In school children learn to read
and write. At some point those writings come alive as they
learn to turn their writings into stories. Taking those
stories one-step further, you can encourage creating them on
film. How would you go about doing
that?
First go over their story.
See if it needs to be created into a script. If there
is conversation of the characters you can create these
into script that can be acted out. If not your child can
read the whole story on camera or audio recording. Now
that recording becomes the narration of the
video.
Next decide how this movie will
be told. Will it be acted out like a play? Maybe it
will be animated with toys, or it can be told with a picture
slideshow. In some cases all three of these can be
used.
Once you finish the filming, the
last step is to edit your film. This is where the whole
story comes together. With editing you can add titles, sound
effects and music to round out the story. If you are not aware
of how to edit a film, we here at Tears of Joy Video would be
happy to do this for you. Notice two stories we did below
for our niece and see how these stories come alive with
film.
When your child
sees their stories on film it gives the a sense of pride.
It also stimulates their imagination to create more
stories. You never know where this
imagination may take them. Who knows, maybe one day you
will be the mom sitting in the audience as they thank you for
receiving their Oscar.
