Frozen frames

  

Frozen frames, also known as tableaux or snapshots, consist in to freeze and action of literacy, film, tale, history etc. with their bodies, so students can the opportunity to study this action in a more deep way. They are a very interesting tool for children to learn new contents.

It is a way to improve the students’ vocabulary because when students are work in groups to create their own frozen frame, they have to speak in English and repeat the concepts which they are going to represent and the location vocabulary (after, before, between etc.)

 It seem to me a very interesting and creative way to children for understanding in a funny way vocabulary, concepts or topic and also is important that they are involve in the scene, so there are going to be a part of what they have to learn. Moreover help student with their social skills, body expression, to lose the shyness and of course passing good time learning.

The steps which we seen in classroom for creating your own frozen fame are the follows:

1-Think about a scene depicted in one popular fairy tale.

2-Find as many classmates as characters are needed to show the scene you have selected.

3-Choose an appropriate physical space to show your scene.

4-Look for props, costumes, objects, etc. which help to make the scene more real.

5-Rehearse in the physical space you have chosen, and be ready for the great day!

As we were talking in class, frozen frames, can also be used to learn concepts of history, social science and literature among others in which for example the students build a scene of a war and the rest of the student of the class have to make question to guess what war is.

Here I give you a web with more information of frozen frames with some examples of how to use them.

http://dramaresource.com/strategies/still-images-a-freeze-frames

Do you know other ways to use frozen frames?

Like a curiosity I want to show you another branch of frozen frame which are freeze frame shots. It is when one shot is printed in a single frame several times in order to create an interesting illusion of a still photograph. One of the best uses of this video effect is during a bar scene in the movie “The Other Guys.” Often times motion-capture cameras are needed to produce the effect.

I hope you like it!