Week 4 Recap

What a week! The campers traveled a long journey of exploring the qualities of epic tales. We started the week by viewing a powerpoint about epic tales and the 6 qualities of epics. We then started working on our own script and storyboard for the movie we would produce. 

 Script writing is hard work! So we took some time off to play a little "Star Wars Jedi Master Life." Miss. Sarah won - it came down to her Jedi Padawan vs. Mr. I's Sith Lord.

We went out to scout locations and then filmed the movie short on Wednesday and Thursday. 

 Once we shot the film, we were up in the "editing room" for hours...organizing, cutting and mixing footage, adding sound, etc. The kids now know the basics of Adobe Premiere Elements editing software and a little more about file organization.

On Friday, with our movie wrapped, we finished our read aloud of a children's version of The Odyssey. We watched "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou," a very funny retelling of Homer's masterpiece. The campers LOVED "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" and were able to pick up on many of the literary references and symbols. I was so proud! We concluded the week with our own puppet show version of The Odyssey completely improvised by the campers. GREAT JOB kids!

Here is the campers film short:

Here is the puppet show. This is hysterical!