Makin’ Movies

Joe Brennan

jbtv@mac.com

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

Made for TVQuickTime™ and a

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You shoot it, They’ll share it! foxhilites.com

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