PINEWOOD AND THE EUforia PROJECT
April 10, 2016
We are proud to communicate exciting
news. Our Grade 6 Social Studies students will participate in the
EUforia Programme, a transnational cultural partnership between Greece,
Hungary and Poland, made possible through funding by European
Commission’s MEDIA program.
EUforia Programme, is a hands-on film making project focusing in:
- tackling the ways in which urban landscapes were re-shaped through major EU infrastructure projects in cities such as Thessaloniki, Athens, Lodz and Budapest
- promoting Film Education and Audience Development.
Using film as a vehicle for creative
expression our Grade 6 Social Studies students are invited to become
themselves creators of meaning through the production of a digital short
documentary.
Our students will:
- Produce a short documentary film with a consumer camcorder, digital SLR camera, or cell phone.
- Explore the inherent strengths of the camera: closeness, showing rather than telling, shooting to edit.
- Learn how to shoot: Framing, Shooting Do’s & Don’ts, Camera Shots & Movements.
- Handle audio material.
- Learn how to conduct research and interviews.
Pinewood students will investigate and
present the Rotunda, part of the vast imperial palace at Thessaloniki,
constructed by Galerius around the year AD 300. The Rotunda was turned
into a Christian church about a hundred years after Galerius’ death and a
Moslem Mosque following the fall of Thessaloniki to the Ottomans.
Today the Rotunda is a UNESCO, World Heritage Monument and an “Icon” of
Thessaloniki’s history. All Thessaloniki students created documentaries
will be presented in Thessaloniki’s International Film Festival, as part
of its educational section. As the Rotunda is a Roman-Early Christian
monument the EUforia-Rotunda project fits perfectly within our Social
Studies /Host Studies Curriculum.
Mrs Amalia Spiliakou, Grade 6 Social Studies/Host Studies Teacher, and
Mr Kostas Papantoniou, the school’s Photographer par excellence, will be
Pinewood’s EUforia coordinators.
