Y4 Short film

Jun 052023
 

This term, we are going to create a short film in groups about an aspect of one of your topics from this year:

  • Farm to fork
  • Shang dynasty
  • Romans
  • Shackleton / Antarctica

We will write a script, collect images, film using greenscreening, narrate, edit, add titles and effects.

Week 1 LF Plan a short film

  • In groups, decide on a topic and aspects you want to include.
  • Create a rough sketch/storyboard of your film
  • Start writing the script
  • Find and save the images that you want

Week 2 LF Finish script and practise

Week 3 LF Film with a greenscreen, add backgrounds

Week 4 LF Put images and videos together, narrate

Week 5 LF Edit and add effects

Y5 LF Make an radio programme (3 weeks)

Jun 032023
 

LF1 What makes an effective radio programme?

Listen to some of these radio programmes:

  1. What elements make them effective? (Collect ideas then Diamond 9)
  2. Is there anything you would improve?
  3. PMI for radio programmes

LF2 Planning 10 Qs and As

  • Open a new j2e5 page
  • With a partner, write 10 questions and answers about:
    • Anglo Saxons
    • South America / Amazon Rainforest
    • Earth and Space
    • Greeks
  • You could use
  • Read it throough several times to practise

LF2a Planning a mini documentary

  • Draw a bubble map/mind map of ideas for your programme
  • Use your Greek topic work to add detail to different ideas
  • Take a section each (or with a pair) to work on
  • (If you are working with a pair – don’t “chorus talk”)
  • Record as soon as you have enough for a short section

LF3 Finding music

pixabay music

Attribution not required, but appreciated.  It is polite and respectfut to say where you got your music from to credit the composer/performer.

The music is “Forest Lullaby” by Lesfm from pixabay.com/music

LF4 Recording

  • Record short sections (we haven’t got time for lots of takes of longer sections)
  • iPad + iMovie: Just use the video (with the camera covered up) to record parts of your programme.
  • Chromebook + Audio Studio: Open a new tab, click on then
  • Outro example
    • 10 questions and answers about the ancient Greeks was written and presented by [Names]
    • It is a 2019 production as part of Computing at St Mark’s C of E Junior School, Salisbury
    • The music is [name of music] by Kevin Macleod incompetech.com   License: CC BY creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

LF5 Editing

  • 3-5 seconds of music before speaking starts
  • Dip music volume for speaking
  • Make sure volume levels are good
  • Use split then delete buttons to remove sections or mistakes
  • Duplicate music if it is not long enough
  • Clip and fade out any music at the end <10 seconds

LF6 Saving

LF6a Back up photos and videos on iPad

  1. Open the Google Drive app
  2. Login
  3.  Click the + at the bottom right – Upload – Photos and Videos
  4. Select your videos
  5. LOGOUT – click three lines (top left) – click username – Manage accounts – MANAGE – REMOVE all accounts

LF6b Saving your finished iMovie

  1. Click “Done”
  2. Share button (square with up arrow)
  3. Save video – medium
  4. Then upload to Google Drive

LF6c Saving your finished Audio Studio

  • Click then click the File audio link at the bottom
  • In j2e, click then “Choose files” and find your file
  • Go to “my files” , click on the and rename your file

Finished?  

Y5 LF: Find, copy and paste information

Jan 252023
 

Success criteria

  • All information and pictures onto j2e5 page
  • Info and pictures on correct pages
  • Range of information in sections
  • References = list of websites used

Skills

  • Find useful websites
  • Use keywords to find specific information
  • Right-hand click to “copy image” OR drag image to j2e5 tab
  • Hightlight text then Right-hand click to “copy”
  • “Ctrl v” to paste into j2e5
  • Turn pages in j2e5

Y3 How do I make a page border with my own drawing?

Jan 262022
 

1 Making a page border with your own drawing

  • Use this video to help you make a page border with your own drawing.

