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Door Movie Teacher Resources

Published: November 28, 2008Tags: , , ,

The Door Movie: Using AFI curriculum, students created a short video about a door. They then added music and sound effects in Windows Movie Maker to complete the movie. The entire process included storyboards, multiple camera angles, shooting, editing and reshooting. Although students worked in small groups to film, they each edited their own version of the finished movies. See all posts tagged with Door Movie to see student work.

Assignment Expectations: You WILL be graded on the following parts of your movie.

  • Storyboard: 20 points
    • rubric_storyboard (click to read or print)
    • Required Elements:
      • Movement of actor
      • Camera Angle
      • planned sound effects
  • Filming: 20 points
    • rubric_filming (click to read or print)
    • Required Elements:
      • one director, one camera person, one actor
      • Cooperate as a group
      • You must complete the filming of the whole story within one class period
      • You MUST follow the storyboard as written
  • Editing: 50 points 
    • rubric_editing (click to read or print)
    • Required Elements:
      • Beginning, Middle and End to the story
      • NO in camera sound
      • music and sound effects throughout movie (no dead air)
      • Title and credits complete
      • one or more video effect

Storyboards to use and print out

Examples of finished professional storyboards

Other Examples of the Door Movie by AFI students

The AFI Door Movie Instructional Videos and resources http://screennation.afi.com/Learn.aspx

Door Movies

Published: April 16, 2008Tags: , , , , , ,

All the door movies in one place!!!!

Download Video: Posted by cgaub at TeacherTube.com.

Download Video: Posted by cgaub at TeacherTube.com.

Download Video: Posted by cgaub at TeacherTube.com.

Download Video: Posted by cgaub at TeacherTube.com.

Verb, It’s What you DO! Pivot

Published: April 15, 2008Tags: , , , , ,

Based on the “Verb it’s what you do” commercials, create a pivot that has letters acting out and spelling out an action of some kind. Be creative! For this Assignment Students Picked a verb, Used MS PAINT to create a background , Used  PIVOT Stickfigure Animator to act out the word and then Used Windows Movie Maker to add music and title, credits.

dive (click to see an example)

To work on from home you will need to download the program from snapfiles. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html

Pivot “Verb: it’s what you do” Assignment

Published: March 21, 2008Tags: , , , , ,

dive (click to see an example)

Animate a Word Project in “Pivot” Animation Project

Based on the “Verb it’s what you do” commercials, create a pivot that has letters acting out and spelling out an action of some kind. Be creative! Must have details AND a background. Save as a GIF and Upload to Windows Movie Maker to add music and credits.

To work on from home you will need to download the program from snapfiles. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html

Personal Stories

Published: March 12, 2008Tags: , , , ,

Eight graders in Digital Video Class wrote a story about a person, place or event that impacted their life. They then had to collect and create visuals that told the story, record the story narration and put them together in either MS Photostory or Windows Movie Maker. This was their final project for second trimester.

Click on the Arrow to play or the TEXT link to view full screen

Personal Story by Emily B

Personal Story by Paige B

Personal Story by Anna S

Personal Story by Clarissa L

Personal Story by Leobardo C

Personal Story by Heather N

Personal Story by Brady P

Personal Story by Joseph B

Personal Story by Ciarra F

Personal Story by Austyn

Author Mock Interviews with Mrs. Vigil’s Class

Published: February 25, 2008Tags: , , , , , ,

JRR Toilken Interview Author of the The Lord of the Rings

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R.L. Stine Interview Author of the Goosebumps Series

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Gary Paulsen Interview Author of the Hatchet

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Gordan Korman Interview Author of Swindle

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Christopher Paolini Interview Author of Eragon

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Harper Lee Interview Author of To Kill A Mockingbird

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Judy Blume Interview Author of Freckle Juice

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Louis Sachar Interview Author of HOLES

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Sharon Creech Interview Author of Love that Dog

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Lemony Snicket Interview Author of the Series of Unfortunate Events

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Ann Brashares Interview Author of the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

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JK Rowling Interview Author of Harry Potter Series

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and more coming soon!

More Door Movies From 1st period

Published: February 4, 2008Tags: , , , , ,

By Ahmed Starring Ahmed

By Kevin Starring Kevin

By Anna

Door Movies by the 8th graders

Published: January 21, 2008Tags: , , , ,
The American Film Institute created a great student film curriculum that I have been using with my 8th grade digital video arts classes.In this assignment the kids had to shoot a film in a small group. the requirements were: one actor only, all filmed within 5 feet of the door. The actor was to walk up to the door, hear a frightening noise, react in fear, struggle to open the door, finally make it through the door and show relief that the strange noise was not in-fact dangerous.The first day, they shot the film without any storyboard or planning, then they watched the outcome, learned more about camera angles and storyboards and wrote a storyboard. Next, to experience the importance of storyboards they had to re-shoot using the storyboard from a different group. Finally, they re-filmed their own storyboard. For the editing part, all students had to edit their own version from any footage from the several group sessions. They had to edit out all camera audio and use only music and sound effects to tell the story and build the suspense.

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Door Movies by the 8th graders

Published: January 18, 2008Tags: , , , , ,

The American Film Institute created a great student film curriculum that I have been using with my 8th grade digital video arts classes.

In this assignment the kids had to shoot a film in a small group. the requirements were: one actor only, all filmed within 5 feet of the door. The actor was to walk up to the door, hear a frightening noise, react in fear, struggle to open the door, finally make it through the door and show relief that the strange noise was not in-fact dangerous.

The first day, they shot the film without any storyboard or planning, then they watched the outcome, learned more about camera angles and storyboards and wrote a storyboard. Next, to experience the importance of storyboards they had to re-shoot using the storyboard from a different group. Finally, they re-filmed their own storyboard. For the editing part, all students had to edit their own version from any footage from the several group sessions. They had to edit out all camera audio and use only music and sound effects to tell the story and build the suspense.

 2 finished films by different editors ~ Starring LIZ

door movie starring LIZ

2 finished films by different editors ~ Starring TANNER

door movie with tanner

Door Movie Student Version: by Paige 7th grade

Published: January 14, 2008Tags: , , , , ,

paige door

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