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Want to start making high quality media content but don't know where to get started? Join Utah Film Center's Media Education Department as they guide you through equipment and tips for any budget. For more information or to bring Utah Film Center to your K-12 classroom, please visit www.utahfilmcenter.org/education . Film by Fill It In Productions http://www.fillitinproductions.com/ .

This lesson is for art teachers interested in brining film making into their setting. Students will be asked to create a piece that looks at their "purpose." It should be treated a celebration of the student, where others identify strengths of their classmates, and create a film on it. 

This is a lesson plan designed to deeped understanding of real world, multistep math problems for the 5th grade.  It could be adapted to any grade level.  Students will need to understand basic math operations and apply them to either act out a real world problem, or act as the teacher and take a deep dive in how to solve the problem presented.  It is designed mostly to use with metric and customary conversions, but could be applied to any real world problem.

This lesson plan promotes the use of written and spoken academic language by multilingual students. It is based on secondary standards. It uses filmmaking to bring writing and speaking together while focusing on academic langauge. Photo by Jeswin Thomas on Unsplash

This is a lesson introducing students to storyboards and beginning to think about how to create a story to film in a future lesson. Students will work backward to write a storyboard for a short film, will brainstorm and outline their story they want to share, and will then flesh it out as a storyboard and will think about the shot the want, the audio they want to add and they will revise their lessons based on feedbakc from teachers and peers.

This is a lesson plan for third grade students. Students will choose one math skill or concept they learned this year and come up with a real world example of that concept. For example, finding the perimeter of their yard for a fence. They will create a three scene storyboard and then act out their storyboard. With the help of the teacher, they will film this example and later share it with the class. Students will peer review each others videos and participate in a discussion about the topic.  

This lesson was created to help elementary-aged students better understand the world around them through the use of Flat Stanley.

In this Level Up, you will learn why b-roll is key to powerful storytelling, and tips for capturing compelling visuals for any video story. This resource includes a video and teaching resources.

This YouTube video will help you with the stop motion animation process. "Stop motion is actually a really easy thing that everyone could integrate into their videos. Here, I start out with a broad overview of where you could start..."

This lesson plan utilizes filmmaking to motivate students speaking Chinese, most importantly, to give a presentation with the key vocabulary/phrases and sentence structures that they have learned. The aim is to apply what they have learned into their daily life.(This resource's preview image is from YouTube and is openly licensed.)

Watch this quick video to get tips on how to properly focus using a camera

Recording a video diary is one of the best ways to tell your own story. Take a look at these tips from some of SRL's producers (and with help from some of our student journos) on how to record your own.

An interview, video diary, or news package is enhanced when you can get some shots that visually represent what was said on camera. In this Level Up tutorial, SRL will show you how to use your phone to record b-roll.

Learn how to become a better visual storyteller by analyzing and creating your own video sequences.

Capturing a quality interview is essential for a documentary film or journalistic reporting. This video provides tips to get quality interview footage for your film projects. For more Media Education programming, please visit our website at www.utahfilmcenter.org/education .

Scouting your location to film, how to light it properly, and how to capture sound is essential to a quality film product. This video breaks down the basic tips for location, lighting and sound to use in your next film production! For more Media Education programming, please visit www.utahfilmcenter.org/education .

This lesson plan utilizes filmmaking to solidify student understanding of scientific phenomena related to matter. While the plan is tied to 5th grade SEEd standards, it can be adapted to meet any SEEd standard at any grade level, particularly in upper elementary, middle school, and high school.  (This resource's preview image was created by the author of this lesson plan.)

This lesson plan utilizes filmaking to learn the concept of the 3P's (products, practices and perspectives) of Hispanic culture. This lesson is meant to be taught in Spanish, but can be adapted to other languages. (Thumbnail image was created by the author of this lesson plan.)

Students will go through the writing process to create a video that shows a multistep word problem.