SFMS_Film_Trailers_Academy_Awards

=SFMS_Film Trailer_Academy_Awards Project= Please identify opportunities for differentiation. Understanding of analysis attributes - craft elements via student created tutorials (straight up video recordings of actual tutorial, screencasts, Explain Everything models, sky is the limit- can be individual or team effort as long as there is an archive of ALL craft/literary elements studied. ||
 * **Title**: ||< SFMS Film Trailer Awards ||
 * **Subject**: ||< English Language Arts ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 8 ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< How long will the activity/lesson/project take? 3-4 weeks ||
 * **Summary:** ||< =====Film Trailer Academy Awards – student groups, will transform a novel of their choice into a film trailer. Using the Movie Trailer feature in iMovie, students will plan, in very specific detail, a trailer for a screen adaptation of their chosen work. Students will be challenged to analyze the work from the perspective of a literary critic taking care to showcase the most effective aspect of author's craft into the screen adaptation trailer. The trailer's tone must match that of the novel and must give substantial clues to the students' analyzed theme of the work. The students will plan, develop, and execute a public Movie Trailer Academy Awards event to showcase their work including a mechanism for the presentation of the awards: categories, criteria, judging, and prizes (if any). ===== ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< 1) Describe the main steps of the activity/lesson/project here
 * Be sure to highlight opportunities for students to practice/employ an "early adopter" or lifelong learning skill
 * ** Pre-Project **
 * Self Select a novel - application of text selection strategy + book club formation 3-5 member
 * Project Process: Set schedule for the project to include reading & discussion time; assign group roles (for Book Club but with an eye towards trailer production roles), develop conflict resolution plan, create calendar, set date for awards night.
 * Establish event production team 1-2 members from each class - determine all logistics for event - venue, props lighting, recording, advertisement
 * Establish judging team - determine, recruit judges from campus, community experts - Aurora Picture Show curator, MFAH Flim Series curator, and world experts (George Lucas, Steven Speilberg...Quinton Tarrantino, etc.)
 * Embark on Literary Analysis instruction - focusing on attributes of "story", reviewing/reteaching elements of author's craft (SFMS Literacy Pyramid), Literary Anaysis Brick scaffold as pre-writing, theme and tone analysis strategy, literary analysis draft
 * **Project**
 * Explore aspects of film adaptation, screenplay adaptation -
 * *Storyboarding - key piece of project* - without very specific, tightly planned storyboarding including set locations, casting, dialog, and scene transition. There will be NO filming absent these requirements being fully met. (Movie Trailers in iMovie forces this requirement)
 * Film Instruction - Aurora Picture Show media educator session
 * Filming
 * **Event**
 * Public - community invitation: campus, neighborhood, city, state, planet
 * Portable/Published - "The Making of" Documentary, the trailers, The Actor's Studio, etc
 * ** Debrief & Reflection - **
 * Team reflection in terms of process and role responsibility
 * Original Literary Analysis of work revised and published, Written Film Critique. ||
 * Objectives: ||< * What TEKS or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet? Reading comprehension skills – vocabulary skills, monitoring comprehension, activating prior knowledge, connecting to text, textual questioning skills, generalization & inference skills, textual prioritization skills, and summarization & synthesis skills; Linear plot structure, characterization technique, setting development, literary POV - point of view, literary element analysis, literary analysis, specific techniques of tonal and thematic analysis; group collaboration process, calendaring, conflict resolution, communication skills - speaking, listening, and presenting, resource management, digital collaboration.
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Resources: ||< * What resources will be needed?
 * iPad Stands, Lighting modules, tri-pods (SBISD Landon Mini-Grant)
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || Please share what went well, what was challenging and what you might tweak or modify for your next round.... ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||

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