Don’t forget that you can go back even after camp and refer to the Instructions and Tutorials Page link directly below:
Beargrass Media Instructions and Tutorials Page
To get intouch, send an email to: beargrassmedia@gmail.com
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Here are Wednesday’s Videos
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Wednesday PM activity for Patrick’s Group
Make a fake political ad for or against a candidate.
Here is an example from Lincoln Elementary:
OR
Make a commercial for a fake product:
Here is an example from Bloom Elementary
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Wednesday morning’s assignment for Patrick’s Group
Day 2 Genre piece for Patrick’s groups – Genre assigned to each person is at the end of the exercise.
You will draw a genre at the beginning of the exercise. You will pick music to go along with your movie genre.
Start with 5 seconds of title slide that you made from found objects in your house. You might decide to animate it (your choice)
The music should be in the film from the beginning.
Record 4 shots that are 4 seconds long each that match your genre.
Add this voice over to the music under the four shots.
“I just KNEW it. Just when you think you have it ALL planned out, the whole thing blows up in your face. And then you have to pick up the pieces”
Show yourself standing over some sort of situation that you have to fix.
Record yourself fixing the situation either using timelapse or using several different camera angles.
Directly address the camera and say “Finally”
Have a sound effect draw your attention to another part of the house, look in that direction and say “What Now?”
Use a “floor shot” where the camera is at floor level and you step over the camera and head towards the other situation that is “Broken”
Look at the mess, then look at the camera and announce that you need to call a professional. (You write the actual line)
Show yourself on the phone vaguely describing the problem. You sit and wait a few seconds and show something that indicates the passage of time.
The doorbell rings, and you head to the door to answer it.
You are the character at the door in a totally different outfit and holding a very unlikely prop .
Use a closeup of you as the “Fixer” looking at the camera and raising their eyebrows.
Show you as the customer nodding in approval.
Show you as the fixer entering the house and the door closing.
Add the credits slide, and add your own couple lines of text like written by _____, starring ____, etc.
Kieran – Science Fiction
JB – War
Willa – Detective
Davis – Fantasy
Adrian – Detective
Joseph – Road Movie
Aiden – Historical Fiction
Lillian – Romance
Henry – Action
Max – Horror
Clara – Drama
Maya – Thriller
Graham – Western
Sam – Drama
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Monday’s Assignment for Jon-Mark’s Group
Multi Scene Movie
Day 2, Experienced Students, 2 Day Winter Camp
Take the whole day, pick a genre, write a story about any of the ideas
that are given below (yes, you can chose your own) and include the
essential elements.
Essential Elements:
1. Must include at least 3 scenes.
2. Write out an outline for each scene, include a storyboard or
specific camera shots with your outline.
3. Do not to use the same camera shot twice in a row. (Example- if
you used a mid shot for one shot use a close up for the next)
4. Use an establishing shot to begin your video
5. Have your film be 3-5 minutes long.
Genres:
Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery or Thriller
Writing Prompts:
-Plan a movie in which your hero has a special weapon. Who is your
hero? What is his or her weapon of choice? How is it used? Do they
need to master that weapon or do they already know how to use it.
-What if your pet’s brain was transported to your body?
-Write a conversation between you and your worst enemy at a meal.
-Would you rather be invisible or able to fly? What would happen if you
had one of those powers?
-You answer a phone you find in your mailbox. The caller says…
-How will robots take over your house?
-What if you found that your staircase went up one extra flight? Where
would it go?
-You wake up with a mysterious stain on your shirt and strange things
in your room. How did it happen?
If you need any help, hop on the call with Jon-Mark
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Tuesday’s videos:
Yellow Group Assignment
Day 1, Experienced Students, 2 Day Winter Camp
Take the whole day, mix stop-motion animation with live action to
make a Buddy Movie.
Mandatory Shots
1. Include continuation shots with your stop motion animation.
2. Include more than one reaction shot in the whole film
Live Action Animation: A genre of movie that mixes forms of animation
into a live action movie. Examples include: Space Jam, Who Framed
Roger Rabbit and Mary Poppins.
Buddy Movies: The buddy film is a film genre in which 2 or more people
are put together on an adventure, a quest, or a road trip. At least two
of them often contrast in personality. Then Hilarity ensues…
Examples include: Men In Black, Shrek, The Good Dinosaur, Trolls, Sonic
the Hedgehog
Notes:
The plot doesn’t matter much, but there should be some sort of
conflict- can’t play outside because it’s raining, can’t find a special
object…
If you need any help, hop on the call with Jon-Mark
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Winter On-line Video Production Camp for students grades 3 – 8
Partnership between Highlands Community Ministries & Beargrass Media
Two-day camp instructing in intermediate to advanced video techniques
Tuesday and Wednesday December 29-30, 2020 9 AM – 4 PM
Camp cost is $80
Application Deadline December 23, 2020
Register via this Google Form
To pay for the camp, please write a check to Beargrass Media and mail it to 2513 Blvd Napoleon, Louisville, KY 40205.
The camp will be conducted in an on-line format with a mixture of group video calls, one on one video tutorial calls, student “video assignments”, files transferred back and forth between students and instructors, and quality finished videos produced. The students will use phones, tablets and computers owened by their families with some potential for loaned video equipment. The students will take stories from start to finish through the following steps: idea, story board, script, recording, file management, editing, special effects, sound design, rendered video, and publication on the web.
For a few examples of past videos made at Beargrass Video Camps, click Here.
Camp Director Bios
Jon-Mark Sandquist was the director of the Bloom Elementary Media Club for 5 years. He also has taught music lessons to children in Louisville for 15 years. He has done freelance graphic design for many local businesses. His video team called 8 Pint Productions has competed in the Louisville 48-Hour Film Project for each of the past five years and been invited to the “Best of 48 HRFP” four times.
Patrick Fitzgerald has worked with Louisville youth on video projects for the past 12 years. He started the Bloom Elementary Media Club in 2008, and led it for five seasons producing two weekly broadcasts featuring over 100 students from the school’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. He started Beargrass Media in 2011 and has led after school programs under that name every year since that time at Highland Middle School, The Louisville Free Public Library, Kentucky Youth Career Center, Neighborhood House, Iroquois High School, the Boys and Girls Club, and the Kentucky YMCA Youth Association. Beargrass Media has entered films in the Louisville 48-Hour Film Project each of the past 7 years and been invited to the “Best of 48 HRFP” four times. Starting in 2019, Patrick became the City Producer of the Louisville 48 Hour Film Project. Beargrass Media has produced videos for nonprofit organizations including Kentucky Waterways Alliance, WE Day Kentucky, The Louisville Nature Center, Metro Housing Coalition, and the Olmsted Parks Conservancy.