Working+with+Students

=**Steps for making movies with students: media type="custom" key="7373815"**=
 * Read my SchoolArts article as you view the next few pages**

*Start with permission slips!!! and here is why...
Here is an example
 * You can get permission to post the movie online, send it to festivals, have it air on the local cable station
 * You can collect a parent e-mail so that you can easily contact the family when your movie goes live online, or wins a national contest (who knows!)
 * You can use them as a way to organize who gets to participate "First 10 signed permission slips by Wednesday...."

1. Storyboard
AFI Screen Education provides this wonderful guide: Download this guide The guide includes a glossary of common camera shots with illustrations. This is a wonderful tool for helping students choose a variety of shots to better tell their stories. and the guide includes this. Print this and use a handout for your students to begin sketching camera shots in each box to help tell their story. My students used little note papers for each camera shot and organized them on one large butcher paper sheet to storyboard SWEPT AWAY, a collaborative movie project.