Moviemaking

We loved this one! It was so much fun.

We used www.storyboardthat.com to create the storyboard. It was easy. It has a lot of different backgrounds, props, and posed people you can put into scenes. We just did one picture for each scene to represent what was happening in the story. We decided the easiest way to do this was to have a silent film, so we didn’t have to worry about dialogue. That made it so much simpler! We used PowerPoint for the text boxes in the film. We filmed at a quiet, semi-wild park near our meeting place. We put it together in Windows MovieMaker, which is really simple. I changed all the video files to black and white/sepia in Windows MovieMaker, and we sped up the video to 1.5 speed, so it was a little fast and jerky like old silent films. It really turned out great. And, it was a HUGE hit when we shared it at Pack Meeting! Of course then we also burned it onto a DVD so our Scouts could keep a copy. :)

You can do a google search for "silent film music" to get the background music. You can also watch a few silent films on YouTube as an example before you start--just be sure you pre-screen them so you don't have any inappropriate surprises when you are showing your Scouts!