After our visit to the Big Eyes, Big Minds Singapore International Children's Film Festival, we because very interested in films! We talked a lot about our experiences back at school and had some questions:
First, we created plans for our films by drawing our ideas in small groups. Then we created scenes for our films with different objects in the classroom. When these were ready it was time to get the iPads. We took photographs on the app 'Smoovie' which turned them into stop motion animation films! When we replayed our films though we noticed that something was missing...sound! So we composed our own music in the app 'Garage Band' to match the feelings we wanted our films to have.
When the films and sounds were all done, Ms. Alison helped us put it all together on her laptop using iMovie. We chose our own backgrounds, colours and fonts to complete the title and credits screens.
- Is a film a story or just a film? (Lucy)
- How do you make a film? (Lea)
- How do stories become films? (Denzil)
First, we created plans for our films by drawing our ideas in small groups. Then we created scenes for our films with different objects in the classroom. When these were ready it was time to get the iPads. We took photographs on the app 'Smoovie' which turned them into stop motion animation films! When we replayed our films though we noticed that something was missing...sound! So we composed our own music in the app 'Garage Band' to match the feelings we wanted our films to have.
When the films and sounds were all done, Ms. Alison helped us put it all together on her laptop using iMovie. We chose our own backgrounds, colours and fonts to complete the title and credits screens.
When we watched our films, we were so excited about them that we said we wanted to have our own film festival. So Ms. Alison asked us a question: What do we need for a film festival? We independently collected all of our ideas in drawings. One of the things we said that we needed for a film festival were invitations. So we wrote invitations for all of the people we wanted to invite:
Finally it was time for the film festival! The first show was for our mums and dads. We also did shows for K1KB, our Grade 3SS buddies, and Ms. Alden and Ms. Jan.
Here are our films! We hope you like them!