Movie Making in the Classroom

Can it really be this easy to create a free green screen?

Green Screen

Apparently, all you need is green butcher paper and iMovie. I don’t have any experience using green screens but I am definitely intrigued!

April Kreitzer tried it out and wrote a nice tutorial here if you’d like to learn more.

I like the idea of making a movie with your class. I have done so in the past and the students really got a lot out of it. We wrote it together collaboratively. But we had to consider the practicality of shooting while we wrote it. We had to restrict the setting to locations we had available to use. With a green screen, we would no longer be restricted to just shooting in the school or yard. The students’ imaginations could run wild. And that is a beautiful thing!

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