A Story About A Hurricane Named Katrina

Storyboards, digital story telling, movie maker and other pieces to the puzzle of creating a great story have been learned this week. Through the experience I have learned that there is more to a movie then just turning the camera on and pressing record. There are rules, shots, angles, storyboards, tools, editing, and finally the final product. Some of our shots included were the medium, long, and short shots. We also included images to break up shots that were longer in time to follow the rule of short segments. Some ways to break up the different segments are to transition by using different effects like fading between shots, adding images, and to use different types of audio for more emphasis to different parts of the movie. Also the rule of thirds was applied to many shots throughout the video.

Our movie was over Hurricane Katrina but was set as an interview between a talk show host and Katrina. The concept included many TEKS, included in our activity plan, and was a way to inform people about hurricanes. This specifically informed people about how Hurricane Katrina happened and was a way for "her" to "tell her side of the story" so people would not be mad at her anymore. Using everything we learned made our movie an effective presentation of what we studied, informed people about hurricanes, and related the information to an actual hurricane that occurred in New Orleans. A movie could be used in your classroom by allowing students to create a more advanced "slide show" over information they had learned. I think that between the students creating a movie, the parents helping the students with the movie, and finally the students and parents commenting on the movies would be a great way for everyone to interact with each other. The more involvement the better and a movie would be a fun way to incorporate everyone. Also an idea that could be used is to have a movie from the beginning/ end of the year with each student talking about their family, expectations of the class, and favorite subject would be very fun to show personal growth throughout the class. The parents could be involved by adding some commentary or pictures they had taken throughout the year of the class or their individual students over school related experiences. Movies or "digital story telling" is such an interactive and fun way to make any assignment more effective with a lot of information related to making a movie in which I plan on using.