The First Annual Room 6 2 1/2 Hour Film Competition

What's the best way for Room 6 to celebrate two birthdays in one day? A film competition of course!

I have been wanting to try this with the kids as a way to encourage creativity and bring the Key Competencies to the forefront of our group work. Shout out to Room 4 and Mr. O'Regan for sharing the idea with us!

The plan:

In groups, students got to choose a 'theme'- we brainstormed these and came up with scary, adventure, comedy, musical, family and.....romantic. Surprise surprise, most groups chose comedy!

Each group was given a prop and encouraged to use it in a creative, 'outside the square' way. These included a ring, an umbrella, a glue gun, a basket, scales and sunscreen.

Each group also had a line that they had to include in their script. Can you guess what it was from viewing the videos?

The finished films were meant to be no longer than 2 minutes long.

Once that was all sorted the groups had 2 1/2 hours to plan, film, edit and submit their films. Not much time, but they all made it!

Have a look at our finished products. I reckon we have some budding directors, actors and comedians!!

Best use of the prop goes to:

Pandoniesa Gone Wrong from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

Best use of the line goes to:

The Cursed Ring from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.

Best overall goes to:

The Mystery Stick from Room6HSS on Vimeo.



....and here are all of the fabulous runners up:

The Mystery Muffin Box from Room6HSS on Vimeo.

The Confused Kid from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.


The Halloween Monkey from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.

The End Of The World from Miss Bailey on Vimeo.