Stressing Over Health: Student Movie Suggestions & Examples

After students completed their stress imovies, students offered some suggestions for making better imovies. Here are some of their tips:

What worked in the imovies:

Using many examples of stress and showing solutions

Showing how to “solve stress”

Creativity

Humor

Using titles, subtitles, words

Using techniques like “Dear Diary” and a narrator

Using a story as an example

Suitable music

Spending time on the editing

Paying attention to transitions

What didn’t work in the imovies:

Shaky camera

Can’t hear: low volume, not speaking clearly

Lack of planning

Here’s some of what they said:

“…the comedy scenes caught my interest”

“…giving a lot of good examples and solutions to solve these problems”

“Something that caught my interest was that almost all the videos that showed the solution”

“good video... had the effects of stress and it was humorous. They had subtitles which was a very smart idea. They show not only what cause stress but how to get rid of it.”

“…realistic reason why someone might be stressed, what not to do and what you should do, it was very clear and concise. I thought that the editing was very good, I especially liked how they used a journal showing how the character felt inside. What caught my interest was when they used teachers in our school to act and it worked to get my attention because teachers are whom students listen to.

“They used different filming techniques to make the video more interesting. They had bloopers at the end, which was very smart because it added humor to the whole movie; it really caught my interest.”

“We could have added some music or background sounds to the video that could’ve made it a little more interesting.”

“I also believe that adding the songs at the right places made the video more appealing and less awkward.”

“I think we planned the video pretty well, we planned exactly what to do and how to do it. The filming was average, not really shaky but sometimes we zoomed in too close on the person’s face. We did not really edit the videos (no cutting parts) but we inserted writing in between the clips.”

“I thought on a scale from 1 to 10 our video was a 7 because our filming was great and the plot, we answered and contained all that we needed in our movie from the rubric. The only thing that wasn’t so good was the editing and transitions.”