Archive for April, 2009
Worf and the Evil Inventor
Here’s what happens when you show silent films that are nearly 100 years old to some 7-year-olds: they roll on the floor laughing. Chaplin and Keaton. All you need.
Once they catch their breath, give them some toys to use as characters in their own stories with little or no input from outsiders ie “grown-ups”.
The goal was to let them work out their own creative differences, while only gently assisting them with making their own silent movies that made sense to them. Perhaps, to them alone.
Then, we made simple storyboards, title pages and backdrops for their first silent movies.
Each production team of 3 or so rehearsed at least once in front of the camera before we called out “Camera Rolling…” and “ACTION!”
The results are fascinating in each their own way, perhaps even more so as collections, though some do stand on their own quite well [click the image above to watch]
What Sound Does a Litterbug Make?
Sometimes we make our own Public Service Announcements [PSAs].
Broadcast PSAs came into widespread use in the late 1940′s with the famous “Only you can prevent forest fires” tagline of Smokey the Bear.
Most learners seem to create these around issues of cultural identity, sustainability and justice.
