Psyche's Cinema - Short films
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Students love our scrappy stop motion films! Activities include a variety of group and individual projects such as :
* Comparative literature (comparing oral, written, and film versions of the story)
* Creative response -- writing or filming my own version of the story
* Analyzing the written, oral, and film texts
* Role play and interviewing characters from the story
* Social emotional themes
* Exploring other subjects related to the film.
Includes other resource links and a download links for the films.
Five lessons for all five films!
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Two different stores host my integrated curriculum.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/laurajlewisbarr
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Homemade-Cinema-Short-Films
You can view my fairy tale series and and some other early films here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCMutJ4drdBbmlbOoN_4xTg
Follow my channel to be alerted when I add new films (after their festival run). Thank you for supporting independent filmmaking!
After teaching Speech and Drama at community colleges for many years I started teaching adults in corporate settings. I became certified to teach emotional intelligence (my work in drama prepared me for this). When not teaching, I continued to make short films, mostly comedies. My films reflect my heart as an educator and always focus on social-emotional themes.
In my college and workplace teaching, I am always striving for maximum audience interaction. My films offer levels of meaning for students to explore.
My filmmaking style has been influenced by my very meager budget. I work alone and handle all the costuming, set design, filming, and editing. To save money I create humble set pieces and often provide head transplants to bring new doll faces into my films. My audiences appreciate my scrappy visual aesthetic. My films aren't perfect, which means students may be influenced to make films of their own!
.....Wood, Theron, and Mayaba (2012) conducted empirical research on the use of folktales with children orphaned by AIDS in South Africa. Implementing a pre-test/post-test qualitative methodology, they used the telling of 22 culturally relevant traditional stories as their intervention. Stories represented the Xhosa background of the children, and were chosen for their representation of themes related to Masten’s model of resilience (Wood et al., 82 2012).
One story was told each week; researchers did not interact with the children after the telling, in order to control for the effect of external relationship-building.
Themes that emerged were evidence of increased self-efficacy and stronger emotional relationships with others among the participants. While the researchers acknowledged that the complexity of resilience did not allow for straight-forward causal conclusions about these changes, they noted that the children’s spontaneous acting-out of the stories after the researchers had left the orphanage added to the credence of their findings, since this was additional evidence of the children’s sense of agency, and their growing cohesion as a group.
These 52 cards are perfect for individual or group reflections on emotional intelligence. Includes activities and journal prompts. Suitable for staff or students 6th grade and up.
The season 1 link above also has several trailers of other films in my fairy tale series.
You can view my fairy tale series and and some other early films here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCMutJ4drdBbmlbOoN_4xTg
Follow my channel to be alerted when I add new films (after their festival run).
Thank you for supporting independent filmmaking!