Finally we didn't make only one film, we split the kids into 4 groups of four to five students. Each group was led by a professional media person. Yes, I find this totally amazing, that here, in Saxony-Anhalt there's an opportunity to have media people come to your school and make a film based on your expectations. They don't make the film themselves. They provide technology, knowledge and assistance, the films are made by pupils. This institution called Medienanstalt is responsible for the broatcasting rules, laws and all different things. However a big thing they do is working with schools on different projects. Just to imagine how much they are wanted and how much schools and kids want to have media education, we had to apply for this week's assistance one and half years ago!!!
I am not yet allowed to spread what the films are about because they first need to be shown to our partner schools who are coming to visit us in April. Only then we can show the films. Nevertheless, I can say, there's a comedy among them, an action film and they all are interesting, funny and good. The most important thing is that the kids had fun, they wanted to do this and they learned without noticing it. They of course started with collecting the ideas for the film, writing the storyline, script, then recording the film and finally putting it together in Adobe Premiere. What I find great is that all had to participate on everything. All of them had to videotape, hold microphone, act and finally cut and do the rest. And from now on they will never ever watch films with the same eyes like before.
Here are some of the pictures I made during filming and the premiere, where we had a red carpet and five classes to watch :)
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