This past week, Maranatha’s Level 3 ASL students visited Pasadena Christian School. They have been working on their final unit of the year, “Story Telling.” ASL storytelling involves role shifting, using non-manual markers such as…
Flintridge Prep Literature Students Make Short Films Demonstrating Applied Practical Knowledge of Filmmaking Techniques
“After we learned a technique in class, we’d journal about how we might use it. Being able to draw from that process throughout the year helped as we were making the film,” shares Nico, a student in Dr. Tyke O’Brien’s senior honors English elective, The Language of Film: Cinema of California. While many literature classes deal in analyzing techniques like synecdoche and meter, this course discusses diegetic sound and mise-en-scène to analyze the inextricable relationship between Los Angeles and the movies. In lieu of a standard written final paper, the students wrote, produced, directed, and edited their own short films…
