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By Jim MacDonald Film has calmed the cur- riculum of Waterloo Region elementary schools during the past few years in a con- cept designed to give young students the tools to ana- lyae a media form which has such a great impact on them. The purposes of the silt- hour course, which has been taught in grades ranging from one to eight, are to combine the art of illusion with investigation and to develop perception and critical analysis in the young students. The peculiar and unique qualities of film- making are also studied. Students hopefully will also discriminate more in choosing which television and film programs they "1t's a starting point only," said Bob Graham, a Waterloo County Board of Education learning re- sources consultant, who Bob Graham. a learning resources consultant with the Waterloo County Board of Education, reaches for a film in the board's film library at Victoria public school in Kitchener. Mr. Graham is Involved with a film course in coun- ty elementary schools. '_________1 C.TiErliMe2 Bl CTIELiiiLLdLLI I I n v I Watch this space for future announcements of auctions Rummelhart Auction Sales Co. 744-9679 5730060 Film production is paplilar school subject KEN GARVEY Licensed Auctioneer described the course. “The concepts are what we're. after." _ Mr. Graham noted that this is the electronic age and students should irwesti- gate a medium which they are "dealing with every- day." The idea for the course started four or five years ago when Dave Woods, now the principal of Empire public school in Waterloo. attended a film seminar at a convention in New York. He decided to apply what tie had learned to the classroom here. Along with learning re- sources consultant Art Hodg- son, Mr. Woods and a group of grade four students de- veloped a short animated film entitled Spooks which incorporated the whole process of film making. Using super 8 mm. film, the young students went through the entire shoot- ing process - conception of F-. Regional news l Loin. (poi-v. of scenes. 'bac'kgrouds} and shooting. - A “That vi: many the nucleus of the current ttim course," Mr. Graham said. The film, produced over a five-month period, was a "very, verygogd film." “It was really compre- hensive," w. Graham said, adding it was a "pretty sophisticated film for grade fourkids." The conéultants worked on forming a process'that could operate efficiently and still beabletoteach the basic principles of film- making and achieve the course's goals. But there were pitfalls, the major one being the projecttookteelqng, A - "it was difficult at times toheep it roping," he said. A pattism was developed cutting the process. to a bare minimum. Such con- cerns as lighting, back- grounds and music were cut from the"qtrocess and it 528 Victoria St. N.. Kitchener '(Benido Wanton Bulletins) 7456]”. After hours 573771.54 Luge Indoor Showman: SUPERIOR MEMORIALS FOR FALL INSTALLATION YOUR MEMORIAL SHOULD RF. ORDERED NOW was dividod into shone- hour session. The ttrat two hours are Sign in investigating the fil media including a look at the roots of 'film-making plus its unique qualities and such techniques as the speeding q or slowing down of a film to create differ- ent moods, "Fitm is really the ability to orchestrate film and sound to tell a story," Mr. Graham'said. Following the investiga- tion, the students apply the basic concepts they have learned and make their own cameraless, hand drawn animated film. Through this, the students "get the feeling for the mechanics of film umak- For example, take a class of 30 students. A 90-hot strip of acetate film would be laid on tables or in a gymnasium. Three-foot sections would be marked off and each student would draw their own images on the frames. The short films would be shown to the stu- dents (hopefully at the end of the class for immediate feedback) and the young film-makers would have an opportunity to criticize their own and others work. And they do criticize. 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