Making+Historial+Movie+Trailers

2pm Movie Trailers in Social Studies Carla Fitzgerald  Cfitzgerald@Billerica.k12.ma.us Middle School World History

Her Presentation: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AQTU8EAMKPaWZGc2NXZ3a21fNDFkM21qNWRmeg&hl=en_US

A quick summary of her presentation: *Creating Movie Trailers offers students low barriers to artistic expression *Students have strong support from each other *They believe it matters

Engagement-students collect information and create meaningful performances

Her plan:

1. What is a trailer- overview of plot includes *Quick scenes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Dialog <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Music <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Enough to peak interest <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Possible exemplar trailers: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//A Knights Trail// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Kingdom of heaven// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Joan of Arc// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From Internet Movie Data Base <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and Digital Book Talk <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://digitalbooktalk.com/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. What is a script and parts of script? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*main characters <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Opposition <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Fight <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Storyboard emphasizing what viewers will see and hear

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Storyboards- make posters <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sounddogs.com <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aviaryeducation.com/roc music creator <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Props/costume

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Production-grants from digital wish <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Make Internet TV-tips for filming <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-use Moviemaker <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-while editing others make poster with Glogster.com <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-sharing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Final product is 2-3 minutes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow up with Oscar ceremony!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Challenges: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Time limits <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resources- lab time, costumes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parent volunteers

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exemplar trailers: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http:/delicious.com/carlafitz/trailer