Movie-Making Magic
Students & Mentors Create Movies to Preserve Interviews
The past few classes have consisted of experimentation with
iMovie and our movie-making skills. This has proved both tricky and rewarding. We have been very thankful to have our technology students to help us work out the kinks throughout the process!
The movies will be the finished products of all our hard work throughout the semester. They will showcase different aspects of the interviews we conducted on March 23rd and will serve as a
visual preservation of our interviewee's stories.
Student groups are making two different types of movies.
Talkie-style movies will highlight conversation from the interview video and
Ken Burns-style movies will include voiceover from the students and a collage of pictures helping to support the theme of the movie. This process has included making
storyboards, highlighting, and
marking up transcripts and nailing down a
theme for the movie to develop and grow from.
The movie-making process is complex--video, still photos, voiceovers, music, credits, titles, transitions--but well worth the time we take to complete them! Mentors and FCHS students collaborating together ensure that the interviewees' stories are preserved for their enjoyment, their families' delight, and even to possibly be used for different educational purposes around the world if made available in
online databases. It is such an honor to participate in active oral history recording and in safekeeping stories for future generations.
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