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The Five Minute Film Festival

 




 

 

 

 

 

The Five Minute Film Festival is an event that allows our students to demonstrate learning in a 21st century context and showcase their creative work to our school community.  

 

Event Theme: If I Was In My Favorite Story

Who: The Five-Minute Film Festival is open to all Tennyson Middle School students

When: May 17, 2024

 

How to Participate

To participate students will create a short film based on a chapter or scene from their favorite book.  Videos will be up to five minutes in length and can be individual or group projects.  

A panel of TMS + Waco ISD Celebrity judges will select the winners.  The top films will be showcased on the TMS Library website and screened on campus with a popcorn party in the Cafeteria on May 17, 2024.

 

The films will be judged on the following criteria:

 

  • Connection to the Book the film is based on

  • Storytelling

  • Creativity

 

Requirements for Content:

  • Films should be around 5 minutes in length, including credits.

  • Films must be school appropriate or they will be disqualified. 

  • Title pages and credits must be included but should be no longer than 1 minute of the film's entirety.

  • Filmmakers are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright and trademark owners for the use of sound or video clips as well as use of trademarked characters. Entries that include these elements without permission will be disqualified.

  • Filmmakers must obtain permission to use copyrighted music in their films. Filmmakers can also use their own original music or copyright-free, public domain, trade-friendly or Creative Commons licensed music.

Each film submission must also include a movie poster. While the films will not be judged on the poster, the posters from the films selected for the Festival will be displayed during the announcements and during the event. The poster should be in PDF format and can be created using Canva or other software. 

 

How Films will be Judged

Take a look at the Rubric 

 

Resources for Making Films

Access the Tools for Making Films that Sonoma County office of Education has generously shared with us.

Click here for resources for making films in your classroom from edutopia.

 

 

Submissions are DUE no later than May 13th. 

When you are finished with your film, Submit Your Film HERE:  https://forms.gle/smvte4ktkB9NuGbP9

 

 

The Tennyson Middle School Library would like to thank Matt O’Donnell  and the Sonoma County Office of Education for their generous support of the TMS Library’s First Five Minute Film Festival.  Their resources have made it possible for us to bring this activity to our students.