Last lesson before half term

Todays lesson was all about finishing up the research and planning before we make our videos after half term.

Students learned about how to produce a storyboard to help with filming. They learned about how to put arrows inside the box to show the subject moving, and outside the box to show camera movement. They also needed to add the shot type, dialogue, sound effetcs and transitions.

They then got into their two groups to make their storyboards and scripts ready for filming after half term. Some finished off research on the topic and mood boards as well.

4th May Video prep

Today we started by getting into two groups - (Group A) Queen, Bisola and Roche in one and (Group B) Betsy, Yasmin and Jamilea in the other. They started to come up with ideas for their Human Rights films and drew spider diagrams. Group A would like to do child labour and group B would like to do the rights of young women in this country.

Next we finished looking at the films made by previous students on being Muslim and having HIV and suffering prejudice.

We learned about the different shot types, camera movements, mise en scene, sound and editing techniques and watched a short film by students to see them in action.

27th April Human Rights Video Analysis

Today we worked on writing up analyses of human rights videos made by young people. We looked at some on the Adobe Youth Voices website that were music videos about identity, respect and being a good role model. They were made in the USA and New Zealand.

We wrote down what they were about, things that worked well and what was less successful about them. We also wrote which articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights they relate to.

We then began to watch some of the adverts made by previous year 10 students.

Starting Human Rights before Easter

Firstly we all met in 915 to introduce the Human Rights Media element. We looked at photos, found out more about human rights and the tasks set, such as comparing our lives to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights list. We then divided up students into photography and film.

The film students came downstairs with me to look at some human rights films on these websites:
http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/youth-producing-change-2009
http://essentials.youthvoices.adobe.com/stories/video.aspx

We discussed which ones we liked and why and had a think about films we could make.

Youth Producing Change Festival 23.03.10

Today we went to this festival, which is part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the Ritzy in Brixton. We watched 10 films made by young people around the world, about various human rights issues such as AIDS orphans, child labour, the right to water, immigration, sexual violence etc.

The one that moved me the most was about orphans in Mozambique. It made me cry realising how little these children and teenagers have, and it definitely humbled me and made me want to do something to help.

I thought that the one made by an American girl about water was very well made. She used lots of different techniques to get her point across - interviewing experts, filming vox pops with people about their water consumption habits and she had clearly done a lot of research. She also carefully filmed lots of cutaway footage of water in stores, coming out of taps, in vending machines, and in reservoirs and lakes to make the voice over parts interesting visually.

The one about stop and search was also well made, with a creative use of the resources to recall and illustrate individuals' experiences.