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Welcome to the Hershey Area Playhouse Theatre Academy Online Film Festival! For the protection of your children the videos below will be password protected after our open house. To access the videos after open house, the password will be HAP (case sensitive). To download your child's film, simply click on the name of the film to get to the Vimeo site. Under each film you should find a "download" button.

=Kindergarten - Third Grade=

Students in K-3 learned film set protocols and how to operate the camera, practiced basic shots and learned how to repeat a scene from a different camera angle so that these views can be edited together. They learned the roles on a film set including camera operator, talent and director. Next they formed small groups and created some simple story plots, which they captured on storyboards; showing the action and the particular shots and camera angles. In post production, they learned to input film clips into a video editing software, chose the style of title page, captions and credit frames for their films, and choose the music to underlay the movie. The teachers and teen helpers did the final editing, weaving the video clips together by following the instructions on the story boards.

**Late - created by Vivian age 6**
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Magic Bucket - created by Dylan age 6
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Pinkland - created by Katherine age 6
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Statues created by Dominic age 7
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=Fourth - Sixth Grades=

Students in 4-6 also learned film set protocols, including camera operation, basic shots and how to input film clips into a video editing software. This group also learned about creating a point of view. They learned the roles on a film set including camera operator, talent and director, then pitched an idea for a film to each other to create movie production groups. After improvisation to fine tune their stories, they combined ideas on storyboards, and then set to work designing their shots and adding details on camera angles. These group paired up as needed during the filming, so that one group could serve as director and tech crew for the other. In post production, they learned to input film clips into a video editing software, create transitions between two shots, add title and credits frames and choose music to lay under their videos, and edit the videos for final product ready to render into a video.

**Crash! created by Maddie, Nyla, Ella Y. (all age 10)**
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**and don't miss Crash! Out-takes and Bloopers**
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**Ring Around the Rosie, a short suspense film created by Ella S. starring Emily**
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**Will You Take Me? A comedy created by Abby age 10**
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**Shoelace, a brief comedy - created by Keaton, James and Emily (all ages 10, 12 and 11)**
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=Seventh - 12th Grade=

Students in grades 7-12 learned film set protocols including camera operation with some high quality digital video cameras. They explored the work of other student filmmakers and studied the way in which film makers tell a story without sound. They explored interesting camera angles and identified ways to use the camera to direct the audience's attention. Their challenge was to visually tell a story in under two minutes. Each student came up with a concept and pitched the story to the entire group, then groups self selected the stories they wanted to film and collaborated on a final product.

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 * The Box - a suspense movie with a twist - created by Emily, Eva and Katie - grades 7 & 8 **
 * Dancer - a drama - created by Coryn, JoJo and Tehya grades 8, 9 and 8 **

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 * The Chase - an action film - created by Mason and Andre - grade 7 **

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 * The Stairs - a suspense movie - created by Lindsay and Nathan grades 8 & 10 **

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 * Billy - a melodrama created for the Playhouse mascot with footage by Kyla, Josie and Katie and design inspiration by Andre and a little help from staff **

Video Slam
And finally... our Video Slam movie Momothon, a spoof of reality TV shows created on the spot at our open house by a group of mixed age students. media type="custom" key="29193283"