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Edit Like a Pro!

Discover innovative lesson plan ideas that teach students essential filmmaking concepts through engaging exercises. By using sequences like Hollywood movies, matching actions, and hands-on activities, students will learn key techniques to enhance their storytelling skills. Activities include taking still photos of school actions for sequencing practice, randomly constructing stories from cut-up sentences, and creating one-shot films that incorporate surprising elements. Students will also analyze the openings and closings of their favorite films, deepening their understanding of effective cinematic storytelling.

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Edit Like a Pro!

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  1. Edit Like a Pro! Lesson Plan Ideas

  2. Concepts: • Use sequences (like Hollywood!) • Match action • Exercise: • Have students take and print still photos of school action. Then have them lay out and rearrange the photos to experiment with sequencing and matching action

  3. Concept: • Avoid jump cuts • Make visual sense • Exercise: • Print a short story and cut the story up into individual sentences. Have students randomly draw sentences from a bag and try to construct a story and then tell you what it is about.

  4. Concept: • Surprise us • Exercise: • Have students shoot a one-shot film on phone or camera that ends with a surprise. They can contrive the situation,but let them explore what makes an effective surprise. Teach the difference between startling and surprising

  5. Concept: • Begin with an opening • End with a closing • Exercise: • Have students find clips of the opening and closing scenes of their favorite movies and show the class how they work to begin and end the film.

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