Today I worked with a small group of students to train them in the use of green screening. Green screening is a technique that is used to composite two images. The most well known use of this is weather presenters on TV. They present in front of a green screen and the map image is then added via digital manipulation. It can also be called chroma keying……where one of the colours is made transparent and then another image or movie inserted in to replace it.
Curriculum applications involve history – when students can place themselves into a period of history and enliven their writing through dressing up and imagining what it might be like to be that person in that period of history. Year 4 studies early Australian History this year and so these students are becoming the year level experts so that others can be taught to use this technique.
The students had a lot of fun…..and enjoyed being both the subject and the director/s.
Nicola