Jamie came into my classroom to observe one of our filming sessions and to take pictures. He later wrote an email of reflection to our administration:
"...I have had the opportunity today to observe and assist Sylvia as she worked with her students to create blue screen movies for French. There were many things that excited me about the experience. Some of them are as follows:
- The students were so excited and engaged in the experience, that I am sure they had no idea they were "learning".
- The French being spoken was so authentic. The boys knew they would see themselves in the final video and I am sure that this aided in them "learning" the part they were responsible for.
- The classroom has been transformed into a blue screen studio, and Sylvia, working with a simple flip camera, has been able to engage her students in such a real experience, one that I am sure they will never forget. "
If you film in front of a blue or green screen, it is very easy to superimpose the video onto different backgrounds in iMovie. The backgrounds I used are from Google images.
Because of the excitement generated with this technology, I started an iMovie Club at my school for grades 5 & 6. We have had 2 sessions so far and the boys have started some great projects. I prepared a step-by-step tutorial for them to get started with iMovie. Click here to see it (scroll to p. 12 to learn about using a blue/greenscreen). Click here to see where I ordered the Bluescreens (I used two: one for the wall and one for the floor (Click here for a Greenscreen). I hung up the one on the wall with thumbtacks and weighted down the one on the floor with bricks.)
Technology... gotta love it!
(Click here for Audrey Misiano's Greenscreen resources document.
Click here for her presentation.)
Found on YouTube by Audrey Misiano: It's in English but what a great idea!