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The process to filming the movie is somewhat longer than I think it needs to be but very helpful in staying organized. I would have a tendency to just go with it as the filming progresses rather than sticking to a set storyboard. This is probably not always a great idea because I would probably get lost in tangents and the main point behind the filming. I think designating roles on the storyboard sheet and having a script kept me on track and more focused on what we needed to accomplish in each scene.

From a teacher’s perspective, I see the movie making process as a good way for group collaboration and a way to show students’ organizational strategies. There could be some difficulty in implementing the creation of a video with an entire class because of technology resources. As well as what happens when most of the writing and beginning processes are over, the part that would seem to involve the whole class. Once filming is started, it seems like there would be more students with nothing to do but wait to edit. This could lead to problems, unless it is a very small class.

In reading about using video technology in the classroom, I saw how far a lesson plan can go. Because students in this era need to be computer literate as well as learn the appropriate curriculum, using a video process to include both seems like a great idea. The way that they introduced how preplanning creates a good dynamic in the classroom, was something that I had not thought about. Having students negotiating creatively in order to all complete the same goal is a great benefit to them. However, I just have overall concerns with how to have different scenes filmed and at what point does the video project have to and be deemed completed? How do 20 people go to film a scene outside? Though the entire process in creating a movie is very beneficial, I think using clips already available and asking them to edit it using Imovie is another way to utilize technology. This could be film related to the curriculum and have to work in groups to organize it in the correct order.