THE SHORT FILM "OFF-LINE"
The 11th Lyceum Peristeriou (as a beneficiary organization) funded a fiction film production workshop on “short film making from scratch” organized by “Karpos”, a centre for education and intercultural communication for the A class students (16 years old).
About 40 students and 6 teachers participated the theoretical part and 12 students, 3 teachers in the shooting the scenes part.
Research and thematic concepts were developed through democratic processes. Scriptwriting, exchange of ideas, team work and activities with digital cameras and microphones were the basic tools before actual film production aiming at encouraging students’ need to express, communicate and speak in a new language.
Our short film “Off-line” is a product of students’ idea and deals with the impact of internet in our everyday life. In the story students added elements such as our relationship with our parents, the opposite sex and our friends as well as alternative ways of having fun apart from being online.
The workshop was based on 10 two-houred meetings scheduled as follows:
1st: initial idea brainstorm scenario
2nd: Visualize script storyboard design
3rd: Preparation filming, learning camera and microphone through use
special exercises
4th: Selection of spaces, actors rehearse
5th / 6th / 7th: Spin
8th: Select the traffic filmed material
9th: Image Editing
10th: Sound Editing
Considering that the workshop took place at the end of the lessons and during weekends, depending on participants’ heavy schedule, it actually started in January and finished in April.
It is really amazing the fact that several members of the school community were given the chance to participate, even teachers and parents acting roles.
In terms of dissemination of new knowledge throughout our Erasmus+ project partnership, the participant students shared their knowledge during the short term activity in Barreiro, Portugal and took the initiation to partly reform the scenario and shoot their own scenes in order to move on to montage phase together as a following up activity.
About 40 students and 6 teachers participated the theoretical part and 12 students, 3 teachers in the shooting the scenes part.
Research and thematic concepts were developed through democratic processes. Scriptwriting, exchange of ideas, team work and activities with digital cameras and microphones were the basic tools before actual film production aiming at encouraging students’ need to express, communicate and speak in a new language.
Our short film “Off-line” is a product of students’ idea and deals with the impact of internet in our everyday life. In the story students added elements such as our relationship with our parents, the opposite sex and our friends as well as alternative ways of having fun apart from being online.
The workshop was based on 10 two-houred meetings scheduled as follows:
1st: initial idea brainstorm scenario
2nd: Visualize script storyboard design
3rd: Preparation filming, learning camera and microphone through use
special exercises
4th: Selection of spaces, actors rehearse
5th / 6th / 7th: Spin
8th: Select the traffic filmed material
9th: Image Editing
10th: Sound Editing
Considering that the workshop took place at the end of the lessons and during weekends, depending on participants’ heavy schedule, it actually started in January and finished in April.
It is really amazing the fact that several members of the school community were given the chance to participate, even teachers and parents acting roles.
In terms of dissemination of new knowledge throughout our Erasmus+ project partnership, the participant students shared their knowledge during the short term activity in Barreiro, Portugal and took the initiation to partly reform the scenario and shoot their own scenes in order to move on to montage phase together as a following up activity.
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