Intro

This course offers a case-based, problem-solving approach to learning digital video. 6th grade students create digital storytelling projects by using different software: iMovie, iPhoto, and GarageBand.

All students write a screenplay, create a storyboard, and direct, film, and edit a movie. Best movies will be selected for the **2009 Poly MS Film Festival** and will be posted on Poly Prep Technology Department website.

The main theme for the 2009 Poly MS Film Festival is “**KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.**” This famous phrase was originally stated by Sir Francis Bacon. The phrase implies that with knowledge one's potential or abilities in life will increase. Education can transform us, and it can empower for action. "Remember some words you heard about life that you will never forget, an insight that has shaped so many of your subsequent attitudes and decisions in life. Just think about pieces of information you have gotten at one time or another that completely changed your mind about something and enabled you to see things in a new way... or recall how the learning of some skill or method opened up many possibilities for your life... or ask yourself how certain life experiences have "taught" you the capacity to cry or to wonder. Think of the story you heard or the novel you read or the magazine article that has lead you to take a course of action or to take up some cause or concern in life" ([|David Rhoads)]. The students’ digital stories should demonstrate how education transforms people's lives. Students are free to pick any topic– it could be a project from science, history, math, dance, and music.

Lesson 1: Introduction to wikispaces Lesson 2: Screenwriting Lesson 3: Screenwriting: Introduction Lesson 4: Screenwriting: Scene 1 Lesson 5: Screenwriting: Scene 2 Lesson 6: Screenwriting: Scene 3 Lesson 7: Screenwriting: Conclusion Lesson 8: Working in groups: 4-5 groups per class Lessons 9-10: Project presentation Lesson 11: How to use a digital camcorder, microphone, and tripod. Lesson 12: iMovie Lessons 13-18: Filming and transferring movies. Lessons 18-22: Editing Lessons 23-25: Presentations