That being said, the girls wanted to do a story based on the story of the judge Deborah.  We have not been successful in this endeavor, despite a fair amount of work going into it.  They recently asked me if we could change over to the parable of the two sons-one who obeyed, and one who did not.  It is going to be a bit of a crunch, time wise, to get this done, but I think we can do it. It is a simpler story, and should go well.

More later!

In other news, we have only one computer this year.  This is mostly because the ones we used last year are only 40GB, and we found they were too limited for film projects.  So, the girls in my class shared the computer for their first editing projects with photos and music.  I was pleasantly surprised to find out that because they had to communicate together to edit, they were able to get to know one another a bit more. I think that will help when the time comes for the movie. :)

I am going to be looking into what we can do about our computers-we had several technical difficulties last year, despite our attempts to get the computers to edit faster.  I know the Lord is able to fill this need for us, as He did see us through last year.  We will not be editing for a bit, so I hope to resolve this before late October.

As for last years movies, they did turn out well (especially considering the computers were slow), and I hope to post them online.

Here’s to this next year! :)

After the filming was finished, two of my students were able to do their editing during our class time. We did have some technical difficulties to overcome, due to the fact that we found out the computers we had would not handle the video files, but found we could use two computers we had here at my house.  So, we would bring those in, and the students edited on those.  These computers were better, although I do think they were a little slow, but they worked.

My third student, a young man who had already edited videos before, finished up the year editing at his own home.  Our class uses Windows Movie Maker in the actual classroom, but this young man had an opportunity to use Adobe Premier because it was what he had been using at home.  I believe it was a great chance for the students to all see how differently each person not only edits, but also what portions of the storytelling does each individual find key to the point of the story.  (I will post the You Tube version, when I have it ready to upload from here, so you can watch for that link!)

For the school year, I believe it was another successful year.  The students enjoyed it overall, I thought, and we had some great input on the movies we watched.  I always like it when a student will bring up something in a film, a new thought I had not had about the storyline, writing, plot, music, etc.  It is a blessing to see these students engage in thoughtful, relevant conversation about film, and to see them learn about film and our culture.

That is it for this year-onto planning for next!  Thanks for stopping by!

We do have some technical issues to overcome with the importing the footage in such a way that we can edit in Windows Movie Maker, but we hope to overcome those this week.

Filming went well, and it was pretty funny during our fight scene to try to figure out the whole fake blood issue.  Two actors were fighting, and we were trying to see if we could make the blood fly onto the wall for an effect, but had a heck of a time figuring out what the natural trajectory of blood would be.  It made for some pretty funny conversations.