In each seminar you will . . .
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- Learn powerful techniques for writing, camera,
lighting, audio, directing and editing - all
taught without one word of techno-babble. And
taught in a way that you can easily implement
in your classroom.
- Receive one-on-one instruction. Each seminar
is limited to 12 teachers who will form three
"studios." Each "studio"
will make their own movie, gaining plenty of
hands-on experience.
- Have fun! Yes, making movies is hard work,
but by pursuing a dream together, it is also
about fun, team work and camaraderie.
- Learn the trick of doing on-camera interviews
with only one camera.
- Learn how movie making can fit into your curriculum.
- Become an expert in editing. All movies will
be edited on the Casablanca Avio, with one-on-one
instruction every day. If you want to become
an expert on the Avio or the Kron, this is your
chance!
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There will be 3 seminars in the summer of 2005
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Each seminar is scheduled Monday through Friday
and will be limited to 12 teachers. If you're
worried about the technical side of video equipment,
don't. We provide equipment. We walk you through
it. The only requirement to be part of this seminar
is the desire to learn!
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Each Seminar is Devoted to One Topic
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Choose Civil
Rights and you might make your movie about
the march across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma,
the historic event that helped bring about the
Voting Rights Act.
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Photo by Dan Brothers
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You might visit Montgomery to tell the story
of Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and
the Bus Boycott.
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Photo by Dan Brothers
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 Choose
Helen Keller
and you will take your production to Ivy Green
where young Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan discovered
the miracle.
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Choose To
Kill a Mockingbird and you and your
camcorder will travel to Monroeville, Alabama
to document the town and the courthouse that inspired
Harper Lee when she wrote her masterpiece.
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Your seminar begins the moment you enroll!
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We'll send you a research packet, complete with
the book and video training program Make
A Movie That Tells a Story. This package
will include research sources, archival footage
and project ideas guaranteed to jump start you
production.
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You'll learn the technique of making movies
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. . . You'll also learn to move the human
heart
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. . has moved the hearts of millions. When you
go "on location," you will visit the
courthouse from Harper Lee's novel. Atticus' law
office is there. So is the jail where Scout, Jem
and Dill faced Mr. Cunningham and saved Tom Robinson
from the lynch mob. The tree where Boo Radley
hid treasure for the children has died, but the
stump from that tree is in the principal's office
in the elementary school. If you choose this seminar,
you can interview a professor of American literature
who is an expert on To Kill
a Mockingbird.
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Photo by Shamsi Basha
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Civil
Rights
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are young people in America who are not aware
that at one time, in parts of our country African
American people could not vote. Learn the technique
of making movies while documenting history in
a way that will educate and move the hearts of
your students. Interview people who were actually
part of the Civil Rights movement and take that
history back to your classroom.
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by Charles Moore
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Helen
Keller
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. . could neither hear nor see, but she lived
a life that inspired millions. Alabama students
visit her home at Ivy Green. Your students may
not be close enough to visit, but you and your
camcorder can take them there. Work with your
students, researching Helen Keller, then come
to Alabama where you and your camcorder will discover
the miracle of The Miracle
Worker.
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Photo by Shamsi Basha
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