Documentary

= __Room 1's Minibeast Documentary__ =

__**Wednesday 2nd December**__
The Documentary Premiere was last night and it was OUTSTANDING!! The children blew me away with their outstanding efforts - Thank you to Larry and Julie for making this a moment the children will NEVER forget. Everyone will get a copy of the DVD - here are a few photos from the premiere held last night at the Grant's Braes School Hall. ENJOY! Check us out on the News - [] - WOW!!!

__**Thursday 20th August**__
Today we were lucky enough to go to NHNZ and have a guided tour of the facilities, listened to Max tell us about his filming in Antarctica and watched his work, dressed in his arctic clothes and looked at his amazing camera worth $400,000. We also got to watch the premiere of Orangutan Island 2 before anyone else in NZ, Australia and Asia - VERY lucky!! We loved it and want to see more ..... We can't wait to get back and make our documentary and show everyone the fantastic work we have been doing. Here are some photos of our trip.



__**Term 2-3**__ During Term 2 Room 1 have been studying Minibeasts as their inquiry topic. We decided that we wanted to educate our community about minibeasts and share our learning with them. Our idea was to make a documentary ..... That was when we heard the calling of Julie and Larry our Director and Producer. They came in and started the process with us. We are going through an entire "professional" documentary making process which is very exciting - everything is being taken very seriously. We are going through 3 stages. Pre-Production, Production and Post Production. We have ended term 2 at the end of our Pre-Production phase - we have researched and written reports on different minibeasts and we are going to use our learning to add details into the documentary. Next we got into production teams and started planning our ideas - we got to choose 2 minibeasts and had to pitch our ideas to the "network executives" (Mr Kemp, Larry and Julie) in an official meeting. Our ideas have all been "green lighted" and we are looking forward to writing some script ideas down over the holidays so that we can write our scripts and get into filming (production phase) next term. Below are some photos of our process so far ..........