Saturday 29 June 2013

We are movie stars!

Making a movie in Room 2 


Today Learning Media made a movie at our school for the Ministry of Education, not only was it at our school but they also filmed us in our classroom doing reading and inquiry and they interviewed Whaea Emma!

There was a man who was asking the questions, a camera man, a sound man who held a boom and a microphone and also a lady who was the boss. They each had a job and when they put them all together they made a movie about us! 


This is the photo we took of them setting up the lights and the camera. 
First they interviewed Whaea Emma and Miss Leona in the resource room before school and we had to be really quiet in the corridor, it was so hard because we were so excited.











Next they filmed Whaea Emma and Miss Williams having a talk at morning tea time (we thought that was a bit funny). Then they filmed Room 2 doing reading. It was really exciting but sometimes when you are making a movie you have to redo things they call it 'Take 1' and 'Take 2' and it got a little bit boring.

Whaea Emma getting stage fright!
This is the huge camera


It all gets recorded onto this. 
In the afternoon they filmed us doing our Inquiry into the storm water drains with Room 7 and it was good fun because we got to show them our models, our designs and our plans for the big solution. They were very impressed! 

Then after school they filmed Whaea Emma talking to Boston and Marcel's Mums and Ernesto got to hold the huge microphone with the sock on it.

The boss lady took heaps of photos and she said she will email them to Whaea Emma and we will put some more up on the blog later on when we get them.

There are really interesting and exciting things about making a movie and some boring things but most of us either want to be actors or camera operators when we grow up now so we must have really liked it!

4 comments:

  1. What a week of excitement in Room 2!! I can't wait to see the finished film - and all of the movie stars of Room 2 & Room 7...fantastic preparation for our Term 3 inquiry!

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  2. We really enjoyed filming at your school, everyone was very welcoming and patient with us when we asked if they didn't mind doing things again...and again!
    We can't wait to see the results of your inquiry turn out. It was amazing to see each group totally focused on their part of the problem and then everyone contributing to the solution by bringing all the parts together.
    When we make films we are doing an inquiry process. Each of us, including those back at the office who sort out the budgeting, the travel and our timetable, rely on each other to get the job done. No one can do it by themselves

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    1. Thank you David! We were interested to find out that there were MORE people who contributed to making the movies that you make. We know from our inquiry that all the little jobs count. Whaea Emma is buying the paint tonight (in the colours that we need from our brief) and we will begin the final task of creating our solution towards the end of this week! Thank you for commenting on our blog!

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  3. We really enjoyed filming at your school, everyone was very welcoming and patient with us when we asked if they didn't mind doing things again...and again!
    We can't wait to see the results of your inquiry turn out. It was amazing to see each group totally focused on their part of the problem and then everyone contributing to the solution by bringing all the parts together.
    When we make films we are doing an inquiry process. Each of us, including those back at the office who sort out the budgeting, the travel and our timetable, rely on each other to get the job done. No one can do it by themselves

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