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 Smoothie adverts

Mar 132020
 
  1. Yo have already composed a piece of music in Garage Band in Music lessons for this project
  2. Prepare an advert for your smoothie – script, action, props
  3. Video in front of greenscreen
  4. Find a backdrop picture
    1. Tools – usage rights – marked for non-commercial use with modification
    2. Email to me (greenscreen not on iPads yet…)
  5. On iPad
    1. Log into Google Drive
    2. Download your video
  6. In iMovie, add very short title screen and music, edit, share
    1. In Google Drive find your music, open with, iMovie

Y6 LF Make a documentary (3 weeks)

Jun 032019
 

Week 3 – finishing

  • Intro (eg black screen, black with title, black)
  • Images with narration
    • Adjust volumes so info is clear
    • Adjust length of images to fit narration – with small gaps for music interlude (only a few seconds)
  • Credits
    • Written and presented by … (first names only)
    • St Mark’s C of E Junior School, Salisbury, 2019
    • Music [name of music] by Kevin MacLeod
    • Insert this picture: “incompetech.com   License: CC BY creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (or include the slide from me)”

Week 2

By the end of today:

  • All pictures into iMovie
  • Including all blank/title/quote screens
  • Find backing music and email me
  • Narration in note form ready top start narrating next week

iPads

GMail app

  1. Log in
  2. At end of session – manage accounts – delete account

Google image search

  1. Swipe colours to the left to find usage rights – labelled for non commercial use

Week 1

  1. Choose your favourite topic from any year at St Mark’s
  2. Plan (use email to draft)
    1. Ideas
    2. Pictures (labelled for non commercial use; attach to email)
    3. Facts
    4. Intro
    5. Outro
    6. Script
    7. Music – look on incompetech.com for appropriate soundtrack music – email me the link
  3. Planning success – minimum
    1. 5 picures
    2. 5 pieces of information (in own words) t go with pictures
    3. music
  4. Produce iMovie (access email on iPad – don’t forget to remove account at end)
    1. Pictures
    2. Edit lengths
    3. Credits
    4. Title
    5. Music – incompetech.com
  5. Share
    1. Save
    2. Publish
    3. Promote

Y5: How do we continue with our radio program?

Jul 072017
 

Plan, rehearse, record…plan, rehearse, record…

  • Continue to plan, rehearse and record short sections.

Music

  • Use one of the iMovie music track or receive one of the ones I will send.

Retrieve your files from Google Drive

  1. Open the Google Drive app and login
  2. Find your videos
  3. Click on three dots, send a copy, save video
  4. It’s now in your videos to use in iMovie

Backup to Google Drive

  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

Saving your finished iMovie

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