"Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all". Hans Christian Andersen

Last week I was substituting a class who had been learning a bit about Wallace and Gromit previously. Their teacher told me I could do whatever I wanted with them...so after some pondering I decided that we would make a storyboard for a music video.

I started the class by showing them a video clip from Youtube for a new Wallmart advert , after watching the storyboard we then watched the "real" clip of the advert (sorry about the poor quality). After atching the two versions we compared the differences and similiarities between the two.

After this, we focussed on some filming vocabulary, like "zoom", "close up" and so on. To highlight the meaning of the words, the students, using a camcorder, practised "doing" the filming of this specific vocab.

Once the students were ok using all the new words, I put them in groups of three. In their groups, they had to brainstorm ideas for a story - basic plot, characters, timeline and so on. When they had the plot outline ready, I then gave them big sheets of paper to draw the 6 most important scenes of their story as a storyboard, highlighting the camera movement and angles.

Following on from this, the students had to present their stories to the rest of the class, explain how the final version would look.

For homework, each group had to decide on and agree to a song that would appropriately fit their story.

The final (and most fun) part came next. Each group had to make a powerpoint animated music video to match their storyboard and add the song to the background!

Try it out - not only is it really fun but also it raises imaginations and gives way to multiple intelligences in your class :)