Projects
1. Every group is given the same shoebox of materials and they all have to design and shoot their films within the class period. The parameters would be strict with regards to time limit and techniques used.
2. An "on the spot" exquisite corpse project. Assume there a four groups. In four rooms/spaces there will be 4 shoeboxes, each with a unique set of items. In 10-20 minutes each group has to create the first sentence of a story and film it using only the props given to them. Any editing must be done within the camera, on the spot, by rewinding/fast-forwarding and recording over bad takes. (NOTE: Voiceover narration of the sentence should not be done during filming). At the end of the 20 minutes each group should have their completed sentence filmed and edited. Before moving on to the next room, each group must rewind the tape to the beginning of THEIR finished sequence. Then each group moves on to the next room, presses play on the camera, and watches the previous group's sequence (with the volume muted). They then build upon the story by filming a new sentence based on their best interpretation of what the previous group's sentence was. Each group repeats the process using the only the props in the box and in camera editing. They continue to switch rooms every 20 minutes until they are back to their original room. At this point the tapes are taken to the editing lab where one of a few things could happen.
1. The teacher or student takes the written versions of the sentences for each group and adds makes a single voiceover track for each tape.
2. A member from each ads a voiceover track to only their sequence on each tape.
3. (An interesting twist) Each group creates a voiceover sentence track for the previous group's sequence based only on what they see.
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