To Kill a Mockingbird: Atticus Kills the Mad Dog

A few summers ago, my family made a movie.
It was an English project for my younger son, Dylan.
That summer, the kids had to read To Kill A Mockingbird and do some kind of project. There were many choices; one was to make a "video" of a scene in the book— but the student was required to be IN it, so that meant someone else needed to film it. I decided that if I was going to "film a video" I might as well make it an occasion to "make a movie".

So, Dylan wrote a screenplay from the scene in the book where Atticus shoots the mad dog. I made a director's script, a story board, got actors, costumes and props;
we rigged up a makeshift steadi- cam with a pipe and some iron weight discs, shot each scene from several angles— the whole shooting match.
The filming took place on a couple of mighty hot, bright days.
Hope you like it.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Mockingbird
• English
• project
• High
• School

[MrSamRMS]

were did they get that calpurnia????? shes a real slave!

[DeirdreB]

@MrSamRMS Really? Merry Christmas to you.

[momo2mac]

it was good! i like that scout was the one filming! good job! except whoever played jem wasn't the best actor!!

[pirategal456]

WOW! THAT WAS AMAZINGLY GOOD! Except the acting could've been better.

[varhanzboo]

G r e a t !

[freecountry1]

Really Good! Thumbs up

[gildelopez]

Mrs. Deirdre: Thank you. I loved your film.

[mtp234]

Must be a nice warm February day eh? :3

[AnimeFanCJ]

3:49 and the few following seconds after it are epic

[Rockstarz478]

I love this video! My bro had to do an English project on this and I played Calpurnia!

[coolboyhanseh]

nice acting

[Andapoke]

word by word goodness