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Cerne Abbas Habitat Project

This film was made by Years 3 and 4 at Cerne Abbas First School for their science project on habitats. The pupils shot all the footage, scripted the film, performed the music, made the animations and edited about 60% of the film....

This project was undertaken to develop the communication skills and film making skills of Year 3 and 4 children at Cerne Abbas First School.  This project was also developed to support Article 29 of the Rights Respecting Schools agenda, 'Education should teach children to respect the natural environment'.

View the Cerne Abbas Habitats film >>>Click HERECACompost<<<

Their teacher (Mrs Jan Crisford) and I (Mark Richardson) wanted to develop the pupils's ICT skills whilst exploring aspects of their recent science project on habitats within the schools grounds. The students had also been recent studying the Romans in history and had made mosaics, this we saw as an opportunity to link the collage work which is also featured in the film and animated.

The management of this project was relatively straightforward. We had three habitats to make films about. We had 24 children and a full day to work with.

The children were split into four mixed ability groups, three groups made films about the three specific habitats and the fourth group made the links between each film.

The day was split into the following activities.

First half of morning:

  • Introduce days activity
  • Watch a Film for Learning
  • Watch an extract of the ‘Really Wild Show' (recorded using BBC iplayer)
  • Discuss how these films were made... using camera, different camera angle, ‘cutaways', narration, editing etc.
  • Explain how to use cameras
  • Brainstorm/Mind map task
  • Storyboard (-identify beginning middle and end)
  • Create simple Shot list.
  • Assign roles for each group member

Break

  • Shoot in groups

Lunch (We captured all footage over lunch and put all clips into collections in Moviemaker so pupils could be introduced to editing immediately after lunch break)

  • Introduction to editing using Moviemaker.... specifically drag and drop from collections and trim.
  • Make animations using photo facility on video cameras
  • Record music with pupils.
  • Last 15 minutes
  • View films with all pupils

The four films were edited together that evening so the children, staff and parents were able to watch the finished film first in assembly then at home through the FFL Theatre.


Cerne Abbas Habitat Project

Assessment Docunt are available >>>HERE<<< for Assessing Learning through FFL work in a Primary context.

The results from feedback provided by the pupils and staff will be available here soon.

Published Sep 04 2008, 08:32 PM by Markr
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