Reflection sessions 9 and 10

Reflection sessions 9 and 10

We are on the final stretch of our film making journey. What a ride!

 Enthusiasm levels and work output have increased and the students themselves are bubbling with excitement at the prospect of seeing the final products. What began as an idea and a piece of writing they developed in their classroom has begun to take shape as a movie.

The students have expressed pride in their efforts and are keen to share each new creation, music, sound and editing of their footage. It has been highly rewarding to observe how the multi age, multi skilled groups have come together, working as highly effective and cooperative teams. The atmosphere of sharing skills and knowledge, seeing the students seek help from peers while also being willing to share their ideas and techniques has been a reward of its own.

Teams have been able to divide the work load with a considered approach. They identify the skills of their members and assign roles accordingly. Where skills are not developed they seek assistance and up skill themselves to be able to complete tasks. They seek advice from staff but most often from their class mates across the teams. It is kids teaching kids in its best form!

Crafting a Minecraft Film

Students are now on the way to finishing their Fairy tales. All the clips have been placed in final cut pro.  Each clip has been "transformed" to remove the screen capture which reveals the game play tool bar.


Some members of the team are creating music using GarageBand, others are working on the credits, and some are "cutting out the boring bits" often referred to as editing.


Quote "when I watched movie or TV I thought making stuff would be really easy but now I am making one I realise that it is really hard.


We are now in the final push which will include sound effects and a basic mix.


Chrisi is organising The Minecraft Film Festival Premier in our theatre.


Photos from the red carpet will follow.

Session 10 plan

Session 10

Film editing

Use all the footage filmed, in all software or stored in the server. Import it to the Final Cut Pro software to your film project.

AFK

Divide the group into 2.  Editing team and Music/Sound team

 

Software

1.       Editing team

Final Cut Pro

Half the team will edit the footage and work on the flow of the film.

Titles – they will need to add titles and credits to the film.

Consider sound effects that the film may need or that will support the action or plot.

2.       Music/sound team

Garage Band

Half team will begin sound and music creation

Using garage band they will lay loops that tell the story of the movie plot or express the emotions of the characters I the movie at given points

 They will also need to create music for the title and music for the credits.

Sound can relay feelings and emotions. The music and sound you create and choose will give a greater more enjoyable experience to your audience and can help relay the feelings you are trying to portray and support your story line.

Export the music from garage band and load it to the server file, listen to it on the speakers.

Share music and sound with class.

Session 9 plan

Term 2

Session 9

AFK

Gene – review (refresh after term break!)

How to locate your project in Final Cut Pro

How to import your saved files (crazy talk scenes) from server to Final Cut Pro

Using ishowU to film action sequences in Minecraft

 Importing this ishowU media into Final Cut Pro

Filming in world today (ishowU)

Action scene in MinecraftEdu to accompany the dialogue scenes in the film.

Shot styles/types

Pan, tilt

Birdseye view

Steady camera. Don’t rush!

In a group meeting plan 3 to 5 actions scenes that are pivotal to the story line of the film.

 Which characters will be acting in these scenes and what will they be required to do?

 What actions are required?

 Who will the camera person be for the shots and what camera angel will work best?

In World

Log into MinecraftEdu

Move to the location the team has decided on for the action scene sequence

Camera person is the director of the scene

 Rehearse the action and decide on the camera position

Rehearses a few times

Using ishowU film the action scene

 View and repeat if necessary

 Film all the required scenes

Import these scene from ishowU to final cut pro

 

 

 

 

 

Minecraft Camera Action!

We are moving making!

The Fabulous Fairy Tales and Fables of Minecraft

 

Recording character voices using Crazytalk.

Teams delegate tasks.

 2 members are recording lines and 2 are building movie sets in Minecraft.

Recording lines of the movie using their written scripts.

 

 

Editing the speaking parts into a sequence using Final Cut Pro.