SC Education Oversight Committee Student Movies Innovation Contest

The EOC site asks the students, "How is Black Water preparing you to be innovative," after my students did a previous lesson of experimenting with film making with an iMovie trailer - they now designed a 2 minute video for this contest.

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I was really pleased with the majority of work that the kids made. Some of them used titles to help reinforce the message of Innovation, interviewed students and staff of BWMS to get their input and some even made their own music using the Garageband app

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This is somewhat built upon my older lesson about film making using this Prezi, but with the iPads and iMovie, the only film cocepts I had to cover was make sure they film only in landscape

Cyberbullying Music Video Project on Prezi

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You can find out more info about filming on an iPad using this Yahoo Voices article about iPadography for Film

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You can also check out some of my other previous projects of utilizing film editing in the classroom or my tutorials

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Marc's

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Kat's

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Kaitlyn's

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Brandon's

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In A World Trailers on Age of Exploration / Renaissance #edtech

8th and 7th grade students utilized the mobile IPod app "In a World" to create a movie trailer that showed off the artwork they were currently learning in Social Studies. The 8th graders just wrapped up a unit on Native Americans, so they primarily featured Cherokee artwork. The 7th graders were studying the Age of Exploration, which was also featured some moments during the Renaissance.

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Black Water Middle's Video Game Arcade commercial

This is a commercial that I made utilizing Imovie and Jaycut which promotes my website mrgsgames.blogspot.com

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The commercial is intended to promote the work of my students, and to let other people out there know how easy it is to create a video game utilizing the free site of gamestarmechanic.com. 

And in case you haven't realized it yet, the style of this video was really inspired by 1980's BMX commercials and old school wrestling promos. I hope you enjoy it, play my students' games and make your own using Gamestar Mechanic

I think you can easily see my inspiration from this vintage "Monsters of Rock N Roar" commercial. The theme song is STILL stuck in my head after 20 years!