Crafting a Minecraft Film

Students are now on the way to finishing their Fairy tales. All the clips have been placed in final cut pro.  Each clip has been "transformed" to remove the screen capture which reveals the game play tool bar.


Some members of the team are creating music using GarageBand, others are working on the credits, and some are "cutting out the boring bits" often referred to as editing.


Quote "when I watched movie or TV I thought making stuff would be really easy but now I am making one I realise that it is really hard.


We are now in the final push which will include sound effects and a basic mix.


Chrisi is organising The Minecraft Film Festival Premier in our theatre.


Photos from the red carpet will follow.

Session 10 plan

Session 10

Film editing

Use all the footage filmed, in all software or stored in the server. Import it to the Final Cut Pro software to your film project.

AFK

Divide the group into 2.  Editing team and Music/Sound team

 

Software

1.       Editing team

Final Cut Pro

Half the team will edit the footage and work on the flow of the film.

Titles – they will need to add titles and credits to the film.

Consider sound effects that the film may need or that will support the action or plot.

2.       Music/sound team

Garage Band

Half team will begin sound and music creation

Using garage band they will lay loops that tell the story of the movie plot or express the emotions of the characters I the movie at given points

 They will also need to create music for the title and music for the credits.

Sound can relay feelings and emotions. The music and sound you create and choose will give a greater more enjoyable experience to your audience and can help relay the feelings you are trying to portray and support your story line.

Export the music from garage band and load it to the server file, listen to it on the speakers.

Share music and sound with class.

Session 9 plan

Term 2

Session 9

AFK

Gene – review (refresh after term break!)

How to locate your project in Final Cut Pro

How to import your saved files (crazy talk scenes) from server to Final Cut Pro

Using ishowU to film action sequences in Minecraft

 Importing this ishowU media into Final Cut Pro

Filming in world today (ishowU)

Action scene in MinecraftEdu to accompany the dialogue scenes in the film.

Shot styles/types

Pan, tilt

Birdseye view

Steady camera. Don’t rush!

In a group meeting plan 3 to 5 actions scenes that are pivotal to the story line of the film.

 Which characters will be acting in these scenes and what will they be required to do?

 What actions are required?

 Who will the camera person be for the shots and what camera angel will work best?

In World

Log into MinecraftEdu

Move to the location the team has decided on for the action scene sequence

Camera person is the director of the scene

 Rehearse the action and decide on the camera position

Rehearses a few times

Using ishowU film the action scene

 View and repeat if necessary

 Film all the required scenes

Import these scene from ishowU to final cut pro

 

 

 

 

 

Minecraft Camera Action!

We are moving making!

The Fabulous Fairy Tales and Fables of Minecraft

 

Recording character voices using Crazytalk.

Teams delegate tasks.

 2 members are recording lines and 2 are building movie sets in Minecraft.

Recording lines of the movie using their written scripts.

 

 

Editing the speaking parts into a sequence using Final Cut Pro.

 

Plan Sessions 6 7 & 8

Session 6 7 8

Voice recording, filming of The Fabulous Fairy Tales and Fables of Minecraft

AFK

In a team meeting the teams will discuss and plan the process to record the speaking parts for each character of their film. They will need to divide the lines and rehearse their lines.

8 mins

Teams must decide on the order they will record their parts. Each character will use Crazytalk to animate their Mineraft avatar to speak their parts. They will record all their lines of dialogue one after the other. For each line that is recorded the students must give it a name and export it to the desktop. The students can  later edit them into correct script order in Final Cut Pro.

In World

Students work in groups, pairs and singles to film specific scene of their films.

Each team member is to log into Minecraft and take a screen shot of their avatar character in the right setting or the required scene.

Command shift 3 is the function short cut to screen capture.

They are to begin with scenes including dialogue, use the Crazytalk software as the tool to bring the animation to life.

Begin filming speaking scenes for the movie

Each team member will record all the lines for their speaking scenes. They will export them to the desktop from the Crazytalk software. Each scene must be appropriately labelled eg Niko scene 1 line 1. Import all speaking scenes and last weeks action scene to the timeline in Final Cut Pro Ready for editing

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Editing the filmed scenes

Final Cut Pro

To begin todays new film project the teams will need to:

Open Final Cut Pro

File new event, file new project.

Session 5 plan The Fabulous Fairytales and Fables of Minecraft

Session 5

AFK

Creating story board of the film based on the story written in their home group class.

Draw scenes from the film that tell the main event in the story/script the team has developed.
 the sory board can have as much detail as the team requires to enalbe them to construct the sets in minecraft.

Software

Use Photobooth software to photograph each scene.

Drop the photo into Comic Life software and annotate.

annotations must include, scene number, setting, characters emotions or short phrases of dialogue.

This will become an electronic story board that can be refered to duirng the set building an filming phase.
Save these files as both a document and a PDF file and save to the sever.

Minecraft

Team meeting

In this time the teams need to allocate roles to each member. They are to work together to construct the set that will be used in the first scene of theiir film. (As per the story board)

Goal set
Building Role assignment and clarification

In World
Student willl spawn or be teleported to the location station for their class. They are to find their team mates and move to a suitable location not to far from their location station.
Begin building their first set.
 

Minecraft Script Grade 4-6

Script written for Minecraft Film created by four students