Success steps

  1. Log into j2e
  2. Start a new j2e5 page
  3. Use the drawing tools to draw a SIMPLE picture
  4. Untick outline
  5. Change colours
  6. Drag select (draw a box round objects with the select tool)
  7. Use group button
  8. Move items with the mouse
  9. Use duplicate tool to copy shapes
  10. Select more than one item
  11. Be resilient – take care when lining up shapes
  12. Save with a useful name

2 Now try a more complicated toy – a car, train, dolls house…something to do with your “Days gone by” topic

  • Make it big to start with, then shrink it

3 Add a BIG title to your page “Days Gone By”, pictures and topic words to make a full topic page

Y5 LF Create a leaflet/booklet using a template in j2e5

Jan 262022
 

Learning starter

  1. 5 minutes of touch typing
  2. South America map quiz
    • Countries
    • Capital cities
    • Landmarks
    • Physical features
  3. Canama Panal puzzle
  4. This term’s project

1 Introduction

2 LF Information, information, information

  • Go to Google Classroom
  • Open “South America Leaflet information”
  • Under the different headings, copy information and pictures for your leaflet
    • Drag pictures and text
    • Use ctrl c (copy) and ctrl v (paste)
    • Copy things you have read and understand
  • Searching tips
    • Find a good website 
    • Use 3 or 4 key words for specific information
    • Get images from websites rather than from Google Images
    • References – keep a list of websites you used
      • useful for others to read more
      • useful for you to return to
      • polite and right to say where you got your information from

3 Leaflet design

  • Text and pictures
  • Clear layout – lined up, titles
  • Keep it simple – 2 or 3 colours, easy to read fonts
  • Lots of information
  • Mini booklet – do all the right way up first – then turn upside down when finished
  • References box – list of where you got information from
  • Good leaflet design

Y4 LF Using hyperlinks to design a Roman Villa adventure

Jan 172022
 

Please leave a comment if you would like any help

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z7k8q6f

1 Explore an example

2 The project

We are going to create an adventrue around a Roman Villa by using “hyperlinks” between pages in j2e5 – this is how website links work – you make something on the page into a button that sends the viewer to another place when you click on it.  These “buttons” could be pictures, text or even invisible areas on the page.  Where you send them could be another part of that page, a different page or even to play a sound clip.

Here is a starter project – you could find more pictures and add more pages:

3 How to create an invisible link (eg for a doorway)

  1. Draw a rectangle or any shape
  2. Select it and untick “outline” and “fill”
  3. Place it on the doorway or where you want to click
  4. Make sure it is selected (blue square)
  5. Click “link”
  6. Type for example “#page 3”
  7. Make sure it is the correct page number!  Click “ok”
  8. “View” to test it

Ideas

  1. What’s the point of the game? Add an information box
    1. Include an instruction at the start
      1. Find the lost Roman necklace – leave clues…
      2. Find information about the Roman villa – have pop up info boxes using animate
  2. How to make an Information box appear
    1. Make an information box
    2. Select it then click “animate” (instead of “link”)
    3. Make it appear when it is clicked on or hovered over.
    4. Information box video
  3. Zoom into a picture
    1. Use the same picture but crop then enlarge to a detail
    2. Add something extra to the zoomed in page, eg a note, sign or clue
    3. Zoom into a picture video
  4. Include a sound
    1. Go to one of the garden pages
    2. Click on pictures then shared pictures
    3. Drag on the “calm garden” sound.
    4. Select it and tick: “autostart” and “loop”
    5. Send it to the bottom layer to hide.
    6. Add a sound – video instructions
  5. Record a sound 
    1. Click and “record sound”.  Record and save a sound.
    2. Add to page – you could set it to autostart or loop when the page is loaded.
    3. Or draw an invisible shape or select an picture
    4. Click “link” and “to sound” – “my sounds” and drag it into the box
    5. Record and link a sound video
  6. Website
    1. http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/houses/roman.htm

Success criteria

  • First page – Aim of the game – box
  • All rooms linked up
  • Aim – eg hidden item, answer to question
  • End – winning screen, losing screen – option to restart
  • Fade in between pages
  • Challenge
    • ** Secret tunnels
    • ** wrong turns
    • ** information boxes
    • l** link to info website eg primary homeork help Roman houses
    • ** Sound clips
    • ** What have players learned about the Romans/Roman houses by playing your game?
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