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Experimenting with set creation, characters, and the camera. The lesson might allow students to experiment with materials to create a world for a video project. Students might partner up to create sets together using paint and cardboard, playing within the "frame" of a video and creating different props and masks to fulfill their overall idea, such as a trip to the future or a day in the jungle. Further exploration would require script writing and different elements of making a movie. A fun idea might be to create a background where students can poke their faces through and talk in a video, eliminating the need for many separate parts. This lesson might take cues from the videos of Michel Gondry that utilize everyday materials and "lo-fi" qualities to their full advantage.
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Video as documentation? Students might choose to make a video to document a day in their life; a way to show a portrait of themselves through making clips about their favorite activities. Similar to photo documentation but with video; ideally students would have access to video cameras and a lab to edit footage. They could also narrate a sequence of images in a still-image video. Time lapse could also be interesting.
Experimenting with set creation, characters, and the camera. The lesson might allow students to experiment with materials to create a world for a video project. Students might partner up to create sets together using paint and cardboard, playing within the "frame" of a video and creating different props and masks to fulfill their overall idea, such as a trip to the future or a day in the jungle. Further exploration would require script writing and different elements of making a movie. A fun idea might be to create a background where students can poke their faces through and talk in a video, eliminating the need for many separate parts. This lesson might take cues from the videos of Michel Gondry that utilize everyday materials and "lo-fi" qualities to their full advantage.
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Video as documentation? Students might choose to make a video to document a day in their life; a way to show a portrait of themselves through making clips about their favorite activities. Similar to photo documentation but with video; ideally students would have access to video cameras and a lab to edit footage. They could also narrate a sequence of images in a still-image video. Time lapse could also be interesting.
