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Students from several countries crated rotoscoped animations.

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For this Assignment Students Picked a verb, Used MS PAINT to create a background , Used  PIVOT Stickfigure Animator to act out the word and then Used Windows Movie Maker to add music and title, credits.

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1st Period 8th Graders

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3rd Period 8th Graders

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Eight graders in Digital Video Class wrote a story about a person, place or event that impacted their life. They then had to collect and create visuals that told the story, record the story narration and put them together in either MS Photostory or Windows Movie Maker. This was their final project for second trimester.

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Personal Story by Emily B

Personal Story by Paige B

Personal Story by Anna S

Personal Story by Clarissa L

Personal Story by Leobardo C

Personal Story by Heather N

Personal Story by Brady P

Personal Story by Joseph B

Personal Story by Ciarra F

Personal Story by Austyn

Our 8th grade video students worked in partners to research and create a public service announcment on an important social topic. Pictures from Morgue Files and E-Library were used and Music from our KidCast Radio CD were used to put this together.

Anti-Animal Cruelty PSA by Anna, Emily and Holli

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Anti-Dog Fighting PSA by Kevin and Matt

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Anti-Eating Disorders by Liz and Olivia

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Anti-Animal Abuse by Heather and Tynikki

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Northwest High School and Middle School Film Festival, organized by the Media Educator’s Excellent Team. DEADLINE 4/13/08

Book Trailer Contest: make a video about a favorite book for Sno-Ilse Library and WIN a cool i-flip video camera More details here

“Science Matters” Video: In teams of 3 – 15 middle school students, under the supervision of their science teacher create a contest entry that promotes the relevance of science in everyday life and describe why Science Matters! Your entry may take any of the following forms: a Digital Story or Commercial (video); a Poster or Storyboard; a Power Point Presentation; a Public Service Announcement Script; a Song Recording, or an Essay. Video and audio entries must be no longer than two minutes. More details

WIN an iPod!

Student Video Podcast Contest about Leading Issues (like our public service announcments on teen drinking, political issues etc. see the list of topics here) http://www.proquestk12.com/access/custom/sirspodcon.shtml for more details. The First Prize winning entry in each category will receive an iPod for each contributing team member. The Second and Third Prize entries up will receive $25 in iTunes gift certificates for each team member

JRR Toilken Interview Author of the The Lord of the Rings

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R.L. Stine Interview Author of the Goosebumps Series

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Gary Paulsen Interview Author of the Hatchet

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Gordan Korman Interview Author of Swindle

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Christopher Paolini Interview Author of Eragon

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Harper Lee Interview Author of To Kill A Mockingbird

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Judy Blume Interview Author of Freckle Juice

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Louis Sachar Interview Author of HOLES

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Sharon Creech Interview Author of Love that Dog

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Lemony Snicket Interview Author of the Series of Unfortunate Events

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Ann Brashares Interview Author of the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

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JK Rowling Interview Author of Harry Potter Series

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and more coming soon!

By Ahmed Starring Ahmed

By Kevin Starring Kevin

By Anna

The American Film Institute created a great student film curriculum that I have been using with my 8th grade digital video arts classes.

In this assignment the kids had to shoot a film in a small group. the requirements were: one actor only, all filmed within 5 feet of the door. The actor was to walk up to the door, hear a frightening noise, react in fear, struggle to open the door, finally make it through the door and show relief that the strange noise was not in-fact dangerous.

The first day, they shot the film without any storyboard or planning, then they watched the outcome, learned more about camera angles and storyboards and wrote a storyboard. Next, to experience the importance of storyboards they had to re-shoot using the storyboard from a different group. Finally, they re-filmed their own storyboard. For the editing part, all students had to edit their own version from any footage from the several group sessions. They had to edit out all camera audio and use only music and sound effects to tell the story and build the suspense.

 2 finished films by different editors ~ Starring LIZ

door movie starring LIZ

2 finished films by different editors ~ Starring TANNER

door movie with tanner

paige door

door movie