Procrastination Studios

Description: Create a 1 minute short that copies a famous sequence from a movie shot for shot. You must limit yourself to movie from the 21^st century and they may not be scenes from a school or college. Then, you must re-write the script and make it a middle school film. Limit yourself to a maximum of three actors.

For this project, students will create a short film that not only meets illustrates a typical scene of that genre with the added twist of rewriting the setting to the middle school. It is not necessary that these films tell a complete a story; a piece of a story is sufficient, as long as there is clear evidence of genre conventions somewhere between the fade in and the fade out.

Product: At the conclusion of this project the student(s) will create a 1 minute film that mimics a scene from a particular genre in a middle school setting.

Objectives: Students will:

• identify a scene from a particular genre
• write a script for the scene set in the middle school
• complete a storyboard and identify filming locations
• film and edit their scene

Resources:

• Imdb.com
• Youtube

Hand in:

• Storyboard of scene
• Script – One page
• 1 minute short

We will spend the next week completing our empathy videos. Please use your class time wisely to plan, shoot and edit your work. Videos will be due next Wednesday, February 20th. Continue to update your blogs and post comments. We will use the online conversations to decide our next couple of projects including the mockumentary and genre spoof. Finally here is the Go around twice if you are happy video again.

Remember that each group should be writing a post each day to update their progress or share creative ideas.  Each individual will be responsible to post at least 1 comment before the next class.

Music Videos will be ready for Friday’s class. The videos can be in quicktime or wmv format but try to keep the file size reasonable. You can post the Video poster on the blog and we will be printing them out for the bulletin board.