To better understand how to better foster creativity in students, I visited the Warner Bros. Harry Potter Studio Tour. Storytelling in films takes a creative village. And through the tour, I witnessed the many creative minds that made the incredible wizarding world of Harry Potter come to life. As a teacher fostering creativity is essential because it helps develop many vital skills in children. The library can be a place where students can express thoughts and feelings, explore their inner world, develop greater self-awareness, and cope with stress. Additionally, creativity can be a career like those working on the Harry Potter films. To further demonstrate the importance of creativity within academics the Harry Potter Studio tour also partners with schools to teach students through their award-winning education program.
Harry Potter Studio Tour offers several classes including:
STEM: Students will discover the technical skills involved in bringing a film to life.
ART & DESIGN: Students have the opportunity to study the design processes and level of detail required to design and make props, costumes and sets in a film.
FILM & MEDIA: Using world famous costumes, carefully crafted props and intriguingly designed white card models, students will be taught the secrets of film making
Language Arts Lessons
PITCHING: Students will be encouraged to come up with their own original idea for a film and condense it into a pitch of 25 words or less, which would sell it to a film executive.
INSTRUCTIONAL WRITING: Students will get the chance to examine authentic artefacts from the film series before using these to devise their own game and instructions.
SCREENPLAY STORIES: Students will have the opportunity to study the key conventions of story writing and discover how writers use the written word to convey visual representations and narrative in a screenplay.
