Moving Image Education

Hello, I'm Marion and I'm doing a maternity cover as a head teacher relief at a lovely little rural school in Moray. This means I'm in class for 2, sometimes 3 days a week for a minimum of six months.

We've been having fun in our P5-7 composite class learning some basic skills in Moving Image Education and we're hoping to give you a taste of what we've been up to so far with this little video. This was shot by the children and edited by me.

We use PCs in Moray and have Windows Media Player on our systems. This is clunky and I found I couldn't control the pause button well enough to look at a film in depth, also I had trouble trying to download films from the internet in school. So now I take my own laptop and a set of speakers to school and plug it into the Smart board for moving image work. This is a great system, I can download a film at home and I don't need to worry about whether it will work or not.

BFI Story Shorts

Mostly we've been working with the BFI Story Shorts and the children love them.

Storyboards

We've watched Lucky Dip from the BFI Starting Stories about ten times looking at different aspects of it. We storyboarded a sequence of shots and the attention to detail in the children's drawings was superb.

Literacy

In literacy we looked at the little girl character and talked about why she was with her grandparents. There are no clues in the film but the children wrote moving passionate pieces about families moving home, having new babies and dealing with death. They loved doing this and were really delighted with their results.

When they arrived at the beach they got a waft of the tangy sea breeze. They walked at a decent pace until they got to an icecream stall and Isabella had a marshmallow deluxe. They got the picnic out and sat down on a red tartan quilt that smelt like lavender. They feasted on ruby red apples, lemon curd and marmalade sandwiches and drank orange juice. Calum P5

When Georgia was five her mum died in a car crash. The thing was she was not driving. It was the taxi driver and he only had a cut. ......... For a year her dad struggled to look after her but one day he decided that she would have to go to Edinburgh to live with her Gran and Granpa. Danielle P6

"Ow, ouch!" I screamed. I just got pins and needles. My grandfather , grandmother and I were on a long journey in the old jeep to the island of Iona. We were heading there to stay in a little cottage to see the seals on the coast. We would cross at Oban to Mull, then Mull to Iona. Granma said my Ma had named me after the island. My mother died four years ago and my dad was attacked by wolves when he went to Alaska on his expeditions, so you could call me an orphan. Iona P7

Science

In Science we have been looking at the structure of flowering plants. We all made a paper flower and tried to make an animation in the sandpit. It was a bit wobbly but we got a taste of how an animation is made.