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…
Last week at Glendale Primary the children learnt how to cover a scene. They filmed a master shot and over the shoulder close ups, they also were introduced to the rules about ‘crossing the line’. Before filming they developed a simple story situation involving two characters to act out. This week the group will edit…
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