Term 2 Week 2

Boost 2.
Today we reaquainted ourselves and the boys talked about what they wanted to learn more about this year.  The overwhelming majority wanted more creative thinking and inventing, so there will be a lot more technology challenges and creating things this year.

To reignite our creative thoughts, we looked at some Rebus puzzles.  A rebus is a word puzzle put in a cryptic way to represent a word, phrase, or saying.  The boys did these today, can you figure them out?

Boost 1 - Term 2 Week 1

Welcome back to Boost for 2012.

Today the children were reintroduced to each other and the new children learned about what Boost is all about.

This term we are working on videoed interviews about Sacred Heart School, for the Jubilee, and the first things that we learned were the 5 big mistakes of Amateur video.

Firehosing – moving the camera around too fast, instead of panning nice and slowly.
Jogging – Carrying the camera while walking, and having jumping pictures as a result.
Lighting – if you subject is in front of the light/sun, then you won't be able to see the front of the subject, it will be in shadow.
Noseroom – leaving space in front of the subject's face, so it looks like they have room to move. 
Headroom – Filling the viewing frame with the subject.  Don't have the person's head right down the bottom of the screen with dead space above.

This is the video that we watched, explaining these mistakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etVxvl6mcJ8&list=PL7A7E273FAC181113&index=3&feature=plpp_video

The children then worked in pairs/threes to use a video camera to show these mistakes and how to fix them.  Next week they will be putting this footage into a small film to explain their work.