Movie Making Day - Kids Intro to Brainstorming and Collaboration

I had 4 kids, my 8, 6, and another 9, and 7 together to do a Movie Making Day last weekend.

I had asked Claude to build a Worksheet - Write a Story (Hero, Goal, Problem), Scenes, Script, Editing, and we worked through it.

Kids had fun but it was a lot of work. There's a lot of skill involved in doing brainstorming - How do you express your idea (Wonderbear should be the hero), how do you advocate about it (He has lots of powers), how do compromise (both Wonderbear and Sasquatch Knight can work together). They also had to learn how to put your ideas without putting someone else's ideas down.

It felt like a mini United Nations.

Next was the scenes, filming, coming up with the script and editing. A lot of hands on experience with timing (Action!), bringing ideas in on the spot (blankets to hide the actors holding stuffies), camera angles. The kids didn't end up doing editing together, the older one did it end to end, we ran out of time.

Takeaway

• Brainstoming is a skill. Collaboration is a skill. Advocating, and compromise are skills. I'm grateful for my experience as manager, getting a chance to support people building these skills
• The best ideas happen during execution, not planning. I think managers are forgetting this. People say "Just ask Claude to..." not knowing that the people they are talking have a lot to bring to the mix
• Maybe Tech companies should hire Movie people to run team building events like this 🤣