Story Boards and Movie Making

Today we learnt how to write a story for a movie using storyboards.  We looked at a sample of one that someone quickly sketched to begin to plan their movie.  Then we looked at one that more detail had been added to both in pictures and words.  We also talked about how Disney and Pixar use storyboards in their movie making process.

We talked about how we would create our first storyboard that had place for three pictures. We talked about the first box being about the two characters in our movie.  The second box was for the setting that we would create using items from around the room or outside.  The third box was for the problem or conflict in our movie. 

Once we knew the task, we were randomly put into groups to come up with our storyboard.  We also had to assign our roles - who would be the camera person, who would be the sound person, who would be the puppeteers. 

When we were finished making our movies and they had been uploaded and viewed as a class, we took some time to reflect on what made a good movie and what we could have done better.  

These are our reflections about our movies:

• team work - we have to work together as a team
• make sure that the volume on the microphone is correct
• put the actor in the middle of the screen
• careful with camera work because of the case getting in the way
• make it the right length - not too short and not too long
• don’t get your fingers in the way of the camera
• the movie doesn’t have to be perfect
• have a storyboard to plan
• have a good setting
• sometimes there were other people's voices in the movie
• sometimes people were in our movie in the background
• in another movie we would like to choose our own characters, settings and groups

And here are our movies!  Enjoy!

The Jungle Adventure by Tobey, MacKenzie, Jack and James

https://youtu.be/_C_oZOVRysE 

The Great Dino Chase by Tony, James, Daniel and Liam
https://youtu.be/RlNq-ImnE9s


The Missing Giraffe by Amelia, Chloe, Emily, Parinaz and Judy
https://youtu.be/vPI0rgBKz3k


The Transforming Ball by Charlotte, Maria, Jordan and Ben
https://youtu.be/OOWMN6qjd7M


The Angry Elephant by Jade, Brad, Blake and Michelle
https://youtu.be/coZeqjvjUjg


The Lion That Never Gave Up by Juliet, Chelsea, Oscar and Andy
https://youtu.be/BtjemK2YjSo

A busy week in review

Another week has flown past!  Here are a few highlights from the week.

FITNESS

For fitness this week our focus has been 'games', so we made up one.  The children named it 'Hide and Guide'.  All of the children found a hiding spot in the nature walk behind our class.  Two children were 'it' and they had to close their eyes and be guided by a friend who gave them instructions to find the children who were hiding.  A lot of fun was had by all!

  

ART
Another layer of paper mache and newspaper went onto our letters.  This coming Wednesday will be the final day of paper mache when we add our last layer of plain newsprint.  Thank you so much to the parents who have been able to help us out!  This is the last week that we really need parent help for completing our paper mache.  If you are able to join us between 1.30 and 3 on Wednesday, it would be greatly appreciated!

MATHS
We have learnt a new game on our iPads.  It is called Maths Slide and can be played with 1 to 4 players.  It can be played using multiplication, division, addition, subtraction or place value.  Here are Juliet and Liam playing a game together.

THEME & BLOGGING
We have been busy posting to our blogs this week, as well.  The children have all completed a Google Slide show in which they researched a country and its culture and created their own slideshow.  Some chose to work independently and some chose to work with 1 or 2 friends.  Their slideshows, along with their Learning Intention, Success Criteria and Self-Assessment, have been posted to their blogs. Please be sure to stop by their blog and have a look and leave your own comment.  Here is one of the slideshows made by the students.

Our Fabulous First Week!

What a super week we have had starting our learning journey together in this, our penultimate year at Cockle Bay School!  One of the first things we've done this week is learn what 'penultimate' means.  Ask us to see if we can remember and use it in a sentence.

We spent time this week talking about what is important to take along with us on our learning journey this year.  We talked about how everywhere we go on our journey we leave footprints.  We are making our own learning journey pathway display in our classroom.

Here we are working together brainstorming what we know about the Cockle Bay 4Cs


Our Ready Steady Go learning wall is off to a great start filled with our shared ideas.

One of the definite highlights of our week was the welcoming of our class pets - 17 tadpoles!  One has already turned into a frog and we are having fun feeding him with a record of 9 flies given to him in one day!  This is a picture of our first frog and his first fly.  They sat like this for about an hour before the frog zipped out his tongue and ate the fly!  Juliet was the lucky one who saw it happen.

Our class writing wall has our first quick write activity on display.  Make sure to stop by often to read what we've been working on.