How to kill a vampire - instructional videos

To close our topic on Robert Swindell's Room 13, we have been developing our instructional writing by informing people how to kill a vampire. You never know when a vampire could cross your path (pardon the pun) so this information is vital!

We started off writing individual pieces. Then in pairs we wrote a BookCreator pamphlet.

Using Book Creator to make digital leaflets of our instructional writing: How to kill a vampire! #Room13 pic.twitter.com/6bJNFJLXsj

— Llanharan Yr 5/6 (@lps140club) May 16, 2018

Finally, in groups we combined everything to make an instructional video, going from initial idea, to storyboarding, script writing, filming and then editing. Pupils used themes and sound effects from iMovie and some groups created their own score using Garageband which they imported into iMovie.

Starting to edit our Room 13 'How to kill a vampire' instructional videos. @intofilm_cymru pic.twitter.com/dcuFRMCNt8

— Llanharan Yr 5/6 (@lps140club) May 24, 2018

Here are our four instructional videos:


Here are the PDFs of their BookCreator pamphlets:
https://hwbwave15-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/robertsr85_hwbcymru_net/Eh4EF7ofaa1KqSNnS6xZ9DoBrfgClJVaB1tmVC9UidJfzw?e=mwOfcP

Final drafts of writing inspired by watching 'Dracula's Whitby'.

Following on from the previous post, here are some of the final drafts of the writing inspired by watching 'Dracula's Whitby'.

Writing inspired by watching 'Dracula's Whitby'

As part of our author focus study of Room 13 by Robert Swindells, we watched a short animated film called 'Dracula's Whitby' by The Flying Buttress Productions'.

We discussed what words came to our mind when watching certain parts of the films, then used online thesaurus to find appropriate synonyms to stretch our vocabulary.

We then wrote a 1st person diary account of walking up the path to the Abbey as if we were in the film.

Here are some of our efforts: