Using a Sentence to Make a Silent Film – an activity for all

Contributed by: William Bryant Rozier

September 21, 2022

Without music and dialogue, silent films are basically just photographs. So, where do you put the camera? Let’s explore how to (among other things) pull context clues from a sentence and how close-ups are the adjectives of photography/films to create a series of images to make a silent film. Students can do this with a cellphone camera or iPad/tablet.

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  • William Bryant Rozier

    William Bryant Rozier is a writer/art director out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Along with his local and national credits as a writer and photographer, Rozier owns Scrambled Eggs LLC, a print and digital media production company that focuses primarily on producing education materials. He’s currently teaching middle school students filmmaking using English principles at Saint Joseph Catholic School: www.DareCycle.com.

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