' Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor, he just tears him up. ' - Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Using Digital Blue Movie Maker
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Below is published a list of links to online information and resources to help and inspire your work with film and video at primary level.
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Ideas for Using Digital Video in Key Stage 1/Foundation Stage
Colour (find and explore each colour in groups eg. painting, sorting objects, displays, etc)
Shape (explore/create shapes eg. PE, model making, drawing etc))
Fairy Tale (act out scenes from the story, what did the characters say when...?, language in context etc)
Myself (each child talks all about me)
Our Classroom (decide on aspects of the class/ room to be filmed, what we do, where we do, how we do)
My School (a virtual tour of the school)
Story Recount (traditional, updated, multicultural etc)
Nursery Rhyme (actions and words or, guess the rhyme?)
Number Rhyme (actions and words, making sets of numbers in different contexts)
What happens next? (listen to a story start and decide on what happens next)
Shared reading - then? (devise next part of the story)
Alternative endings (groups plan and act out different endings)
Counting (cardinal/ordinal numbers in context)
Times of the Day (what we do when)
Through the window (what we can see through different windows in the school - and a commentary)
Instructions (visual and oral demonstration over how to make/do something)
Phonic Trail (looking for things with the same sound - oral and visual)
People Who Help Us (acting out the things each person does)
How to...( tie your shoe laces, play a game, take the register etc)
Patterns (look for/create patterns in and around the classroom, PE, etc)
Changes ( before and after, growing, behaviour, cooking etc)
Ideas for Using Digital Video in Key Stage 2
Alternative endings (plan and devise modern version, sad/happy, scary/funny, different outcomes etc in groups)
What happens next? (responses to a picture/scenario/film clip/issue/news report etc)
PSHCE: (bullying, friendship issues, strangers, safety, keeping healthy etc)
Problem and resolution (solutions for solving a problem - losing something, making a mistake, forgetting, arguments etc))
Video Diary (as a story character, in the future/past, at a special time in history, as a witness to an important event etc)
Character study (the actions, reactions, mannerisms, language and features of a character from a text, how would the character behave if...?, commentary on events from the point of view of the character etc)
News Report (plan, write and direct report to be read on screen, interpret an event, describe from different points of view, interviews etc)
Questions and Answers (Ask a question and demonstrate the answer, eg Why does it rain? Why do plants grow? etc)
Adverts (imaginary product, linked to DT, persuasive writing etc)
Interview (historical characters, witnesses to an event, people in the news or in a story/poem)
Re-enactment in history (act out a scene from a story in the past, develop dialogue for scene as a child is evacuated in WW2 or a family experiences the great fire of London, recreate a Viking settlement, aspects of the life of a famous person etc)
Tour of the school (a virtual tour for a particular audience, a tour that creates the ‘wrong’ impression, a guide for younger children, grandparents who came to the school in the past etc)
Story/poem into a play (Humpty Dumpty as it really happened, Red Riding Hood, the wolf’s version of events etc )
Local issue (commentary and images)
Environmental issue (national/ global issues such as poverty, disease, natural disasters etc key messages)
Story opening (groups plan and create versions of an opening chapter or paragraph for the same title eg ‘The day the sky fell down’)
Scene in a play/chapter in a story
Ordinary into extraordinary (something remarkable/ unusual happens)
A day in the life of... (an imaginary person, fictional or historical character, in the past or future)
Science experiment (video and describe stages)
Designing and making processes (video and describe stages)
Resources and Examples
Digital Blue™ A Quick Start Guide
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For more information about these resources, or to share your own please contact:
Lynn Kelsey, Teaching and Learning Consultant, Primary ICT
Tel: (01482) 392497
E-mail 1: lynn.kelsey@eastriding.gov.uk
E-mail 2: primary.ict@eastriding.gov.uk
David Mell, Teaching and Learning Consultant, Creative Arts
Tel: (01482) 392466
E-mail: david.mell@eastriding.gov.uk
Beth Crookes, Teaching and Learning Consultant, KS3 Foundation
Tel: (01482) 392495
E-mail: beth.crookes@eastriding.gov.uk
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