Team+Robot+Cheetahs+Movie+Editing+Exercise

Team Robot Cheetahs learned about how a movie is made. We began by watching a silent movie made by Ms. Kate. media type="custom" key="6591267"

Then the students had to say who the author is, what the story is, the type of media and the purpose. Afterward, we discussed definitions (sequence, editing, shot) and the students had the opportunity to understand their new definitions by playing a game called Spot the Shot. Every time a shot happens in the clip, the students clap. We used Ms. Kate's film, Antonioni's Blow Up end scene and a Dawn commercial.

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The students were divided into three groups after the game and given the opportunity to edit their own story. Ms. Kate provided the students with three images of a dog doing different activities: sleeping, playing, eating. Then each group had to come up with a **new sequence** for the images to create a different story about the what the dog did today. Each student had the opportunity to move the clips in an editing program, Final Cut Pro, to move the images around. Here are the final edits. media type="youtube" key="W9LB22C0kc8" height="344" width="425"