Jul '01 19

The next Summer School project called ‘Emotions’ has begun with a new batch of ‘Researchers’ had to ‘tell an emotional’ story about a word. Each child picked one word out of a hat out of a possible 100 words. The first challenge, in groups of 4, was to decide which of the words picked out of the hat by the groups members should be made into a film.

In groups the young people will need to decide from the words they have pulled at random, which of these will they make a film about? This challenge requires the groups to bond quickly in order to being their tough challenge.

The film had to last for no more than 3 minutes, have a suitable soundtrack, loop and contain the word and names of the Researchers involved in the movie.

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If the films created by the young people are good enough they will be included in a DVD production and displayed at the V&A museum in December.

This project is funded for the second year by SEEVEAZ, the South East of England Virtual Education Action Zone.

Jul '01 10
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We experimented with a ‘One Hour Film School’ assisted by children from White Court School in Braintree, Essex.

The plan was to find out if it was possible to teach how to use Apple’s iMovie software and Canon cameras in 30 minutes and for the children to then make a film without any adult help in a further 30 minutes. It worked, and here are the 30 second films, completely planned and made by the children.

The lessons learnt from the pilot activity went forward to create the hour and a half training sessions for all future Summer School events.

Team:
Colin Elsey (Ultralab)
Matthew Eaves (Ultralab)
Alice Mitchell (Ultralab)
Richard Millwood (Ultralab)
George Variopoulos (Ultralab)

The finished films are called ‘Watch Top of the Pops’, ‘Wonder Water’, ‘The Mummy Returns’ and ‘Friends’, here they are:

icon for podpress  Wonder Water: Play Now | Play in Popup
icon for podpress  Watch Top of the Pops: Play Now | Play in Popup
icon for podpress  The Mummy Returns: Play Now | Play in Popup
icon for podpress  Friends: Play Now | Play in Popup