5-Minute Film Festival: 7 Video Writing Prompts for Young Authors

The National Novel Creation Month (NaNoWriMo) will appear soon, but it is time to encourage writing for students of all ages. Compared to video writing tips, how do you stimulate their interests and enhance the pencil (or keyboard)? By adding one or more selection questions almost all short and interesting videos can be a good writing hint, but I gathered a favorite list found on the web. Happy lighting!

As shown in the whimsical animation animation of Leaf Snow, you can provide enough material for creative works with short student movies. Furthermore, because it has no dialogue, students can write it yourself!

A short film by art educator Dennis Cassano is full of ambiguous images designed to promote critical thinking. Check out the worksheet on this question and the article on creative writing inspiration using Edutopia's creative art.

RSA Shorts is an animated snapshot of important ideas from speakers raising big problems. This part comes from my favorite famous celebrity, Saeken Robinson. Ask your high school student: What is the thing you can find your passion?

The Harris Burdick's mystery of Chris Van Allsburg is a classic source of visual lighting tips. Please watch the video produced by this student. It explains why strange illustrations that transcend these times provide such young writers with such fertile soil.

Such popular advertisements like mobile phone advertisements from Thailand have more than 20 million viewers. This has a twist affecting the heart string

John Spencer is a professor and writer who is passionate about creativity in the classroom and also produces sketch videos that contain nine animation writing tips for students to use.

Teach HUB is the latest movie trailer and offers lots of video writing tips and course ideas even for current events, holidays videos, even more popular advertisements. The following is an education lesson

The above list shows that any short video can be converted to reliable lighting hints. Of course, the video is only one of the hundreds of ways to stimulate and motivate young writers. If you need new ideas for video and other content, I will collect some resources below. What is your favorite way to make your child participate in creative writing? Share to the comments below

Amy Erin Borovoy, author of Edutopia, wrote a series of videos and articles on the theme of failure in the "5 Min Festival: Freedom of Faith" work. Borovoy's interpretation of John Dewey reminds the reader that "true thinkers learn from mistakes as much as they learned from success." The student 's argument that "what we fail, what we have learned" uses a technique called "effective failure" which allows educators to enter the classroom more quickly. In my writing class, I voluntarily ask students to provide samples of their best or worst writing. This makes it possible for authors to explain understanding of sentences, transitions, word selections, or paragraph composition failure, and stimulate real interest in better writing.

Last week I participated in a week 's film festival "Campus Film Festival", and my attention was far from HouseMate. For strangers, CMF is a national university film festival, and students can spend a week to make a 5 minute movie. (If you do not know me, my main background is video, video, animation, and movies). In collaboration with Chris Lundy, we submitted two movies actually this year. I am very proud of everyone who helped Chris and me this year. This is the fourth year we have done CMF, we have a new team of members to help us write, shoot and deliver the final product. I will present some still images of movies "Arke" and "Black Obsidian" scheduled to be shown at the final round of TCNJ on Wednesday, April 19.

Richard Law BFA '08 (movie / digital video) and Emre Ozdemeal BFA' 10 (movie / digital video) have recently received several prestigious Film Festival awards. Ozdemir's short documentary 'Urva' won the Director's Award at the Black Maria Film + Video Festival and was named Best Student Film at the New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers University. The 13-minute advanced essay movie "Girls, robots and digital cameras" of the law also received the honor of Black Maria and received a jury's choice - the 36th New Jersey Youth Film and Video Producer Day