety of different ways, and adding twists to try to make it more believable! The boys helped by providing the round of applause at the…
The Saturday group at the Belmont Cinema came up with this great scene for Exercise 2. The brief was to create a short scene (2-3min) which will be filmed using a Long Take, first from a fixed point and then again with a moving camera. For the static shot, the group was influenced by some…
Preparing costumes, sets, gathering ideas and storyboarding. They are all doing brilliantly
Adam brought in his lego railway track and used it for filming dance moves exercise
We had a fantastic Outdoor Learning day today with Dr Sam Harrison http://www.openground.eu where we developed ideas in the environment that will be part of our final film set (in the woods next to the school) – we are now working on final ideas to be crafted into our script….we now have lots of ideas…
On the last day of March the tutors and project team got together in Edinburgh at the Filmhouse to review the project and share the films from exercise 2 in person. It was a great day, I was so pleased to have so many of us in one place together, sharing our experience of the…
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