Teaching Filmmaking Empowering Students Through Visual Storytelling

Dr. Limoncelli sets out to design a summer filmmakers workshop for high school students. She constructs the curriculum with the idea that learning to make their own visual stories will help students with their critical and creative thinking skills as well as creating a process that would help them to develop a more positive self-image. This study tells the story of a filmmakers workshop, focusing on four of the students who took part in the class, from the point of view of their teacher/res...