Movie Making

 

Movie Making

Moviemaking in the classroom is a fun way for students to engage with different content. This activity offers students a unique, hands-on learning experience that allows them to be creative, collaborate with their peers, and engage in critical thinking. Through projects such as short films, animations, and music videos, students can explore the entire creative process, they can write the script, film, and edit. These types of projects help students develop important skills such as communication, problem-solving, and teamwork while using their interests and imagination for moviemaking. By using moviemaking in the classroom, it also allows students to engage with different ideas. They can then apply what they've learned in different ways and express their understanding to others. Overall, moviemaking provides an amazing educational opportunity that gives students skills they can use as they get older. 

There are plenty of ways for teachers to integrate filmmaking into their classrooms. Activities that could include filmmaking could be students reenacting a scene from a book they are reading in ELA. Or the students could make an educational film where they discuss issues about climate change, which they are learning about in science. Students could also make a music video showing the music skills they are learning in their music class. "A teacher who wants to integrate filmmaking into the curriculum doesn't have to be a Joey Travolta to make the experience meaningful and generative." (Huerta, 2015) There are plenty of fun ways students can use the skill of filmmaking in their classrooms.  

There are plenty of sources students and teachers can use to learn more about filmmaking in their classroom. Here are a couple of examples: 

www.edutopia.org/blog/through-the-lens-of-filmmaking-merle-huerta 

Kids' Vid: Video Production for Students (4teachers.org) 

How to Get Started with Movie-Making in the Classroom - Easy EdTech Podcast 111 - Class Tech Tips 

There are plenty of benefits for students to engage with filmmaking in their classroom. Filmmaking allows students to get creative. Filmmaking allows students to express their creativity in unique ways. The second benefit of filmmaking is that it allows students to work in groups. When students work in groups, it allows them to work on their collaboration and teamwork skills. The third benefit is that it gives students a different way to express their understanding. Filmmaking is a way students can express their knowledge of the content in another way besides the traditional essay. There are multiple benefits!

Here is the short documentary of my day, that I created!

Here is my short documentary about a day in my life down below