Resources for Young Filmmakers

Resources for Young Filmmakers

For an upcoming Movie Night, instead of popping in a DVD or watching an instant flick on Netflix, you might enjoy a motion picture your child has filmed!

If any of your kids show an interest in making movies then below are some helpful websites that contain a multitude of resources for future Oscar winners.

Please note: Brave Writer does not necessarily endorse
all of the websites’ views or associations.

If you have younger kids who aren’t quite ready for breakable equipment: Low Tech Cardboard TV project!

For inspiration, here’s an under two minutes film by G (a homeschooled teen) called, “A Short Snow Drama.” Be sure to watch till the end! And read more about how the movie was made on the blog, Almost Unschoolers.

Also, check out Brave Writer’s Movie Discussion Club. Perfect for budding cinephiles!

Need help commenting meaningfully on plot, characterization, make-up and costumes, acting, setting and even film editing? Check out our eleven page guide, Brave Writer Goes to the Movies. Also, tell us about a film you and your kids watched together (along with a pic if you have one) and if we share it on the blog you’ll receive a free copy!

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Poetry Teatime: Pleasant atmosphere

Poetry Teatime

Brave Writer mom, Jennifer, writes:

Hey Julie!

Just a quick note to say thanks. An old email of yours showed up in a search I was doing this morning and I remembered all the fab times my daughter and I had at Tea Time and writing outside and reading poems at breakfast…

You inspired a very pleasant atmosphere in our life.

Marianna is now off at college, an Arabic major with the Air Force ROTC. I still keep my own book of poems I’ve read and loved and copied down, as well as my own writings.

You made an impact in both our lives.

Thank you!
Jennifer

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The Brave Writer blog is 10 years old!

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We have all kinds of reasons to throw confetti and toss balloons this month!

Not only is Brave Writer celebrating our 15th Anniversary (with a 15% OFF discount on products) but the Brave Writer blog, A Brave Writer’s Life in Brief, is 10 years old!

To commemorate a decade of inspirational and educational posts, we’re going to start sharing past entries every so often.

And here’s the very first post that was published on January 4, 2005!

“Together, we can generate energy and enthusiasm for Brave Living,
not just brave writing.”

Enjoy!

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Vehicle or destination?

The kids and the jeep

Don’t confuse the educational vehicle with the academic destination. In other words, it is less important whether you unschool or classically educate—neither of these is inherently superior to the other. They are vehicles that get you to the end goal on the map—an educated, self-reliant adult.

If you become overly enamored with the sleek lines of the Jaguar when you really need an off-road Suzuki Samurai to get to where you’re going, you’ll be enormously frustrated as it gets all banged up and scratched.

Figure out where you want to go first (perhaps even just a trailhead with lots of options spinning from it). Then pick a vehicle (or vehicles!) that get you there. There are no moral absolutes about how, only that you make progress toward the destination in a way that doesn’t damage your child, damage your relationship to the child, or that doesn’t prevent your child from getting where he or she wants to go.

Sometimes we are so attached to “the ride,” we disqualify perfectly good educational vehicles because of pride, a quest for ideological purity, or a vague sense that “this is how I wished I had learned” rather than focusing on what our specific child needs in this specific situation with these goals!

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A Gracious Space: Winter is now available!

Gracious Space WinterThese daily readings are designed to support you in your homeschool journey. If you are in that mid-year slump or in need of fresh inspiration to keep going, this could be the ideal daily reading for you.

Each of the 50 essays can be read in a few minutes. They include a “sustaining thought” to take with you, to help you focus on one key idea per day.

More than curriculum or a homeschool “how-to” book, this volume offers you perspectives that will help you establish rhyme and rhythm in your homeschool–a pace and style all your own, as you create a gracious space for learning and living.

 

This book of daily readings comes in three formats: PDF, iBooks, and Kindle. A print version will be available by the end of January.

Use our January Anniversary Thank You code for 15% off: HAPPY15

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