Video 1

Mon-We will begin the Read Across America Unit. The students will be choosing a children's book and capturing the images from the pages and using them to tell the story with narration, music, sound fx, transitions and more. Prior to break, we reviewed a popular book and then looked at the movie version with focus on how it was adapted from the pages of a book to the big screen. How did a 20 page book turn into a 90 minute movie?

Tuesday and Wednesday will be used to select our book for this project.

Wednesday-Continuation of Tuesday

Thursday and Friday- Pictures/lighting and importing of files for the editing process

Video II

Monday/Tuesday- Critique and review of project submissions. Student groups will meet with me to watch and talk about their work with immediate feedback. We will look for areas of improvement as well as areas of success!

Wednesday -Review of adapted screenplay movies from Hollywood and from last year's work.

Thursday-SOUND/MUSIC/SOUND Effects We will look at how Hollywood uses Sound, music and effects to enhance their ability to tell a story. We have a documentary on Sound/Music from the Harry Potter series.

Friday- Quiz on Sound/Effects and Adapted Screenplay

General Standards for Exercises

• NA-VA.9-12.1 Conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques and processes they use.

• NA-VA.9-12.1 Students initiate, define and solve challenging visual arts problems independently, using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

• NA-VA.9-12.6 Students synthesize the creative and analytical principles and techniques of the visual arts and other selected arts disciplines.

Video III-IV

Monday/Tuesday- Critique and review of project submissions. Student groups will meet with me to watch and talk about their work with immediate feedback. We will look for areas of improvement as well as areas of success!

Wednesday-Introduction of our next movie making project. Read Across America Challenge! We will be adapting children's books into short films. To jumpstart thinking and to provide an example, we will be watching an adapted screenplay movie that was taken from a popular book.

Tentative schedule for this project is

START MONDAY 1/2/12
SCRIPT DUE MONDAY 1/9/12
ROUGH CUT THURSDAY 1/18/12
FINAL CUT WEDNESDAY 1/25/12

General Standards for Exercises

• NA-VA.9-12.1 Conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques and processes they use.

• NA-VA.9-12.1 Students initiate, define and solve challenging visual arts problems independently, using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

• NA-VA.9-12.6 Students synthesize the creative and analytical principles and techniques of the visual arts and other selected arts disciplines.

Theater

GRADES 9 - 12

• NA-T.9-12.1 Script Writing by Planning and Recording Improvisations Based on Personal Experience and Heritage, Imagination, Literature, and History
• NA-T.9-12.2 Acting by Assuming Roles and Interacting in Improvisations
• NA-T.9-12.3 Designing by Visualizing and Arranging Environments for Classroom Dramatizations
• NA-T.9-12.4 Directing by Planning Classroom Dramatizations
• NA-T.9-12.6 Comparing and Connecting Art Forms by Describing Theatre, Dramatic Media (Such as Film, Television, and Electronic Media), and Other Art Forms
• NA-T.9-12.7 Analyzing and Explaining Personal Preferences and Constructing Meanings from Classroom Dramatizations and from Theatre, Film, Television, and Electronic Media Productions
• NA-T.9-12.8 Understanding Context by Recognizing the Role of Theatre, Film, Television, and Electronic Media in Daily Life