Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach 2 First Movie Festival

This year has been our first Te Hiku Movie Festival, the movies have been played on the big screen at the Te Ahu Cinema in Kaitaia on Thursday 7 November. This is one of the lucky movies to be chosen from our school. Congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this movie.
Please enjoy and feel free to leave a comment below for the students.

 

Some very excited children that can't wait to watch their movie on the big screen.

Afterwards, we made sure we got a photo with our lovely group on the red carpet. Can you believe it, Red Carpet! The students felt like stars!

Then we awarded them to a lovely Ice Cream or Frozen Coke for their amazing efforts! Ka Pai future film makers!

Movie Making

Today we learnt about movie making with Harley Alexander. Harley is a director and producer and has created many short films.

This is one of his films, which he shared with our class.

Harley taught us about the equipment we would need to make our own short films and demonstrated how to use the equipment. 

We learnt about the different shots that would be required:

1. Establishing shot - setting the scene for the film

2. Wide shot - this is where you introduce your characters in the background.

3. Medium close up - from the waist up.

4. Close up - Shoulders up. This is where the students realise their classroom was overrun by rats.

5. Extreme close up - chin up. Looking mainly at the eyes. 

Here are some of the students' shots.