Video Illustrations on Friendship
A wide shot to establish the conflict
Fourth graders take a theme-based group writing project on friendship, turn it into a video script, and produce video illustrations to share what they've learned
Watch the video:
The Process:
This fourth grade class had been discussing what it means to be a good
friend. Students explored the issue through writing and discussion. Working with their teacher and TMS, the students wrote two 3-sentence
stories based on their themes, then adapted those sentences into video
scripts. Students learned the basics of video production by figuring
out how their message could be communicated using images and sound by
storyboarding 3 “shots” for each script. Students had to decide between
“close-ups”, “mid shots” or “wide shots” to express visually the
information in their written stories. Through this process they saw how
there were multiple ways to tell the same story.