A lesson plan for teaching students how to create powerful and impactful documentary style short films.Image
Film is a visual form of storytelling, and knowing different shot styles and basic cinematography tools is helpful to communicate your film's message. This video breaks down all the different common shot types and cinematography definitions. For more Media Education programming, please visit www.utahfilmcenter.org/education .
An overview of the purpose of the Spy Hop Art Shop videos.
In this video, Connor shows us a cheap and easy way to create a homemade tripod for your phone, so your camera footage isn't shakey!
In this video, Adam shows how to make miniature trees out of things you have in your yard or can get for cheap. These can be perfect for your forced perspective movies!
In this video, gabby explains how to stitch together a series of shorter clips to create movement, momentum and story.
In this video, Sam goes over some of the basic techniques to create the illusion of movement and speed when animating clay in stop motion.
In this video, Sam explains how cameras capture the depth of field of it's subject, and how this can be manipulated and altered to alter the mood of the clip.
In this video, Gabby explains how using B Roll footage in your film can help illustrate the topics your subject is talking about.
A well-planned film production is essential for strong content. Storyboarding can assist you and your filmmaking team with an efficient production phase of a film project. This short video provides key tips and tools to create storyboards. For more Media Education content, please visit www.utahfilmcenter.org/education .
This lesson is designed to get students acting as changemakers and contributing to the sustainable developments goals. Students will be tasked with creating a public service announcement to bring awareness to local or global challenges.
For this project, Students will be asked to instruct, inform, or teach others about a topic by making an instructional video.
Learn more about the 2023 Tumbleweeds Kids Film Competition and get tips from the Utah Education Network and the Utah Film Center about where you can find resources to support your students through the filmmaking process!
UEN Teacher Tips is a weekly series from the UEN Professional Development team. Every Tuesday, we'll share a new tip, how-to video and classroom resource. When life is busy and time is short, we hope these tips lead to bright ideas, just in time! This week's tip is "Personalized Learning Through Filmmaking" by Katie Blunt.
This activity is to help students be creative with some of the content they learn in Financial Literacy. Students will learn about taxes and then take it an extra step by creating a short film about what they learned. This can be used to help other students learn more about the complex tax system. Students can use a classroom video camera or their own device to record and edit.See an example video here. General Financial Literacy Strand 1 Standard 2Picture: “Taxes” by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels is free to use.
Self-paced lesson plan for students to analyze and think critically about different film elements as they take on the role of a film critic.
Self-paced lesson plan for students to experiment with different materials to create sound effects.
Study guides for various K-12 short films, including links to the videos.
Self-paced lesson plan for students to learn how to dissect films throughout history for implicit and explicit messages as it relates to the time they were created.
This recorded workshop teaches families how to get started with the basic concepts to make a great small film.