Festival Week 2002

In 2002 we made a video documenting Festival Week in June. It's now available to view online.

What the Victorians did for us...

On their visit to the Black Country Museum in October 2002, the Thirds had to make a documentary entitled "What the Victorians did for us".

Buddies!

One of the first Videos made back in 2000 when we got an iMac in school that could edit digital video. This was a Sunday afternoon creation, to be played as a trailer before the Boarders' big screen movie in the Ravenscroft Hall.

Olympic Slide Show

Last term, the Thirds and Juniors learned to use Microsoft Movie Maker, making slide shows about Skern Lodge. Here is a slide show made by DRN to celebrate the end of the 2008 Olympic Games. It was made using Final Cut Express, a semi-professional version of video-editing software, and closely related to Final Cut Pro, used by the BBC and many film editors to produce their work. DRN writes:

"The Olympics may be over, but there are plenty of performances of which the competitors can be proud. Continuing a tradition I started at Sydney 2000, when we at BG could of course celebrate the achievement of Katharine Merry winning Bronze, of making a slide show with the best images of the Olympic Games, here is this year's offering... "


Olympics 2008 Slide Show from rogbi200 on Vimeo.

And below, out of retirement for nostalgia's sake, is the Sydney 2000 slide show.

Sydney Olympic Games Slideshow from rogbi200 on Vimeo.

...and the Slide show from Athens 2004.

Athens Olympics 2004 Slide Show from rogbi200 on Vimeo.

These children have been using Wordle to make word pictures about the Olympics.