Service Project Session 3

This session was mostly filming the scenes we had planned out in our storyboard from last session.  The students were both very excited to share the information they had learned during our experience.  This goes to show that when you allow the students to create their own questions it helps to maintain their interest throughout the entire project.  The students were fully engaged for every session, and they learned several facts about the ocean in the process.  The first thing we did this session was go over the lines from the script one last time.  I then reminded the students to try and stay still and look at the camera while filming.  We then shot each scene in the order that they were to appear in the movie.  I took at least two full takes of each scene to allow for any unseen editing issues.  By the time we had completed filming we were almost out of time for the session so we completed the last column of our KWL chart and posted a blog entry on the students' blog over what we had done this session.  We also reviewed Jeremiah's and Jessica's student blogs and made posts there.  The students and parents were both excited to see the final product of the last couple of weeks worth of work.

In retrospect I should have practiced the lines with the students a few more times than I did.  I also should have been more prepared for emergencies.  I brought two sets of freshly charged rechargeable batteries for my camera, and both of them were dead.  Because of this I had to film the movie with my phone, so the quality of audio and video wasn't as high as it could have been.  I also should have allowed more time to film so we could have tried filming in more than one location.  I have learned much from this project, and I can tell my students have learned from it as well.