These Hands on Filmmaking Activities for offer a comprehensive exploration of various filmmaking techniques. Dive deep into cinematography, scripting, storyboarding, sound design, and staging. All cards have tasks written on them that get your students doing hands-on activities for making movies.
Integrate these cards into your lessons, group work, independent study, or as homework assignments for a versatile learning experience. They can be used a wide variety of classes and settings, and are perfect for film studies.
Use them for high school students, or for your upper-level middle school learners. Additionally, the included resource notes provide valuable guidance and tips on how to effectively use these task cards in your classroom.
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KEY FEATURES
These film studies task cards offer a wealth of benefits for students who need to practice different areas of filmmaking:
- Writing Skills: Enhance students’ ability to express their ideas clearly and coherently through script writing scenarios.
- Creativity: Encourage students to think outside the box and explore their imagination using their smartphones to light the scene and record sound.
- Critical Thinking: Practice by doing is the best, most active way to learn something, and these scenarios get your students thinking about movies at a deeper level and understanding the techniques used to create compelling narratives.
- Cooperative Learning: Foster collaboration by encouraging students to work together organically on group scenarios.
There are 5 major categories that the scenarios explore and give practice to:
- Cinematography (Lighting): This category focuses on the use of light to create mood, atmosphere, and visual interest in a film. Students will learn how to manipulate light to achieve different effects, such as creating shadows, highlighting objects, and establishing a specific tone. And they get to use their phone to do this!
- Staging: This category is interwoven throughout the other categories. It involves the placement of actors and objects within a scene. Students will learn how to use staging to create visual interest, convey emotions, and tell a story.
- Scripting: This category focuses on the writing of dialogue and scenes for a film. Students will learn how to develop characters, write compelling dialogue, and structure a story.
- Storyboarding: This category involves the creation of visual representations of a film’s scenes. Students will learn how to use storyboards to plan shots, visualize the pacing of a film, and communicate their ideas to others.
- Sound Design: This category focuses on the use of sound effects, music, and voiceovers to enhance the storytelling. Students will learn how to select and use sound to create mood, atmosphere, and interest. And they get to use their phone to do this!
Get your set of Film Studies Task Cards for Creative Practice today and unlock the potential of your students’ creative minds. With these engaging prompts, you’ll provide them with the tools they need to become confident and skilled filmmakers.
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This package comes in a PDF file that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. In the package, you’ll get all 40 task cards on 20 pages (2 to a page). There are also resource notes with guides on how to use these task cards effectively in the classroom.
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