Manaiakalani Film Festival Films

As previously mentioned, I enjoyed making films while I worked in the Manaiakalani cluster. In my time there I made and contributed to at least one film every year (except 2016). The record of them is below.

Contrasting my films to most of the other Manakalani films, you may notice that mine are more short film style rather than "learning videos", or what I call 'home video' style. In 2015, I had success in having students actually contribute to the development of the film, which was a learning experience for them. I thought this was a much more valuable experience for them compared to the teacher filming a PE session, or some other showcase of learning. You can see that style in my 2014 films, especially Along the Shore.

Later on, there was some feedback or a crackdown on certain types of film (films with violence?). Honestly, I can't remember what happened, but it made Ogilvie and me annoyed. That's when I started to put satire into my work.

Lastly, the 2021 book trailers were an idea from our principal. The idea was to have an easy idea that could be created anywhere in case of another lockdown. The LotR trailer was created by me alone due to the fact that we had run out of time and students due to Covid.

Film List

Tāmaki Primary School 

• 2014 
• Epic Rap Battle - Tagata o le Moana. Worked in tandem with Petra Lawrence.
• Along The Shore. Created this one in a very short time due to my work on the rap battle video not being recognised.

Panmure Bridge School

The playlist link for the PBS films is here.

• 2015
• Lost in Time
• 2016
• No movie. My fellow LS1 teacher Grant Ogilvie made the film this year. 
• 2017
• Bad Feeling
• 2018
• It's a Bit Dicey
• 2019
• How to Hold a Netbook
• How to Learn
• How to Cybersmart
• You're not you when you're hungry. Idea by Robyn Anderson. Filming, directing, and editing by me.
• 2020
• COVID
• 2021
• LotR Book trailer
• Fantastic Mr Fox Book trailer. The idea for this was a student's. I provided guidance and did the editing.
• 2022
• PokeBlade

While most of the movies were fun to make, I obviously have my favourites. My favourites are:

• PokeBlade. This wasn't submitted as the representative film for Panmure Bridge School at the Evening Showcase. However I had reports that during the day screenings, it was an audience (and adult supervisor) favourite.
• COVID. I really needed to satirise the situation.
• How to Hold a Netbook. Doing a "How to" series in the style of How to Dad was an inspiration by Ogilvie.
• It's a Bit Dicey. Can you tell that this is where my effort to satirise everything started? This movie combined kung fu movies integrated into our class's Inquiry topic and used blue screening and animation. This was all before I started using HitFilm as a film editor, so it was not easy.