Ideas
Ideas:
- Re-Edit a movie trailer. Star Wars (original) and Star Wars (21 Century update)
- Create a 30 second video using only 1 photo image. How creative can you get?
- Create a film using only still photographs, narration and music (La Jetee example here)
- OR, create a documentary using only still photos, music and narration.
- With students, assign or generate six general lines of dialogue. Have students create 2-4minute film clips exploring and interpret the dialogue. Extension: assign each group a genre.
- Create a music video. (Focus on your editing and camera work) (examples here)
- Create a commercial selling a product or service or a social/environment cause. Go here for Memorable and Creative Commercials
- Re-edit an actual film trailer to change the timeline or genre (i.e. Marry Poppins: The Horror Movie)
- Swap genres or styles (i.e. Star Wars as a silent movie, or if Saul Bass did the opening credits for Star Wars. Who is Saul Bass? or Star Wars as MacGyver)
- Create a mash-up (info with some examples here)
- Create a stop-motion animated movie with real people. (Human Tetris example here)
- Retell and re-enact a movie in 30 seconds (check out Angry Alien)
- Film the same scene five times with different lighting.
- See how a scene changes by adding a different soundtrack to create mood.
- Create a short clip or film in the style of a famous director.
- How would a famous visual artist direct a film? (Dali example here) Choose a famous artists and create one.
- Select a famous artist or art movement and create a movie in that style. What would Andy Warhol's look like?
- Take a famous painting and create a film scene (lesson example,)
- Create a digital children's book either via film or with still pictures. You don't even need movie editing software for this. Try using PowerPoint or Keynote instead.
- Film an infomercial or a public service announcement. How about creating one that uses satire?
- Create an animated film using paper images.
- Create a silent movie.
- Create a fictitious TV show opening title sequence (example)
- Create a tutorial video.
- Create a kinetic type film (examples here).
- Create a film/video inspired by music using animation (example here) or live film shots
- Create a stop-motion animation of the face singing lyrics to a student's choice of song. Use photography and video-editing. (student example here and here) Credit goes to teacher Ian Sanders of Apex High School for this project. Found via Digital Art Bytes Blog
- Create a slow motion video (examples here)
- Create an 'adbusting' or subvertising commercial (examples here)
- Create a 5x5 video narrative (5 scenes x 5 seconds to create a narrative) (example 1, example 2)
- Check out Vimeo Video School for more ideas!
- Free online teleprompter here
