Shanghai Student Film Festival

To begin at the beginning….

A HUGE HIGH FIVE
to the entire S2F2 community!

230 entries submitted ; this is a recording breaking year!
80 entries JUST in Elementary/Primary division
15 Overseas entries;… the numbers double each year.]
and
8+ Shanghai schools who are united by a community of truly amazing, dedicated, creative, zany and fun film-making teachers:

HIGH FIVE
to the amazing work happening in our schools….

HIGH FIVE
to the beautiful, beautiful long pan shot, but the sound didn’t work out..

HIGH FIVE
to the fantastic story but the camera was so shaky and you didn’t ‘Mark” your tripod

HIGH FIVE
to the wicked ideas and funky work but your movie exceeded the time frame as stated in the S2F2 rules

High FIVE
to each and EVERY single person who supported or contributed even just five nano seconds to a S2F2 creation…

HIGH Five
to the “extras’ in your movies
It has been great to see fun cameo appearances from teachers and families

HIGH FIVE
to the support crews
the “behind the scenes” technical experts~ like the ‘rock steady teacher’ who found time to lay down a perfect ” drum riff’ after a quick sandwich and in ONE take listening to the sound for the first time!!!!!!!

This is how we as students and teachers learn together the language and craft of digital story telling. We live in an age where anything is possible.

Students work is getting REALLY interesting and innovative; telling real stories, playing with remixing, reflective, and always pushing and challenging technical issues….

High Five
to the great teams who have created such strong competition..
Film making requires a community of people who share their expertise and work collaboratively with a common passion to tell a story or create a journey. …!

The Final
High five
must go to
to the external Judges
Last Friday University Film-making lectures had the unenviable task to make the final decisions…….
The envelopes ARE sealed….. I know NOTHING!

(drum roll)

Meantime…..

This week at our school we’re creating a Databank based upon David Crawford’s fantastic Middle school Rubric that was used for the first round of selections…

We’re doin’ a bit of Judgin’ of our own!

At an Elementary school many students are still making language connections with filming making concepts like: Documentary, PSA, Narrative and Video Art; but as 21st Century learners; visual literacy DEFINITELY overcomes all lanaguage acquisition…way before English,Chinese and/or our first language.

The value of our inschool Judging/evaluation has been the opportunity to gain ‘evidence’ of 21st Century learners as bilingual VISUAL learners…
; how quickly even Year 1 students have picked up how to assess and evaluate:

Lighting, Sound, Photography, Editing, We also addded; Story/Content
1 to 5; 5 being the top score

It was touching also to observe students score and rate their peers movie very generously. It makes you think as a CURRICULUM coordinatator…

Students now KNOW how hard it is to make a movie!
Students also LOVED the task of watching movies made by kids for kids!

What a fantastic experience…and the best is yet to come!

See ya this Friday

6.30pm
Shanghai Community International School
Hong Qiao Campus