Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Targets:
Beyond the obvious targets which were:
To learn why the short shots scenes are used
To learn how to edit a short clip in the movie maker
To be actors/actresses
We had some other targets too, not so obvious
- those were :
To feel comfortable in front of the camera. This
was the key point for the success of the project. If
some of the pupils had been reacted bad and had
been refused to perform the role, the whole project
couldn't being proceed as in a such program is
needed the totally class participation.
Pupils from both school to make the first
contact in a funny way as the main idea (beyond
the other targets) of the this stage was to break the
ice and all students to feel comfortable and enjoy
the coming up activities.
Stage 2: Medium shots scenes
Pupils worked on paper so as to prepare the
storyboard for some medium shot scenes
There were three types of scenes here :
One with the narrator alone to say something
One with the narrator(s) in front and an object in
the background.
One with an object in front and the narrator(s) in
the background.
This is the stage where school subjects started to
be parts of the project.
There were 4 different sub-stages here according to
agreed targets:
1st sub-stage with the title: Let's play and teach
each other
This was the logical step after the previous main
stage and served the target of knowing each other
better through a game.
likes.
Pupils had to work with Movie Maker and edit their
own video clip adding a music theme on the
background.
Pupils had to prepare a PowerPoint presentation
with their likes.
All these were uploaded onto our TwinSpace and
the pupils from the other country had to match
video clip with the PowerPoint presentation thus to
“find who likes what”
Targets:
To learn why the medium shots scenes are used.
To learn how to edit a short clip in Movie Maker and
to add music in the background.
To speak for the first time in front of the camera
and thus to exercise their oral ability but also their
ability to listen to a foreign language, trying to
match a video clip with a PowerPoint presentation.
2nd substage with the title : Tradition or Merry
Christmas
The idea here was to know each other’s
tradition
Activities
Teams prepared a storyboard for shooting their
classmates singing traditional carols and songs in
their own language and in English as well, and a
storyboard where the narrator explained a
traditional custom.
Pupils prepared cards with Christmas wishes.
Pupils of both schools prepared a “parcel of
surprise”, to send to the others, filled with the
above cards and some traditional sweets of each
country.
Activities in this stage were:
Pupils had to prepare a medium shot clip with their
Pupils worked with Movie Maker to edit the above
scenes and to make a video clip with photos.
34