Based on ideas from the Guides, we devoted the first two weeks of May to storyboarding, scripting, designing and creating our own mini-movies!Each week started with our usual opening ceremony, followed by an active game before diving into our activities for the evening.
We broke up the steps to help everyone be successful. Our broad steps were:
- Brainstorm - Come up with ideas for your topic, setting and characters.
- Who, What, When, Where, Why - Create a brief overview of your movie, answering the 5 W questions.
- Storyboard - Design each scene in your movie on paper, including what each character will do.
- Scrip - Write your script to match each scene on your storyboard.
- Produce - Create your props, costumes, cartoons, LEGO structures, etc. and rehearse your movie.
- Film - Check in with a Guider and make your movie a reality!
- Edit - Watch your movie on the computer and make any changes needed.
To get everyone thinking, we started off with a brainstorming session about the types of movies that could be made and ideas for themes and topics. Everyone them broke up into groups or decided to work alone. We had three individuals doing LEGO based movies, one working on Anime, and another on cartooning, then one group making an advertisement and two groups creating live action videos.
Each Guide/Group worked to map out their movie using words and pictures, before moving onto creating the images, structures and supplies they would need to put their plans into action.
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Production, filming and editing took place the second week and resulted in 7 unique videos that we will be showing at Advancement.
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Each week ended with clean-up and reminders for next week, and closed with Taps.
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