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>Subject: Making Grimm Movies Press release
>
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>DAVENPORT FILMS    DELAPLANE, VIRGINIA  22025
>    TEL 703-592-3701    FAX 703-592-3717
>e-mail "tdavenport@aol.com
>
>Making Grimm Movies teaches the basics of creative movies making.  Free
>to schools during 1995-1996 school year.
>

SOUNDS GREAT!  How can I get them?  I teach media literacy and media arts
education at Martin Luther King High School (Davis,CA) and will soon be
teaching at Davis High School (Davis, CA) and W. E. Mitchell Middle School
(Folsom, CA).  I also teach youth at the local public access television
station--Davis Community Television--where I am the Production and Human
Resources Manager.  All groups that I work with are flat broke.  So you
offer of free creative teaching videos will go a long way.  Let me know by
E-mail just how to get these fabulous sounding media education segments.

Sincerely,

jesikah maria ross


>Making Grimm Movies  (MGM) is a three-part, 20 minute unit, media
>literacy series on movie making aimed at middle and high school students
>in the language arts curriculum.  The series is based on examples from
>Tom Davenport's popular folktale series From The Brothers Grimm.  The
>titles used as examples are ALA "Selected Films for Young Adults" and
>Parent's Choice Gold Seal award winners -- ideal for junior and senior
>high audiences.
>
>Inexpensive camcorders have created a new pool of young filmmakers
>across the country, but the unavailability of editing facilities and
>education tend to trap young people in linear ways of conceiving film.
>Films about  movie making have done little to address this dilemma;
>they tend to be either illustrated guides, like primitive Kodak manuals,
>or publicity films about the special effects and celebrity personalities
>of high budget features.  Making Grimm Movies, on the other hand, will
>speak to the inventive young movie maker with limited budget and
>unlimited creative energy.
>
>Making Grimm Movies shows young people how to use resources and
>locations in their own communities to produce inexpensive movies.  Using
>examples from the from the Brothers Grimm folktale films, members of the
>production staff tell how they translated tales into scripts and
>storyboards, worked with teams of actors and crew members, selected
>locations, and edited fragments into a coherent narrative.
>
>Making Grimm Movies not only shows students how to "read" media; it
>also inspires them to "write" it.  In the classroom, an English teacher
>might use the series as an inspiration for students to translate
>folktales into creative script writing.  The series encourages schools
>to offer production opportunities by highlighting the liberation from
>time and space available through increasingly affordable computer-based
>editing.  Making Grimm Movies fills an important gap in media education
>and lights the way for schools to finally take the plunge into media
>literacy as we move into the age of the information highway.  The 48
>page illustrated teacher guide includes material to help the
>inexperienced teacher enter this exciting but sometimes intimidating
>field.
>
>Program one covers writing, casting, and make-up.  Program two features
>set design, props, sound, and the "creation" of locations through
>juxtaposition of images.  Program three is about cinematography, editing,
>film acting, and directing.
>
>Each of the programs highlights problem solving and creative thinking
>using the "principles" of movie making.
>
>Making Grimm Movies is currently available as an ITV broadcast from many
>public television stations.  Public TV stations and schools are free to
>tape and distribute and duplicate the series at no charge from May 1994
>to September 1996.
>
>Making Grimm Movies is also for sale on video for $19 per program or
>$45 for the three program set.  The 48 page teacher guide is $5 with
>quantity discounts available.
>
>For further information, contact B. J. Flemming at Davenport Films.
>
>
>Tom Davenport
><tdavenport@aol.com>

jesikah maria ross
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Davis Community Television
Davis Community Network
jmross@wheel.ucdavis.edu