Boost 1 - Term 2 Week 3

This week has been another busy one for Boost 1 children.  We learned about different film shots and techniques to use in their video.

 

These are the videos that we watched, to help us with our film making.
 
Rule of Thirds video
Film Making Techniques
5 Deadly Sins of Amateur Video

With the different shots and techniques in mind, the groups planned their short video using a storyboard.  Each step of the story had to be planned, including the camera angle (birds eye view, worm view etc.), shot (close up, long shot etc.) and technique (macro, rule of thirds).  This took most of the day but the detail in these plans means that there is more time filming next time.

I have asked the children to talk within their groups about what props they might need to bring next fortnight.  They also need to decide where this will be filmed within the school.

Some groups will need bike/scooter/cart, helmet, costume etc.
One group will need a large size (in pixels) photo for their background to their claymation video.

Boost 2 - Term 2 Week 1

Today I posed a problem to the boys.  A lot of people don't realise that there is a school here, as it is not as visible from the road as a lot of other schools.  We need to make some type of signage to make sure that people know that we are here.

First we looked at our present sign, and the boys immediately noticed that it wasn't very noticeable.  The gardens are growing up in front of it, the sign is difficult to see.


We took photos of the front of the school and the boys used one of these photos to plan where they would put a sign or two, and we estimated how big the signs would have to be.  We then went out to check our measurements to see if they were a good estimate.  We discovered that some of the measurements were just too big, so we had to change our plan.

 

The boys have been asked to come up with a new design for their ideal sign and we will share these next Boost session.  We will use these designs to come up with a proposal each for Mr Forde to look over. 

Boost 1 - Term 2 Week 1

Welcome to Boost 1 group for 2013.

Welcome to our three new students to Boost 1.  This takes our total this year to 8 children in our group.

This term we have decided  to enter a competition with Safe Kids New Zealand.  The children have decided that they all want to make a video for this competition and today we looked at the criteria for the video they will be making, we thought about our favourite activity that needs a bike helmet and then the children were split into groups to begin planning their video.

You can find all the information about this competition here:
http://safekidscreativequest.org.nz/about-creative-quest/

This fortnight, the children need to be watching TV advertisements and asking themselves these questions:

What kind of music are they using, and why?
Are there any logo's or pictures that are being used?
How many people are in the ad?
What colours to they notice, what makes these noticeable?
What is the message of the ad – is it clear?
How are these ads different from all the others?     

If they could jot down some of their findings and bring them to the next Boost session, that would be great.

The judging criteria for this competition is:
Creativity
Message Clarity
Originality
Effort

Term 4 Week 4

Boost 2

There are only a couple of Boost sessions left for the year so we haven't started any ongoing projects.  We have returned to working on social skills and group work.

Today we learned about what empathy is.  We talked about how empathy is really thinking about how someone else is feeling.  First we started thinking about what it would be like to be Mum, what would Mum be thinking about and feeling.  It took a while, but the boys really started thinking about what Mum's take on life is.  They talked about what it would feel like as Mum, driving them around to sports, thinking about work, finishing work at home, feeling frustrated when the kids aren't listening!

Then we thought about when we have done something silly that we regret.  Without naming what we have all done (and everyone has something to feel regret about) we thought about what it was like for the other person.  We tried to empathise with how that person would have felt or thought.

Empathy is really important, as it guides our behaviour towards others.  It helps when we think of the bigger picture and how we affect how others are feeling.

We put this to the test with a game of speed chess on the giant chess board.  Teams of four played chess with only ten seconds to make each move.  The challenge was to think about the other team members and how your move may affect the others, and we also worked on genuinely thanking the opposition for the game.  

Term 3 Week 7

Boost 1
We had a break from movie making today, and had some creative thinking games.  These games concentrated on thinking of lots of different things in a time limit.  The children thought it would be easy, but it's not easy when you are under pressure!  We also had a technology challenge, where the children had ice block sticks and string to hold a marble out from a table as far as they could.  

Term 2 Week 8

Boost 1.
In the last couple of weeks Boost 1 have been holding interviews with some people who have been involved with Sacred Heart school now and in the past. It is the 50th jubilee of Sacred Heart school this year. Today we are editing our interviews with imovie. By editing our interviews were cutting bits of it out.
By Jacob

Term 2 Week 3 - Boost 1

This week we finished our first movies.  We added transistions to our video clips last week, and also added titles and subtitles.  This week we added sound to our movies.  We added voiceover and sound effects.  

These videos are the first videos that the children have made at Boost, and the children learned a lot about editing, and adding sound, that they would do differently next time.