Back again!
Today we’ll
talk about how to make a basic movie production.
A movie
production is divided into 3 parts: The pre-production, the production and the
post-production.
First there
will be some pre work to the actual production, and that would be to have the student
put in groups. Depending on what they need to make a movie about for the best
result a group should be at least 3 people. So one can be behind camera and two
in front.
Now we’ll
start in the pre-production
The first
step is the same as a podcast they brainstorm a topic or genre and content of
their movie.
Step 2:
They start thinking about setting and ideas for where and when the movie takes
place.
Step 3:
They come up with a manuscript. In the manuscript they should of course have the
lines of the different people in the movie. But they should also have some of
the setting in there, the person’s movement and the person’s emotions.
Here is an
example on a piece of a script.
Title of movie
(Description on what is going on, maybe a
presentation of characters)
It could be: Carl is walking into the kitchen.
He looks around. It’s a mess. You can see on his face he is frustrated. He runs
his hands through his hair.
Carl: sights
Maria walks into the kitchen. His face shows
guilt. She knows Carl isn’t happy.
Maria: “I’m sorry”
She walks closer to Carl. Carl takes a step
back.
Maria: “I was cleaning. When a man knocked on
the door. He came to talk to me about…
This is
just a really short example on a script. A faster way of doing a script is just
to write down what each person needs to say. That’s probably the easiest and
first way of making a script. A script is used for the actors to know what they
are saying, how they are supposed to react and where they are going.
After the
script a storyboard is made.
A
storyboard is used to visualize the movie. A storyboard can be drawn by hand or
be done digitally in different programs or witch pictures.
A
storyboard is a picture that shows what the first scene will look like. Then
there should be a description of what angel that is used. Is it more people
seen in full perspective, or one person seen in an off the shoulder and only
from mid waits and up? Then the lighting should also be described. It could be
if the light should come from the right, because it will create a shadow on a
person’s face, which will help create a certain mood. You will be able to just
google storyboard outline and they look at the picture, and there will be a
template for a storyboard or you/they can use Pixton (a tool on Skoletube, we’ll
talk more about Skoletube later).
| Storyboard made in Pixton, Skoletube. |
Now the
storyboard and script should be done. Then it’s time for the student to film
their movie, or the production. Depending
on which recourses the school has, the student can record on their phones,
iPads, computer or cameras (if the school has that).
Something
to keep in mind is. The students might not follow their storyboard to the
fullest, and that is okay, because it is hard to figure our exactly what to do
and put in the movie, before you start recording. Sometimes the location they
want to use, might not work. Maybe they want to film outside but it’s raining
so they have to change things. So they should be aware that what they have
plans might not be what’s going to happen.
Then we get
into the post-production, the
editing. There are many different programs
that can be used for editing. If the students or school have iPads or mac
computers, they will be able to use iMovie,
which is a free program for apple products. It is pretty easy to use, there are
many things you can do, speed up and slow down clips, cutting, but clips on top
of each other, put in sounds/music and so on. It’s easy to figure out. Then
there is a program called Adobe premiere
pro, which is harder to use, but the movies can get better and you need to
buy it (the school can buy it). Then if the school have access to Skoletube,
there are also an editing program called MovieCut.
It is the easiest program to use. Since you can’t do much besides cutting and
layering the film and adding sounds,
but in MovieCut, the film can’t be more than 20 minutes long.
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You can easily add sounds effects or background music. For free sounds, there's not copyrightet go to freesounds.org and find music that fit's the mood of the movire.
Then the
movie need to render (converting into a movie), and it’s ready to be shown for
the class.
That’s it
for today, we’ll post a movie later showing how to use iMovie.
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