Fifth Grade Fugleflick Filmmakers spent 2 months creating a story to an original song to encourage everyone to shift their thinking from can't to can. Change that little voice in your head from fixed thinking to a growth mindset and TRY YOUR BEST!
Special FXs Explained:
This movie is full of special effects made with drawn animation and/or green screen. Students used relative size to become the small voice in your head saying positive things to encourage you to TRY YOUR BEST. Here are some of the FX students used.
This little sprite popped onto the TV screen to encourage a student making art. He first had to be layered onto a screenshot of an iPad. Then the artist had to be filmed looking at a TV with the color green on it's screen. The two were layered in the GS app by Do Ink.
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Some of the effects students used in this movie have been done before in previous Fugleflicks or projects. The thought bubble trick is explained in this post.
This effect is a straight forward use of relative size to make the sprites look very small. See this post about relative size for a tutorial and more ideas for using this trick.
I'm so excited to see the silhouette special FX in this Fugleflick. This idea has its own post explaining how we found this trick on accident and some of the amazing ideas you can use it for.
For one scene, a student is drawing and gets frustrated. She slams down her marker and gives up. As the art heads to the garbage can, the portrait on it speaks out to its artist begging for her to not give up. This special FX was create after a series of steps as show in the video. The animation was created through rotoscope. See this post to learn more.
This effect where a student spins into a painting with a quick size change was so amazing that it received it's own blog post here.
To make these little sprites fly, we had them pose in the last moment of their video. Then we used a still image of the last frame of the video and made them fly using the keynote app. To enhance the magic, we used a pixie title effect without words (just typed a space) to create a trail of sprite dust as they fly off the screen.
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Want to learn the song?
#GSVFF Entry
Students wanted to tell the story of a fixed mindset changing to a growth mindset with the encouragement of positive little voices to combat the negative little voices you hear in your own head. Many students need this message so the filmmakers tried to get in their shoes (and heads) to help others Try their Best.
Since this video fits the theme "In Another's Shoes" we trimmed it down to 2 minutes so it could qualify for the first annual Global Student Voice Film Festival. To take a 3 min 40 sec song down to 2 minutes wasn't easy. The best way was to trim each chorus and remove the bridge. We were allowed another 1 minute of credits. I think it still tells the story just as well though some awesome scenes were removed in this version.
Since this video fits the theme "In Another's Shoes" we trimmed it down to 2 minutes so it could qualify for the first annual Global Student Voice Film Festival. To take a 3 min 40 sec song down to 2 minutes wasn't easy. The best way was to trim each chorus and remove the bridge. We were allowed another 1 minute of credits. I think it still tells the story just as well though some awesome scenes were removed in this version.
Public Screenings of Try Your Best
| Try Your Best has been selected for a public screening in the Screen Test Jr Film Festival in Schaumburg on Saturday, April 21st alongside films from Arizona, Texas, Sweden, and Canada. Those who could not attend will skype in to talk about their films. |  |
 Photo of screening from last year's Fugleflick, Don't Crush My Dreams | Thursday, May 3, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm the Arlington Heights Memorial Library will kick off the School District 25 month-long art show with an arts reception. The evening will feature more than 300 works of art from students at District 25 schools, kindergarten through eighth grade, and live music from the South Middle School Jazz Ensemble. Refreshments will be served. There will be a continuous screening of TRY YOUR BEST in the technology room off the Marketplace area. |
ScreenTest Jr.
Our Fugleflick Filmmakers' movie, Try Your Best was accepted into the 2018 Screen Test Film Fest Jr. Of the 5 movies screening, ours was the only one local. The other films were from Texas, Arizona, Canada, and Sweden. The hand drawn animation from an 8th grader in Arizona won best of show. See the list of films here.
Just returned from watching #TryYourBest on the big screen at @screen_test Where my #fugleflick filmmakers were celebrated for their amazing #growthmindset movie
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) April 21, 2018
Watch it here: https://t.co/zXcrf60bu1 #drydenrocks #d25itspersonal #STEAM #studentvoice #edtech @DoInkTweets pic.twitter.com/n46a6oznta
Loved how @screen_test had students discuss their movie-making process with the audience. Here are the #fugleflick filmmakers talking about loving #greenscreen FXs for storytelling: #greenscreenbookslowchat #STEAM #edtech #drydenrocks #tlap @doinktweets https://t.co/zXcrf60bu1 pic.twitter.com/2U2AcoBKw7
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) April 21, 2018
They also had a chance to explain the role that our storyboard played in making the #fugleflick #TryYourBest #drydenrocks #STEAM pic.twitter.com/DMn6EFOLEh
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) April 21, 2018
Love that they remembered to mention the audience they created the story for...All the students who need encouragement--> This is for you #TryYourBesthttps://t.co/zXcrf60bu1 pic.twitter.com/f9lrCiRc6X
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕️ (@fuglefun) April 21, 2018
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