In this course, students will become inspired filmmakers as they learn to comprehend the power of storytelling to express their ideas. These young filmmakers will advance their skills and experience as they learn, through creating, the FUN-damentals of Storytelling.
Your life, your story. Students will dive into the art of storytelling as they express themselves through their own lived experience. Students will be the main character; the producer; the sound designer; the lighting engineer, and learn to communicate meaning through storytelling. Students will learn to differentiate between fact and fiction and become content creators instead of passive consumers of media. Students will gain a wide understanding of how their story, and the stories of history, work as building blocks for their own video projects.
In this course, students will become inspired filmmakers as they learn to comprehend the power of storytelling to express their ideas. These young filmmakers will advance their skills and experience as they learn, through creating, the FUN-damentals of Storytelling.
Your life, your story. Students will dive into the art of storytelling as they express themselves through their own lived experience. Students will be the main character; the producer; the sound designer; the lighting engineer, and learn to communicate meaning through storytelling. Students will learn to differentiate between fact and fiction and become content creators instead of passive consumers of media. Students will gain a wide understanding of how their story, and the stories of history, work as building blocks for their own video projects.
In this course, students will become inspired filmmakers as they learn to comprehend the power of storytelling to express their ideas. These young filmmakers will advance their skills and experience as they learn, through creating, the FUN-damentals of Storytelling.
Your life, your story. Students will dive into the art of storytelling as they express themselves through their own lived experience. Students will be the main character; the producer; the sound designer; the lighting engineer, and learn to communicate meaning through storytelling. Students will learn to differentiate between fact and fiction and become content creators instead of passive consumers of media. Students will gain a wide understanding of how their story, and the stories of history, work as building blocks for their own video projects.
This course is one of our flagship Tech Camp experiences, infused with hands-on, project-based learning, designed to equip students with 21st-century technology skills. Students will engage in real-world problem solving and collaborate with fellow students to create solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems.
By the end of this course:
Students will be able to…
Comprehend the history and basis for storytelling
Create unique and inspiring stories using media
Share their stories with an audience
Learn to work with individual and group digital media projects
Understand basic elements, the building blocks of digital media
Students will create…
Simple cinema toys
Storyboards
Mini-documentaries
Scripts
Fictional Videos
Course content
Unit 1: Why Moving Pictures? Lesson 1.1 – Cinema and Storytelling Lesson 1.2 – Image and Text Lesson 1.3 – Types of Moving Pictures Lesson 1.4 – Make Your Own Moving Picture
Unit 2: What’s Your Story? Lesson 2.1 – Documentary vs Fictional Narrative Lesson 2.2 – How to Interview Lesson 2.3 – Intentional Camera Lesson 2.4 – Fictional Stories Lesson 2.5 – Create a Project
Unit 3: Crafting a Catchy Story Lesson 3.1 – Advertising Basics Lesson 3.2 – Media Literacy Concepts and Storyboarding Lesson 3.3 – PSA vs Commercial – More Media Literacy Lesson 3.4 – “Edited in the Camera” – Ad Production
Unit 4: Fables, Folktales and Fairytales Lesson 4.1 – Fable & Universal Themes Lesson 4.2 – Folk Tales & Cultural Themes Lesson 4.3 – Elements of Fictional Narrative Lesson 4.4 – Dramatic Skit – Production
Unit 5: Your Story Revealed Lesson 5.1 – How to Script Your Story Lesson 5.2 – Cinematography and Sound Lesson 5.3 – Picture Production Lesson 5.4 – Sound Production Lesson 5.5 – Final Production Results and Showcase
Computer:
Laptop or desktop computer running Windows or macOS that meets the minimum specifications of the hardware and software listed below.
Pens, pencils, coloured pencils, markers, sharpies, stapler, cardstock (white and black), paper, cellophane tape, masking tape, scissors, rubber cement or glue, rubber bands or string, and a notebook for each student.
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