Product Details

• Directors: Tom Davenport
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1993
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• ASIN: 1888522119
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #588,997 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Actor

Film and television have become the primary bearers of myth and storytelling in our society, influencing our actions and affecting social change. That's why media literacy is important. When we teach our students textual literacy, we expect them to understand how to read and how to write. There has been an increasing emphasis on teaching students how to criticize, or "read," media. Unfortunately, few people know how to produce, or "write," media.

Product Description

Making Grimm Movies is a sixty-minute video divided into classroom convenient 20-minute parts that teach the basic principles of creative moviemaking. Based on examples from Tom Davenport's "From the Brothers Grimm" folktale series, "Making Grimm Movies" shows young people how to use resources and locations in their own communities to produce inexpensive videos. Videos about moviemaking tend to be either illustrated guides, like primitive Kodak manuals, or publicity films about the special effects and celebrity personalities of high-budget features. "Making Grimm Movies," on the other hand, speaks to the inventive young filmmaker with a limited budget and unlimited creative energy.

Program one covers script-writing, casting, and makeup. Program two features locations, set design, sound, and the "creation" of locations through juxtaposition of images. Program three includes cinematography, editing, and film acting.