Digital Blue Cameras

Ideas

Compose a montage ‘Images from our class’. Pupils develop and refine their ideas by bringing together film footage and still clips they had taken, and organizing and reorganizing video, still images, sound and text.

Analyse a TV advert and make one either for an existing product or one invented.

Create a TV advert, as a fun, extension in year 5 persuasive texts.

Support persuasive writing e.g. not to build houses/ motorway/ factory on a green strip through journalistic style videos.

Using 'Characterisation' as a theme. Ask children to consider how they might portray feelings using digital imagery such as; fear, excitement, sadness, surprise, suspicion etc. This can lead to ideas, which address PSHE issues such as, Bullying, Friendship, Feeling Lonely.

Video a retell or re-enactment e.g. Shakespeare/ story telling

"How to play kwik cricket video"

Devise a gymnastic routine and perfect it.

Record science experiments e.g. spinners. Y6, gravity, speed. growing plants, snail eating habits! Ripening fruit/ going to seed, decaying food.

Re-enact a scene from history e.g. Henry Viii and 6 wives

Blitz movies - children edit and record voice overs.

Pupils imagine they are TV interviewers back in time and consider questions they would ask.

Geography - community study, where we live

Support work in PHSE on bullying through either journalistic videos or drama.

Recording Children's thoughts in PHSE "How should we behave in the Playground" etc - makes interesting videos for other classes to use as stimuli.

Designing demonstration videos in PHSE about fire drills.