Children's and Youth Services

MIDDLE-SCHOOL MOVIE MAKERS

CHARLOTTE'S WEB 2:
ALL ABOUT WILBUR AND CHARLOTTE

HARRY POTTER
AND THE CHAMBER OF THE OBVIOUS

Charlotte's Web 2: All About Charlotte and Wilbur is an adapted screenplay meant to introduce their audience to the meeting of Wilbur, the Pig, and Charlotte, the Spider. The students took a true-to-the-book approach in their movie. They were creative in their explanation of the future of the characters. Harry Potter and The Chamber of the Obvious is meant to be a spoof on Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, intertwining magical elements, Star Wars themes, and Matrix references. The students creating this film thought that the more spoof-like and crazy, the better. They decided on an improvised screenplay... acting scenes out as they went along.

Eight talented middle school movie makers participated in a beginner's film program without the big Hollywood budget. Each selected a book to adapt into a screenplay, either improvised or scripted. Both learned elements of proper filming and editing.






Home