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Students Discuss the contributions of Albert Maysles to documentary filmmaking and learn how to correctly operate video recording and editing equipment to create a short film. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students examine the filmmaking process, and utilize digital video editing software to create short films. They create short films to educate people about the harmful environmental effects of pollution and the importance of recycling. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students think about what it was like when audiences flocked to movies that simply showed glimpses of everyday life. They make a film n the style of the earliest cinema, when moving pictures were just that -- moving images of everyday life. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students consider different stories and story-telling techniques of animated and live-action filmmaking, write proposals for animated films, and storyboard individual scenes. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore basic filmmaking by creating a short, in-camera video portrait of a classmate. They use professional vocabulary, create a storyboard, complete a shoot, and work as a team with their partner. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students examine filmmaking in Canada and participate in a debate. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students write a movie review on the challenges of making a film in Latin America. They focus on the countries of Brazil and Venezuela and work in pairs to interview a Latin America filmmaker. Full Review »
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- 5th - 9th
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Students identify the creative interplay of various texts by the filmmakers and characters from an episode of the television program, Noah and Saskia. They discuss the meaning of hybridity and are introduced to the concept of Y-charts as a tool for analysing intertextual references. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students focus on how filmmakers have changed their view of the Second World War. They create portfolios or their own documentary to investigate the various screen interpretations of the wartime era and explain different points of view on the same historical event. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss the difference between independent films and and films produced by a major studio. They select an independent filmmaker to research and begin their research from a list of given Web sites. When research is complete, they create a visual display such as a poster, scrapbook, or slide show presentation highlighting the career of the filmmaker. Full Review »