This document discusses the benefits of integrating filmmaking into the curriculum. It argues that filmmaking supports different components of learning like creativity, communication, and critical thinking. Some benefits include enhancing language learning, increasing student motivation, and improving student-teacher relationships. The document then provides examples of easy filmmaking projects like creating a weather forecast or how-to video. It also outlines the filmmaking process from scriptwriting to editing. Integrating filmmaking can help reach curricular objectives by supporting topics across different subjects through short films.

2. Why integrate
filmmaking into the
curriculum?

3. Pedagogical and educational
benefits
Learning through filmmaking projects
supports all key components of learning:
•Creativity and innovation
•Communication and collaboration
•Research and information fluency
•Critical thinking and decision making

4. Pedagogical and educational
benefits
•Enhances language learning
•Involves all types of learners
•Increases students’ motivation
•Means of teaching the literacy
•Enhances relationship between students
and a teacher

5. Easy ideas for starting with video
•Weather forecast or class news
•Video interview
•Video survey
•How to video
•Video storytelling

6. What is Video Storytelling ?
•Video storytelling is telling a story using
digital tools
•Different media are combined(video, audio,
still images)
•It is a collaborative class project
•It is a process that consists of several stages

7. Filmmaking Process
•Stage1: Introduction to the filmmaking
process
•Stage 2 : Script writing
•Stage 3: Storyboarding
•Stage 4: Film Recording
•Stage 5: Video Editing
•Stage 6: Film Review-Students’ Feedback

8. Who makes the video?
•Students do the work
•Teacher acts as a facilitator and guide

9. Why put camera in the hands of
students?
• Learning becomes student –centred
• Increased students’ autonomy
•Students have a sense of accomplishment
• Learning by doing
•Students are learning and having fun doing it

10. Developing Story as a Method of
Learning
Teaching method 1:
Students work together in small groups.
Teacher provides a script framework for short
films.
Using teacher's script students infuse their
own creativity and imagination- such as genre,
location, characters, situation, etc. to make
teacher's words come alive in whatever story.

11. Developing a Story as a Method of
Learning
Teaching method 2:
Students write their own story. Some stories
can be recorded with the camera so that
students are given the chance to have their
voices heard. The best stories are chosen to
be filmed.

12. How filmmaking
helps reaching
curricular
objectives?

13. Video storytelling as a cross-curricular
activity
•Filmmaking can be extended to enhance
cross curricular teaching and learning.
•It can be integrated with the Music,
Foreign language, Environmental
protection, Geography, or History
curriculum.
Short film example: A Day in the Life of a School Bag

14. Video Storytelling as lesson
extension
•Another strategy is to focus on a
specific topic or grammatical unit
and use technology to support
instructional events within that unit.

15. Example 1: Tenses
Short film example: The Story of Change
Students work in small groups. They imagine they
are an item, something that is now old and
forgotten, but used to be very important in a kid’s
life. They tell their story using the following tense
guide:
•Early life: past simple
•Experiences: present perfect
•What will happen next : the future with will

16. The Story of Change
Books

17. Example 2 : Word formation
Short film example: The School Bag Love Story
•Teacher selects vocabulary
•Students have to create new words on the
basis of the existing ones and incorporate
them into their short film.

18. And the Storfie goes to...
Students review the finished short films and evaluate
the process and the final product

19. Video and audio editing software
•Movie Maker (Windows)
•Avidemux (Windows/Mac/Linux)
•Lightworks (Windows)
•Sony Vegas Pro -professional video
and audio editor
•Audacity –audio editing software

20. Legal music download sites
•Free Music Archive
•Royal Free Music Library
•Amazon
•MP3. com

21. Written permission from parents
This must be:
•printed
•signed by parent
•returned to school
Student work can only be published and
/or distributed with the permission of
the student and parents

22. Some Useful Tips
•Let your students do the job!
•Keep your videos short!
•Filmmaking as a homework assignment or a
combined schoolwork/homework activity
•Adapt filmmaking to your teaching context!
•Keep calm and stay flexible!
•Have Fun!

23. Just film it!