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…
This collection of minutes brought to you by the Movie Makers Club at the Belmont Picturehouse, Aberdeen. Plenty of variety. Good work guys! {Each participant was asked to film a minute of material in the manner of the Lumière Brothers. The shot was to be from a fixed position, lasting one minute and including the…
A beautiful collection of Lumiere Minutes from my P7 class at Holy Family Primary in Aberdeen. Many of them seemed to be very directly influenced by some of the themes that crop up in the Lumiere Brothers’ clips (e.g. animals, small children)… It was interesting watching them all together in class. They really engaged with…
This is one of the earliest exercises I gave my class at Holy Family in Aberdeen, as a means of getting them to think about the different effects (emotional/sensational) created by different camera angles and shot-styles. They were tasked with filming the same action – a game of “Grandma’s Footsteps” – in a variety of…
We’re really in the swing of things over at Holy Family! This wonderful P7 class have finished their Lumiere Minutes (watch this space…) and are already rehearsing their scenes for Exercise 2. Here they all are lined up nicely: And below are a couple of pictures taken during their second class. They were given an…
My friend Wendy has been at my house for a week doing some much-needed welding work on his van. Here, he is cutting out a patch of metal ready to weld. At this time of year the days short so although he has been working for hours, he now has to depend on the dim…
Understanding Cinema 