One of the challenges my middle school digital media kids have is making coherent movies. I give them some guidelines to help, including:
- make sure every shot is moving the story
- use multiple shots in your scenes
- start shots as early as possible and end them as soon as possible
- perform with energy
Because they’re working on foundational skills, I don’t emphasize another truth that’s important in all creative activities: once you understand the rules, break them. This movie does all the things I tell my students to avoid, and that’s why it works.
FUN MOVIE ADVENTURES FACTS!
- This was the 100th film I watched at least once this year.
- 91 of those were films I had never seen before
- 10 were watched at home
- 10 were animated
- 3 were watched on an airplane
- exactly one was so boring that I left early.
Here are the graphics I made for all the films in the order I watched them:
