Un voyage à la planète Mars (A Trip to Mars), Les jeux de l’Antiquité (The Games of Antiquity), Un safari photo en Tanzanie (A Tanzanian Photo Safari), Le labyrinthe des civilisations (The Labyrinth of Civilisations), La traversée du Canada en patins à roues alignées (Across Canada on Roller Blades), Sur le quai d’un moulin à bois au 19e siècle (A 19th Century Lumber Mill Wharf), La danse (Dance)… are a collection of adventures proposed to school children in a collection of 3 DVDs under Ontario's Daily Physical Activity in Elementary Schools program. Each DVD comprises 7 20-minute videos for students of each of the three divisions: primary (Grades 1-3), junior (Grades 4-6) and intermediate (Grades 7-8).

The videos are designed to help teachers to engage students in a 20-minute period of physical activity — right in the classroom if need be —, in accordance with the Ontario Ministry of Education’s new guidelines.

The youngsters themselves are the stars leading the exercises. Students were filmed in schools before green backdrops, and background settings illustrating the themes were filled in during editing.

Over 350 students participated in the filming, which took place in 9 schools over six days. Quite an experience for young people to play their roles in a production studio set up right in the school gym, with cameras, lighting system, chroma key backdrop and film crew! Studio work was just as extravagant — for the record, video editing required 3.9 terrabites of disk space.

Scenarios were developed by Pentafolio from ideas contributed by teachers from both participating school boards. Content was researched and information presented in the videos is factual so that teachers can integrate them into their curriculum.

Co-produced by the Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l’Est de l’Ontario and the Conseil des écoles catholiques de langue française du Centre-Est, the project was produced by Pentafolio Multimedia between May and September 2006.

Pentafolio has over twenty years’ experience filming in the classroom setting. Our competence in project management, for multimedia production at any scale, is reassuring to clients. Pentafolio’s strengths are its tremendous flexibility and its capacity for developing creative content for multiple platforms: video, the Web, interactive presentations, and print. We are a small teams offering huge results!