We have just over five more lessons allocated to our film project - so time is truly of the essence. Filming starts tomorrow: we plan to film the first couple of scenes of the movie in under an hour!
As time and money are equally tight, today's lesson had to broach the subject of costumes. The pupils were keen on full zombie regalia for the second part of the film and were beginning to envisage rather a big budget affair with make up and ghastly robes.
I showed the pupils this very short film clip I had taken of myself the night before. Using imovie the pupils had to render their fluffy and approachable English teacher in as terrifying a way as possible. I think they did quite a good job!
My aim was to show them that a little special effects wizardry can do away with the need for fancy costumes and make up. I'm not sure whether this aim sunk in or not- they were having far too much fun distorting my face.
As you can probably tell, I'm still getting to grips to working with a Mac! Hopefully my pupils will be able to help me out here...
