The Story Beyond the Still

This is an inspirational project in which film makers collaborate to produce a story. Each one starts with a still image and continues from the still at the end of the next chapter. See the video below for details.



Lots of possibilities here for collaborative writing by students (or even filmmaking).

Give them the first still from which they brainstorm questions they want answered - watch 1st vid.


Look at next still. 

Students could then write what they want to happen next. Watch 2nd vid, and so on.

On the site there are various entries that were put forward for each chapter and students could vote for the one they like best. See the entries here

http://vimeo.com/groups/beyondthestill

Here are the other stills from the winning entries.

The whole film with all eight chapters runs to about 50 minutes, so this could be spread over several lessons with one chapter per lesson. Then, watch the whole film for a review.