Last year, I started most library sessions with a book talk, book trailer, book chat, or series highlight as a way to share the love of reading and recommend good books to our readers at LC. I was thrilled with the enthusiasm around reading as a result of sharing books with one another.
While we viewed some really quality book trailers, I realized I wanted to give my kids a chance to show their creativity and their love of books by producing their very own movie trailers to share with our school community through various avenues.
So, over the summer I set about making plans for the beginning of the year. As usual, I jumped in with both feet and fell in over my head:) but that is how I roll and get things done! At Lewis and Clark there are 200 kids creating videos! Some decided to work alone and others in small groups.
To begin, we viewed A LOT of trailers and wrote down our noticings, good and bad! From there we selected books and began creating a plan and a storyboard to guide our work. Most kids are producing their work with WeVideo, a couple with imovie, a few with stop-motion, and a few with Animoto. This is my first year working in great depth with WeVideo and I am IMPRESSED with all that it can do on our ChromeBooks.
We have decided upon our success criteria and viewed a couple of our own completed videos as we continue to create videos.
We have learned so much through this process...
While we viewed some really quality book trailers, I realized I wanted to give my kids a chance to show their creativity and their love of books by producing their very own movie trailers to share with our school community through various avenues.
So, over the summer I set about making plans for the beginning of the year. As usual, I jumped in with both feet and fell in over my head:) but that is how I roll and get things done! At Lewis and Clark there are 200 kids creating videos! Some decided to work alone and others in small groups.
To begin, we viewed A LOT of trailers and wrote down our noticings, good and bad! From there we selected books and began creating a plan and a storyboard to guide our work. Most kids are producing their work with WeVideo, a couple with imovie, a few with stop-motion, and a few with Animoto. This is my first year working in great depth with WeVideo and I am IMPRESSED with all that it can do on our ChromeBooks.
We have decided upon our success criteria and viewed a couple of our own completed videos as we continue to create videos.
We have learned so much through this process...
- Planning helps in the long run.
- Sticking with one theme and mood throughout the video (even though there are so many cool transitions and fun overlays) is hard but necessary.
- It is important to work on timing and the number of words that need to be read on a frame.
- Grammar, punctuation, and spelling ARE important!
- Feedback makes a better product.
- Time management is key to getting work done. We have used the word urgency when thinking about our goals for each day.
- Being creative is a great way to learn and show our learning.
Some Pics Of Our Planning Process
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