Finally got the chance to watch Life of Pi, I am so glad I did, it was such amazing movie with a great story and the visual effects were unbelievable. I recommend everyone to watch this movie. When watching this movie, I was thinking to myself what a great idea it would be to have students pick a movie of their choosing, of course being school appropriate, write a short summary on the movie and then make a 20 shot story board on what they thought the most important scenes of the movie were. It would be interesting to see what each student would come up with, the different perspectives from each student. I know it is not very content based but movies are such good inspiration, I might only be saying that because I absolutely love movies. It would get the students to look at something from a different angle, a different perspective and be able to understand the importance of a movie and the purpose of why it was made. To end the project have each student share their thoughts on the movie and show the class the story board they made to summarize what they thought the most important parts of the movie were. This would give the students a different way of learning and how to understand movies, and of course how it relates to the importance of writing. It would also allow the students to express their creativity, and we all know that creativity is very important, at least to me when it comes to teaching. Allowing students to express themselves, gives them the sense of confidence and pride in their work, it allows their creativity to show through.
I certainly did not think when I sat down to watch Life of Pi, that this idea would come out of it. I guess my love of movies paid off, who knew?
Let me know what you think? What are your opinions on this spur of the moment idea?
I haven't watched Life of Pi yet and I'm curious how it compares to the book. I like your idea of having students taking a favorite movie and creating a storyboard for the movie. It gives students no only the chance to focus on something they enjoy but also has them taking literary elements and filmography to apply what they know.
ReplyDeleteI love this idea. It is similar to an activity we did in TO's Young Adult Lit. class a few weeks ago. Instead of making a movie, we make our own books which had three scenes that we felt represented the story. It was interesting to see how different everyone's perspective was, and how many varying aspects stood out to people. Your idea reminded me of this, but I love that by doing a movie the students would get their hands on some new technology. It would definitely be something interesting for students, and a unique classroom activity.
ReplyDeleteAs for not being that content based or what not, I feel like that is necessary. I might be naive and way too optimistic, but hopefully we will have some room to do creative activities such as this. I really feel like students need something different to explore deeper critical thinking. It might not be heavily graded, but it will expand the way students think.
Great idea, Casey!