Documentary Movie Trailer

Tone, Message, Author's Choice...explore each in detail during this unexpected, creative, research-based writing project.

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Setting the mood, and selling the idea

Movie trailers are marketing magic. They are meant to share just enough of the exciting moments of a film to give the audience an idea of what the film is about, but not give away too much of the good stuff. How does a trailer producer make those decisions. In this project, students will explore that role in more depth.

The Assignment

This activity makes writing more purposeful and strategic. Students will not only create a trailer for a documentary, but they will also create a complete concept for the fictional documentary as well. This takes a decent amount of research on the topic they've chosen to document as well as planning, filming, and thoughtful production choices.

Project Overview

This overview will provide you a general summary of the lesson, a potential timeline, and the list of resources included with this overall product. So grab it and go!

Storyboarding 101

With storyboarding templates and some nuggets about scripting and shooting video for film, this packet will help students get organized.

Handouts + Resources

Implementing this project in your classroom is easy as we have created both printable and fillable pdf handouts for all parts of this project.

Writing an Argument

Although this may seem like a creative project, really its all about presenting an argument in support of the topic of the documentary. That is why we've included a few pages from our Tree of Reasoning resource to supplement this project.

Reflecting on Process and Product

Growth Mindset anyone? We believe honest reflection on both process and product are what make for the best growth during a project. That's why we've included reflection handouts that cover both!

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