Funky Frankenstein Film workshops

Last week, we were back at Bowling Park Primary School, where we spent a brilliant two days with Year 6 both at New Cross Street and Usher Street.

Year 6 have been studying the Usbourne Classic retold tale of Frankenstein and we spent the time filming year 6 in costume against green screen to slot into pre shot footage. This helped the children to really "live" the tale. At the end of the second day we held a mini film show on each of the two sites for the actors to view themselves on the big screen. We left the school with a dvd for each class comprising of the narrated film, we will also be providing a silent version so that the children will be able to write their own story.

The feedback from pupils and teachers was phenomenal and Matthew Langley, Deputy Head Teacher had this to say:

"A quick note to say many thanks for your excellent work with year six. Watched with great pride in our celebration assemblies yesterday and about to be placed on our blog today. A real achievement.

Looking forward to working with you again soon."

 

Here is a video of one of the films from class 6.

 

 

New Learning through Film Workshop Experiences

During the course of last term, as per our blog posts, we carried out some key stage 1 and key stage 2 workshops involving static and live action filming with the children to create individual pieces of footage incorporating both pupils and their artwork.

Puppetman have been working hard throughout the summer months to further develop these workshops to ensure greater flexibility around subject matter and full pupil participation.

The workshops are aimed at key stage 2, class 5 and above and involve the use of chroma key (filming against a green background and then adding a backdrop afterwards), live action filming, importing of video and music clips and the creation of title sequences. The end result will be a short informative program, created entirely by the pupils.

In this still, Will and Ben were filmed against green and then chroma keyed against the background that you see here:

As I am sure that you will appreciate, this type of workshop has many cross curricular benefits, as well as giving the children an insight into television production. It can also act as transitional project work within the move from primary to secondary school.

Have a look at this short sample video in connection with global warming and the floods in Hebden Bridge. If this embedded version of the video is not operating as intended, please view the original video here.

For further information or to book a workshop please feel free to comment or email.

Virtual Olympics comes to Bradford!!

Following the success and enjoyment of the workshops held at Heathfield School, Rishworth, Puppetman went on to host a 3 day workshop for all the pupils of class 2 at Bowling Park and Usher Street, Bradford.

This time the workshop had an Olympic theme and the children created some amazing pieces of artwork involving winners, podiums, flags and medals.

Once again, the children were filmed against green and then chroma keyed into their artwork against an animated background.

Here is a still example image to show you what was achieved:

And here is a video of the children of 2SK:


http://vimeo.com/45689000

We felt that the children got immense enjoyment from the sessions and the teacher's feedback reflected that with comments such as:

"Just a quick email to say we have received the DVD's, they are fantastic! The children's faces lit up when they watched them.

Thank you for 3 wonderful days, the work they got out of it was definitely worth it."Sarah Kew - Class 2 Teacher

Pirates of the Carribean live in Rishworth, Halifax

Last term, we had brilliant fun with class 5 at Heathfield School. The children spent the day being involved in live action filming against "green screen" in the guise of pirates. They then completed some fantastic artwork which resulted in the creation of individual pirate scenes.

Feedback from the Anthony Wilkins, Headteacher was that "the children loved it".

Here are some still images to give you an idea of how enjoyable the day was.

Each pupil designed their own pirate ship, flag and seamonster and Puppetman Education married the elements together with an animating background adding the chroma keyed pirate.

We hope that you enjoy this short video showing the footage created by the children.