Fantastic!

You know who Roald Dahl is, but do you know who Mr Fox is? Do you know why he is under stress? Watch this book trailer made by LS1's own Hector to get a taste of what awaits in Fantastic Mr Fox.

This film is a book trailer. The purpose of book trailers is to increase awareness of a book and entice people into reading it. Book trailers was the theme for Panmure Bridge School's 2021 Manaiakalani Film Festival films.

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

 "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J. R. R. Tokien

And one of the things you could be doing while in lockdown is reading The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.

This film is a book trailer. The purpose of book trailers is to increase awareness of a book and entice people into reading it. Book trailers was the theme for Panmure Bridge School's 2021 Manaiakalani Film Festival films.

COVID

Whoa there! Have you washed and sanitised your hands?

Welcome to LS1's contribution to the 2020 Manaiakalani Film Festival. As with most all of our films for the past three years or so, this is a parody. That means, it is supposed to be funny and silly while making fun of something. Can you figure out what is being made fun of?

Blog Labels

Learning Space 1 are streamlining their blogging and moving towards creating comment threads. To facilitate this process LS1 are going three things:

1. Reducing the labels used to the following: Achievements, Arts, Cybersmart, EotC,HPE, Inquiry, Kiwi Sport, KiwiCan, Manaiakalani, Māori, Maths, Reading, Science, Summer Learning Journey, Technology, Writing
2. Using one of three different test types for posting: recount, information report, explanation
3. Engaging with other bloggers, asking questions, and replying to questions.

How to Cybermsmart

How do children use Cybersmarts here at Panmure Bridge School and within the Manaiakalani Cluster as a whole? Watch this tutorial to find out.

LS1 contributes "How to Cybersmart" as one of three submissions to the 2019 Manaiakalani Film Festival.

In 2019 our learners have again been learning about satire. We have taken the famous How to Dad's videos as inspiration for a way to look into our own learning and teaching practises as learners and teachers. We considered our practises to find a simplistic interpretation, then expressed that interpretation in a comedic way.

A small group was asked to research, write, storyboard, and film the movies this year. They had support from Mr Wong who also did much of the editing.

How to Hold a Netbook - LS1's 2019 Manaiakalani Film

How do children hold their netbooks here at Panmure Bridge School and within the Manaiakalani Cluster as a whole? Watch this tutorial to find out.

LS1 contributes "How to Hold a Netbook" as one of three submissions to the 2019 Manaiakalani Film Festival.

In 2019 our learners have again been learning about satire. We have taken the famous How to Dad's videos as inspiration for a way to look into our own learning and teaching practises as learners and teachers. We considered our practises to find a simplistic interpretation, then expressed that interpretation in a comedic way.

A small group was asked to research, write, storyboard, and film the movies this year. They had support from Mr Wong who also did much of the editing.

How to Learn - LS1's 2019 Manaiakalani Film

How do children learn here at Panmure Bridge School and within the Manaiakalani Cluster as a whole? Watch this tutorial to find out.

LS1 contributes "How to Learn" as one of three submissions to the 2019 Manaiakalani Film Festival.

In 2019 our learners have again been learning about satire. We have taken the famous How to Dad's videos as inspiration for a way to look into our own learning and teaching practises as learners and teachers. We considered our practises to find a simplistic interpretation, then expressed that interpretation in a comedic way.

A small group was asked to research, write, storyboard, and film the movies this year. They had support from Mr Wong who also did much of the editing.

It's a Bit Dicey - LS1's 2018 Manaiakalani Film

LS1 contributes It's a Bit Dicey to the 2018 Manaiakalani Film Festival.

The Olympics are an example of many different kinds of people coming together to compete in the spirit of mutual respect, self improvement, and friendly competition. Everyone has the intent of being friendly, but people have put a lot of hard training into their performance. What might happen if there was a dispute?

The producers and writers of this movie have made a parody on old poorly dubbed kung fu movies to satirise a number of themes, but mainly certain behaviours that can be (although shouldn't be) expressed in high end competition.

As was the case for LS1's movie last year, learners were given a theme, then told to write a narrative. The best narrative was chosen to be made into a movie.

Filming with a smartphone

Have you decided to record your movie on your smartphone?

Are you missing a tripod or smartphone mount for your tripod?

Have you got some Lego lying around?

If your answer to each of these questions is "YES", then why not build your own tripod?

This is a tripod I put together in a rush. It is designed for a 156 x 75 x 7.3mm smartphone (adjustable) to be held in landscape orientation. The tripod also has a limited ability to act as a dolly. With minor adjustment, the tripod can also tilt steadily or be set to a chosen tilt angle.

I look forward to reading about your own advances on my idea.

Mr Wong

I've got a bad feeling about this...

Learning Space 1 contributes Bad Feeling to the 2017 Manaiakalani Film Festival.

What would you do if you noticed the streets were empty on your way to school? What would you do if you saw one of your friends attacked by another student? Julian and Alex suffer this ordeal.

To make this movie, children in Learning Space 1 that had an idea for a movie wrote and submitted their narratives. The children or groups of children then had to submit a plan of the resources and actors needed. The best prepared group with the most movie-like narrative was selected to make their movie.

The learners in the successful group then took on the roles of actors, camera operator, director, and editor. Other roles that need to be acknowledged are Mr Johnston, Panmure Bridge School's principal, and the other children of Learning Space 1 taking the roles of crazed kids.

The Legend of Rahi

How to make a time machine

The time machine in Lost in Time was made with:

• a calculator ($2 shop)
• aluminium tape
• a muesli bar box
• a foam sanding block (using something harder is better)
• a plastic button
• super glue

Steps:

1. Pull apart the calculator. Be careful to keep all the parts intact and on the table, especially the working calculator circuitry.
2. MAKE A PLAN. Draw out a plan for the prop. Include the buttons that are needed, exclude the unnecessary buttons. Make sure measurements have at least 1mm of give, making the prop easier to assemble at the end.
   
3. Cut the frame for the prop's face. Make sure the buttons fit and can move freely. Make sure the screen fits without falling out.
   
4. Cut the outer frame that houses the calculator guts. Do this in two parts, the top half to fit around the calculator circuitry, the bottom half to keep the circuitry together.
5. Apply the aluminium tape to the face. Cut out holes, fold in tape flaps to ensure the illusion of a metal object.
   
6. Glue the top half of the frame onto the face.
7. Align the circuitry with the buttons. Check the calculator still works.
8. Attach the bottom half of the frame, and apply tape to cover the prop.

With step 8 completed, the time machine was completed and ready to go. The final cherry-on-top was weathering the prop to make it look like it was a real, used object and not something that was made 2 minutes ago. This was done with sandpaper, black paint, black, brown, and green pastels, black whiteboard marker, and paper towels. The sandpaper was used to scuff up the prop, then the paint etc. were rubbed into the prop with the paper towel. The machine was also thrown around the classroom a bit to provide bumps, but this is not recommended since it could break the calculator...as it did in this case.

Manaiakalani Film Festival

Room 9 from Panmure Bridge contributes the short film Lost in Time to the Manaiakalani Film Festival. Room 9 students' roles were writers, actors, and filming assistants. Writing and storyboarding were difficult. Filming was difficult when our green screen got broken, and we had to use a blue cloth in place of our proper green screen.

* Update 11/11/2015
Thanks for all the comments. If you are interested, here is a link to how to make a time machine like the one in the movie.