TV Studio News

MLPS TV's brand new studio is almost ready for use. Hopefully we can be in and using it by sometime next week. Our Team is purchasing a vision mixer - which will greatly enhance our ability to produce shows [particularly live shows]. It will greatly cut down on post production editing and will increase the skills of our young movie makers.
We have entered three movies into competition this year - up from one last year. Two are entered in the Moviefest national film making competition, 'Camera, Lights, Action' and 'Press Play'. These movies, in keeping with the theme of the competition, are documentaries highlighting, in some manner, the movie making process. I believe both movies show a high level of understanding of the film making craft and each is independently created by the associated team.
The other film produced this year is "S.A.M." an animation/live action movie entered into the 'Outlook for Someday' competition run by TVNZ6. It is ambitious and shows a high degree of technical understanding by the way 'Pivot animation' is integrated into live action.

Movie making

The Movie making team is expanding by quite a few new members. We are managing to produce a reasonably regular show - Up Close - but find it difficult to produce every week with the demands of the school wide Inquiry Topic which has every class making a movie of their own to screen in a Premier extravaganza at the Hollyood Theatre in Avondale on July 1. Our team has certainly upskilled and become much more independent in their abilities to make films themselves.
The coming months bring the opportunity to enter at least two films in this year's Moviefest film competition. This competition requires a movie to be finished and sent to Wellington by October 3. We do not, however, know the topic of the film until 6 weeks or so beforehand, so will be busy from that point onwards.
After the Movie Night has been held the Film Making Team will swing into action with new shows - particularly narrative films and documentaries.
Next year we look forward to our purpose built studio so that we can film our shows in single locations rather than wherever we can currently find space.

News

MLPS is currently undertaking a school wide Technology Unit where we are all involved in producing Movies to help raise funds for the Senior School camp this year. Every class is very busy working towards producing their own movie, to be ready July 1.
The TV Studio is mobile at the moment because of Room 8 being utilised as a new entrant class. This coupled with all MLPS TV students up skilling to edit their own work has meant delays in our weekly Up Close show. We hope, but don't promise, to be back up to our regular schedule soon - depending on the workload while we are making our class movies.

Mr Kelly

Storyboard as movie exemplar

Hi teachers. This storyboard presented as a movie is 48 seconds long - the same length as the movie it graphically represents. It is a shot by shot [that is camera placement by camera placement] representation of a plan for a movie. This is a useful tool because it allows you to practice timing your film before you begin and you have a 'Rough Draft' you can refer to once you begin editing [putting it all together].
A paper representation of this storyboard will be available to view at school.
The film shown is a 48 second version of a stylized scene from King Kong using V cans - as per the 48 second film competition.

Room 5 boys are chased by fierce dinosaurs

Te Wairua is animated

Developmental play 27.3.09

We made this in 5 minutes. Cool learning!