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Edit Like a Pro!. Lesson Plan Ideas. Concepts: Use sequences (like Hollywood!) Match action Exercise: Have students take and print still photos of school action. Then have them lay out and rearrange the photos to experiment with sequencing and matching action. Concept: Avoid jump cuts
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Edit Like a Pro! Lesson Plan Ideas
Concepts: • Use sequences (like Hollywood!) • Match action • Exercise: • Have students take and print still photos of school action. Then have them lay out and rearrange the photos to experiment with sequencing and matching action
Concept: • Avoid jump cuts • Make visual sense • Exercise: • Print a short story and cut the story up into individual sentences. Have students randomly draw sentences from a bag and try to construct a story and then tell you what it is about.
Concept: • Surprise us • Exercise: • Have students shoot a one-shot film on phone or camera that ends with a surprise. They can contrive the situation,but let them explore what makes an effective surprise. Teach the difference between startling and surprising
Concept: • Begin with an opening • End with a closing • Exercise: • Have students find clips of the opening and closing scenes of their favorite movies and show the class how they work to begin and end the film.