Down the rabbit hole

Myself and Tristan had a lot of fun creating our movie project. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed creating it for you guys. I have also included the link to the original trailer we "sweded" and a few links to some of my favorite "sweded" trailers.

Our classes are primarily targeted at low to high beginner ESL students. The issue we saw with having students create their own scripts from scratch is the burden on the students might be too great.  We have both tried to get our students to create dialogues for role playing before and to be frank it went terribly. By having them parody a trailer, the script can be easily copied down. Then they can focus on the pronunciation, fluency and intonation. It will give them some extra time to put together some props and costumes as well. The main goal at Bucheon is to get the students speaking English as much as possible and we think the ease of which they can come up with a script will allow them to focus on delivering a good presentation.  

Here is the original trailer and our sample parody trailer:

Click HERE for the student handout, lesson explanation , storyboard template and rubric.

Here are a couple of my favorite Sweded trailers. The inspiration for our project.