Download - Make Movies4web
Makin’ Movies
Joe Brennan
http://www.denblogs.com/digital_storytelling
Discovery Education streaming search “afi”
Check out theAmerican Film
Institute’sscreennation.afi.com
The LEARN channel
How? Documentaries “Grilled”
http://sfett.com/html_movie/Ican/grilled.html
How?
News
“Olds” - historical “you are there”
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How? Movie trailers
Commercials/PSA’s
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You shoot it, They’ll share it! foxhilites.com
How? Movie trailers
Commercials/PSA’s
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How?
Interviews
Historicalre-enactment
Dramatizeliterature
Visual Grammar A shot is a sentence
“The Quickest Way to Rent”from National Car Rental
Visual Grammar A group of shots is a scene/paragraph
“The Quickest Internship” from National
Visual Grammar
Pans and zooms are run-on sentences
Transitions and effects can be run away commas and conjunctions
Hollywood Grammar Tips
Establishing shot - topic sentence
Close-ups (look for small things)
Two shot -Letterman Super Bowl promo
Establish, Tell, End
Prior knowledge!
Establish, Tell, EndFrank Guttler’s
Google Teachers Academy applicationhttp://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=2jwsSwtBsJg&fmt=
18
Establish
He lifts the laptop
lid and…
…tells us who he is and his
hopes.
Tell
3 things to know
What students achieve
What Google can add
End
Recap, thank youand…
…closes the lidjust like he started
Hollywood Tips
Long shot - establishes context
Zoomed, not zooming
Dolly shot - camera goes to the action
(office chair, skate board, baby stroller)
High angle - looks down
Low angle - looks up
What’s your angle?
What’s your angle?
Powerful vs. Weak
http://www.greatmindsfoundation.org/view_video.php?viewkey=aaf8370ebeda47a1ff1c
“Talent Show”
Getting the Shot
AFI. “LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION! AFI Kindergarten to Twelfth Grade
Screen Education I: What Filmmakers Say (Episode 9 of 9).” Discovery
Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.
com/
Rule of Thirds
It’s nottic-tac-toe
Avoidthe middle
Use the intersectio
ns
Rule of Thirds
“Return of the King”
Rule of Thirds
Is he a clown because…?
http://www.greatmindsfoundation.org/view_video.php?
viewkey=f202f26c1a174c735758
“A Message of Well Being”
Lighting
3 Point Lighting
“LEARN” screennation.afi.com/Learn.aspx?
by=2
Video Tips: homepage.mac.com/jbtv
ali.apple.com (search on video)
Lighting
ScreenNation’s LEARN channelhttp://www.screennation.afi.com/
Watch.aspx?video=743
Sound and more
Storyboarding
Storyboardingcheck the EXTRAS
menu on DVD’s
From “Monsters, Inc.”
“Hey, moron!”
http://netgened.grownupdigital.com/video/dontapscottchallenge1-1
NFLB“No Future Left Behind”
http://netgened.grownupdigital.com/video/no-future-left-behind-
1
Links The American Film Institute screennation.afi.com & afi.edu
The iCan Student Film Festival sfett.com
The Great Minds Foundation www.greatmindsfoundation.org
Discovery Education Streaming www.discoveryeducation.com (search “afi”)
Frank Guttler’s blog www.lightscameralearn.com
Examples: homepage.mac.com/jbtv
netgened.grownupdigital.com
Denblogs.com/digital_storytelling
