Learning in the Lou

This post was created to support the LHS gifted students.  Feel free to  print this guide  to help the students think and plan their shoot. We will be using the paper guide to help focus our thinking during our lesson. Purpose How do you use video to tell a story, convince someone of something or entertain them? In class, we will discover a few key techniques you can use to help tell your story in six minutes or less. 1. What do you watch now? This question helped frame our thinking around the videos we watch and why we watch them. What videos do you watch now? Why do you keep coming back? 2.  Balloon  - shot on an iPhone 6. We watched this video without any context the first time. For the second viewing, we split the class into six small groups. We then rewatched the video while the teams looked for one of the specific topics below. The big idea was to see how these video elements helped tell the story. angles the video was sh...