If a picture is worth a thousand words, than 10 pictures must be worth 10,000 words!

I really enjoyed this assignment. I found it to be very interesting and something that I not only liked doing, but also something that I have connection to. It helps my classmates learn something new about me or just see something that they didn’t before through pictures. It also helps me learn about my classmates. People tell stories all the time, but seeing a story through pictures adds another dimension. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I think that this project helped to support that theory. I think that it was also a unique project because I could only use 10 pictures. This meant that I had to pick the ones that I liked the most and the ones that were the most meaningful for me. Because of Facebook and other technologies, such as digital cameras, there are many more pictures out there available to view and use. This made it necessary for me to only pick one event for me to focus my video on, this was difficult! I could make hundreds of videos with my pictures and did in fact make a couple of extras.

I feel that I put the most effort into picking the pictures I wanted to use in my video. After that I spent a good deal of time trying to make the order appropriate for my pictures and the captions had to be important and short enough, but still get the point across. I had to go back and take some pictures and captions out so that the video was a better quality and everything fit into the allotted time. The music was another thing that I had to decide on, it had to match the theme of my pictures and convey the mood I was striving to achieve.

I think that this would be a good assignment to use at the beginning of the school year. It can be a unique way for teachers to get to know their students. You could ask them to do one on their family so that you could learn about the relationships there. More importantly by assigning these kinds of projects it gives students a sense of accomplishment. I know that I am proud of my mini movie and I can’t imagine the joy that an elementary student would get out of making their own movie. I think that this would be a very rewarding experience for students.