movie kit animation MK3: Gamekids

Adapted from George Layton's classic tale "The Balaclava Story" this movie was scripted, storyboarded and performed by Year 5 and 6 pupils at St Peter's Primary School, Easton, Norwich - to whom my grateful thanks and admiration.
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Overview
Adapted from George Layton's classic "The Balaclava Story" from "The Fib: and other stories" . George has also written two other excellent collections of stories The Swap and The Trick . The Balaclava Story also has some learning resources on the Governments Standards Site. 

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Components - click highlighted areas to link
Scene 1 Unedited            
Charlie is being left out on the playground.
For additional voiceover click here		 Scene 2 Unedited          
Charlie complains and asks her Mum to buy one.
Lots of different angles
 Scene 3  Unedited           
Back at school Charlie can't work with her friends and gets in trouble .
 Scene 4 Unedited           
Washing her hands in the cloakroom Charlie impulsively steals a Gameboy
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Scene 5 Unedited            
Charlie runs home but seems to have lost the Gameboy. Blooper in this scene!		 Scene 6 Unedited        
Mum has changed her mind and bought Charlie a Gameboy
 		Scene 7 Unedited            
Guilty nightmares make Charlie take drastic action
 		Scene 8 and 9 Unedited
After an scary assembly Charlie gets a shock
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The Directors Cut                                                          
A finished version of the movie.  Watch to give an overview before beginning or to compare with pupil's versions. Just shows what can be done in an "ordinary" school by "ordinary" pupils.  All locations were in the school building or grounds. 		 Gamekids Music mp3                                                  
Composed by Kate Brook.
Originally a midi file so has the slightly "tinny" sound quality of handheld games.  Perfect for title, credits and incidental music.  The middle section is ideal for the silent dream sequence.
Photo Storyboards  Scene 1  and  Scene 4              
Children often find it difficult to visualise different shots when they draw storyboards. Try giving them a still camera and tell them to compose a picture for each line of script. Photo Story 3 can be used to assemble such storyboards and record the script.

Gamekids Script                                                            
Written by the Year 5 and 6 children at St. Peter's...
Use the script to help make sense of the unedited video. It's a Word file so it can be reformatted, reorganised etc. Can you spot the mistake in the video in Scene 3?
Movie Maker Tutorials                                                                                                                                                 
 I haven't created my own yet as there are several decent sets of video tutorials on the net already (all American). If my other tutorials prove popular I'll do some that are a bit more "child-friendly" than these... 

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This set of video tutorials is short and to the point. It does have all the content set out as a picture and text tutorial too, so if you miss or forget something from the video use this as an aide memoire. Part of the excellent 'Make Internet TV' site.
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Extensive and detailed tutorials on all aspects of editing with Movie Maker. If you work through this lot you'll know the program extremely well - a bit dull though!