Tips for Movie-Making

The script and storyboard process is probably the most important and detailed part of the work of your movie-making, so be sure to dedicate considerable time to this part.

Your script should have a governing argument (a thesis) about what London (its books and its sites) have taught you and can teach others about coming of age as a global citizen. Be sure that every image, every sound, and most importantly, every sentence contributes to support this message. You should clarify what specifically each novel teaches about coming age. (Claiming, simply, that Jane Eyre teaches about coming of age as a worker is NOT an example of specificity!) You need to demonstrate that you have read, thought about, and learned something from each of the books you highlight in your film. Your script should highlight key passages from the novels, and it should also link themes from each novel with sites that we’ve explored in class.

Be sure to consider each of the materials you’d like to include. (What text, images, and sounds will you use?) This is where your storyboard comes in. Take a lot of care with this stage, especially in drafting and revising your script. It will save you a lot of time if you get your script right before working on production (gathering pictures and videos). Because you will not (yet) have read all of the novels of coming of age, give yourself space in your drafting for adding at least one more book to your message.

Over the weekend, you and your partner should begin to investigate some of the following tools:

As you begin the post-production work of assembling and editing your movie, you may want to check out the following sources:

1. TCU New Media Writing Studio  “Resources”

   http://www.newmedia.tcu.edu/resources.html

2.  Moviemaker (for PCs):

     http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2/
 

3.   iMovie (for Macs):

    http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovi

     http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/imovie3x

4. Sound resources

Free Audacity Download  (To record yourself)
               http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

 Audacity Tutorial
            http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html
            http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials

  Downloadable Music files
            http://www.archive.org/details/audio_music
            http://ccmixter.org/find-music
            http://www.freeplaymusic.com/index.php


    4. Sound effects
            http://www.findsounds.com/types.html