Starting Bollywood

Today we started the new project - Bollywood. We are going to be making a short 20 minute film in which some people will be acting and singing, and others will be making and performing a puppet flash back sequence. There will also be an stop-motion animation title sequence and a 'making of' documentary. Students have already created the music for the titles and a dance sequence on the flexible day (write this up as a separate post).

Period 1 we were joined by Don, a professional film maker and Phillip, a scriptwriter. Don is going to be workign with us throughout the project, and he gave us all an intro to film making and wanted to find out a little bit all the class. Students then found out which groups they are in - Art/Media or Drama/Dance. We had a look at clips from ...................... film which is a modern Bollywood film set in New York. We watched a musical dance sequence which was very fast paced and bangra in style. There were a large number of female dancers dancing in unison in colourful costumes such as saris and more western short dresses. There were two males in red and black dancing at the centre. The mood was very light hearted.

For the remaining 15 minutes we split into Dance or Media. We looked at a clip on Youtube which was a 'making of' documentary for a stop motion animated advert. We talked briefly about the techniques used to make the animation and documentary.

We are also given HOMEWORK - to find out about animation and documentary genres and create fact sheets. DUE TUES 2nd FEB.