Last term two
second year classes created a
litter-less lunch campaign. We worked with professional film makers to devise a
story board in small groups. The storyboard was to promote awareness of the
effects of dropping litter. The story
board needed to show the consequences of dropping the litter and also needed a
catchy slogan! The winning story board would be taken and made into a short
advert and then would be entered into a competition against other schools. In
class we looked at all of the story boards and scored them one to ten (one
being the worst and ten being the best) on various attributes. We also got the
eco team involved and asked them to choose their favourite, along with the
teachers and Ms Jordan-our media expert.
It was decided
that the winning story board was created by Billy, Dylan and Dale (2EN7) and a
group of other second year pupils were chosen to take part in the filming of
the advert. Their idea was: three friends are strolling through the woods; one
of the girls drops a piece of litter and gets attacked by a tree!
We worked
collaboratively with the professional film makers and spent the day filming in
Roley’s wood. Working with film cameras and boom microphones helped to finish
our film to the highest possible standard! Learning about white balance, focus,
exposure and framing helped improve our knowledge of film techniques. The
advert was prepared in three different stages, initially we learnt about the filming
techniques, following that we began to film in Roley’s wood. It took a whole
day but was definitely worth it! To finish, we began working with professional
editing software and edited the advert to make it look professional! This would
hopefully give us a good shot at winning the competition.
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| New bin stickers designed by Jonathan McVinnie |
To promote our
advert and to raise awareness we began a ‘missing’ campaign. The girl who had
been attacked by the tree in the advert was now declared missing so we made
posters and news reports to go up around the school. The film has now been shown
to all the pupils to bring together the whole campaign and the anti-litter
drive!
If we win the
competition, our advert will be made to a professional standard and used in
anti-litter work throughout the year in many different domains across Edinburgh. How exciting!
There is also a viewing of the adverts for all schools involved at the
Filmhouse, so we even get a taster of the successes film-makers have too.
We have really
enjoyed this experience and would love to have an opportunity like this again.
Thank you to all the people who made it possible as we have learnt some great
skills for later in life! It has definitely opened our eyes to the different
possible careers out there and it’s great to think that we’ve done our bit for
the planet at the same time.
Fin Rutherford (2K1) and Eilidh Grubb
(2K2)
