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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------interests to participate on the preferable for them activities. In addition, through the various activities, they developed the sense of solidarity, of teamwork and co-operation took initiatives and created original material based on the school subjects. They improvised, disagreed and agreed, negotiated and protested and eventually, through the project, they not only improved their performance as students but also came out better prepared so as to deal with any upcoming challenge. The development of the project was a sequence of three stages which were designed based on the three main kinds of movie shots (short shot, medium shot and long shot). During these stages pupils learnt the way to edit a movie, add subtitles, music background , convert a movie to 3D and to create their own storyboards with their own scenarios, to be actors/actresses and finally to shoot their own scene based on a school subject. In the development of these stages, they also learnt how the music or the different angle shots can affect the final result of the movie and how a movie can affect the common opinion. In addition there was a fourth stage where pupils from the partner schools created in collaboration a "treasure hunt" movie, promoting their city’s landmarks. skills for film production. Activities Practice on the use of the camera Practice on the story board Practice on the close-up scenes Prepare a story board and take short shots based on the following facial expressions Anger Fear Happiness Sadness Surprise Sickness Fatigue/Tiredness Practice on movie maker and production of the first clip using the above shots. Each pupil edits his own clip and puts the title of the expression at the beginning and the actor’s/actress’s name; and “the end” sign at the end of the clip. We also had a contest named: ...and the best actor is … Pupils from Greece voted for the best French actor/actress and pupils from France for the best Greek actor/actress. The detailed schedule is the following: Stage 1: Close-up scenes At this stage students of both countries began to familiarize themselves with the necessary basic 33