EDUC X407.C - Digital Filmmaking in Education

Course Description

In this course, you will focus on learning three challenges, which include: the foundational five steps of producing The Door Scene, the Shooting Gallery camera and composition challenge, and A Thousand Words challenge, which further develops your visual language vocabulary by exploring intermediate the camera techniques of composition, movement, and perspective. You will explore concepts of fundamental screen grammar in visual storytelling, and how choices by filmmakers can affect a story or even how you feel about a story or character. The session will also include:

education on media literacy
visual storytelling
discussions
presentations
critical thinking exercises
teamwork
how Media Literacy relates to the Common Core Standards

The purpose of the workshop is to demonstrate to teachers how the process of media production can be used across the entire curriculum, can help raise the profile of their subject within their schools, and how Media Literacy also teaches young people many skills such as creative, critical, and analytical thinking.