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The HECB is looking for middle and high school students who like to make videos. We’re holding a contest to stimulate your best creative work. The challenge? Make a video encouraging your fellow students to start on the path to a college education. The HECB Student Film Contest is open to students in grades 7-12 [...]

Students (MS and HS) around the world collaborated to do this cool rotoscoping animation project. This video content will be blocked at school… so you will need to check it out at home. Rotoball 2009 from The Carrot Revolution on Vimeo. All these links were screened and found acceptable for middle school students, however since most [...]

Originally Published: Saturday, January 17, 2009 By Katya Yefimova EVERETT Herald Writer Movie contest feeds their ambition Two Everett siblings prove to be fearless filmmakers When Brandon Bolanos was in fourth grade, he got to play Wilbur in “Charlotte’s Web.” He loved it. Since then, the 14-year-old North Middle School student has directed, filmed and [...]

See Star Fish Example video Students will work in groups of 3 to storyboard and create a paper or object animation that shows a visual pun. The puns were drawn out of a hat to determine random grouping. Timeline: Friday Jan 16 Groups and words selected Tue Jan 20 Storyboard your animation plan; Prepare sets and [...]

The Door Movie: Using AFI curriculum, students created a short video about a door. They then added music and sound effects in Windows Movie Maker to complete the movie. The entire process included storyboards, multiple camera angles, shooting, editing and reshooting. Although students worked in small groups to film, they each edited their own version [...]