Last week I judged the video competition among Ken Rodoff’s seniors. The goal: Create a 30-second trailer for Ayn Rand’s Anthem, to be used to motivate the juniors who will be reading the book next year. We are slowly working our way through the entire reading list.
This particular group of students had never before used iMovie. Few of them had ever before used video cameras. The project’s time restrictions were intense. We wanted to avoid straight on images of student faces. Students were judged on their creative screen shots, their appropriate use of music, their expression of the book’s theme, their “pitch” of the video to the judges.
Without exception Ken’s students rose to the occasion. Their motivation was obvious in their presentation. They gracefully managed the software’s steep learning curve. Although only one is the official winner, I’ve decided to post all five.
Which would you have chosen?
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Great work on all! I vote for trailer #2, though, if I am judging for a first place winner.
Love your blog; keep up the good work of inspiring other educators and librarians (I am a public library YA librarian in MA).
Laurie
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