The Astronomer's Sun - Film Literacy Project - Making short films

To conclude our half term film literacy project using 'The Astronomer's Sun', the pupils were challenged with making their own short films. We looked at what we thought the main themes of the film were, and decided to use these as a basis for planning our own films.

Due to time constraints at the end of a term which is concluded with our Eisteddfod, I decided to try something different to account for the lack of time available. Last summer, we experimented with the 5x5 shot challenge, making a film where a story is told in 5 shots lasting 5 seconds each. CLICK For this project, I wanted to show a bit more storytelling whilst using the same premise - so I extended the time to 10 seconds, whilst keeping the 5 shot element.

After a creative planning session in their home groups, pupils began planning out their ideas, storyboarding, scripting and allocating roles.

Starting planning our #filmliteracyproject films with an adaptation of the 5x5 shot challenge - a story told in 5 shots each lasting 10 seconds. @intofilm_cymru @intofilm_edu pic.twitter.com/46CCMBPGYt

— Llanharan Yr 5/6 (@lps140club) February 20, 2019

The pupils then took their iPads and dashed around our school site, making their films. They then came into class and used iMovie to edit and publish their efforts.

Here they are: