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Final Film Work

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CIS
The FINAL PROJECT
 
The Doll’s House; and The Yellow Wallpaper
Beloved  
Their Eyes Were Watching God   
Invisible Man  
In the Time of the Butterflies
Solar Storms
Grapes of Wrath
The Kite Runner
Giovanni’s Room  
Persepolis 
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 
1984    
The Things They Carried  
 Into the Wild  
Poetry  
Poisonwood Bible  
Poetry/Stories   
 
The Challenge: Students –-in groups of 1, 2, 3 or 4--will produce a podcast or movie that EXPANDS or ELABORATES one of the themes, key ideas, or passions from the texts we read this semester.   Think “documentary with a literary twist.” Ideally, final movies will be digital, and posted on the class website and wiki for posterity.
 
The final product should :
  1. Be anywhere from 3-8 minutes long
  2. Have audio-recorded from you, from the author, from interviews …background music….
  3. Have visual images—video you have taken, video from the web, still images…
  4. Be as creative as you want it to be.
  5. Be finished by Thursday, January 17 for a class film festival

 

A Few Models from another CIS Class: 

 
 
TIMELINE
Thursday, January 3                                       Introduce the project in class
January 7-11                                                    Select partners, concept, storyboard
                                                                           Collect audio, video, images, etc.
                                                                           (Discuss Poisonwood Bible)
January 14-16                                                 Finalize the film project in the lab
                                                                           (Discuss poetry)
January 17                                                       Present to class                                              
January 18                                                       Final Class
 
DETAILS
Cameras: Our school has one available that you may check out. I suggest that as you form your groups, we make certain that each group has access to its own camera.
 
Lab Time: I will attempt to sign out the lab for us on January 14, 15 and 16.
 
Roles:   Assign roles within the group. Head Writer, Film Director, Lead Editor
            Storyboard Lead, Sound Editor.
 
 
SUGGESTED “PATH” of SUCCESS..
1.        Make a storyboard! Include visual and audio needs with each frame. Estimate times….
2.       Write everything out (script) and plan as much as you can BEFORE you begin shooting!
3.       It really helps if everyone has a “job”—. Of course you can all help with each—but these are the one who make decisions.
4.      Forge ahead—you can get really caught up in the details, which is great…but know when to move on.
5.   Be creative! Use your own music or include your own photography or artwork.
 
 
IDEAS…
v     Take a clip(s) from a Vietnam movie… and text from TTTC… Tie it together. Use 60’s music
v     Interview a Vietnam vet—add music –and quotes (written) from TTTC
v     Take a few clips from Iraq video- off UTube or news sites …and connect it to TTTC or Persepolis or Kite Runner  
v     Take a current event and connect it to a text we read…
v     Interview from the author—(send an email?) put images to it and intersperse textual quotes.
v     Any home footage? Collection of imagery that connects to a text.
v     Incorporate a common journal from group members into the video/podcast
 
 
 
 

 

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