Evaluating our first attempts at filming

Year 5 Film Project: From Storyboards to the Big Screen
​Earlier this term, Year 5 began their journey into film-making by learning about camera techniques and planning their own films using detailed storyboards. Unfortunately, the weather had other plans for us and for several weeks it prevented us from filming our scenes outdoors.
However, over the last few weeks we have finally had the chance to bring our storyboards to life. The playground once again became our film set as directors, actors and camera operators worked together to capture the scenes they had carefully planned.
Today’s lesson focused on reviewing and evaluating the footage we had filmed. As we watched our first attempts back in the classroom, we quickly noticed that there were some issues we needed to improve. Some shots had unsteady cameras, in other scenes it was difficult to hear the actors because of background noise and in some cases we realised that we had not used the full range of camera shots we had originally planned.

After recognising these challenges, the children were given time to head back outside and re-film their scenes, applying what they had learned from reviewing their work. It was fantastic to see how quickly they were able to improve their filming techniques once they had identified the problems.

Back in the classroom, the children then began the exciting process of editing, putting together their individual clips to create their own short films.
​Over the coming weeks, we hope to be able to share some of these finished films on our class blog, so that families can see the creativity and teamwork that has gone into this project. Our final lesson will involve evaluating the completed films to see how effectively we have met the original brief and how successfully we have used the film techniques we have been learning.
We are very excited to see the finished productions — we may have some future filmmakers in Year 5! ​