Film Making Class: A Timberdoodle Review

This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own.

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Until now, I’ve never tried to count how many years I have been working with Timberdoodle, writing reviews for products, trying out new books or curriculum or projects. A quick blog search reminds me our relationship started in 2016! (And goodness, what a fortunate friendship we have formed over the years.)

You can see a whole host of my reviews here and here and there and right here and at this link.

And all those years, this has never actually happened.

A review product that just doesn’t work out for us.

There have been some products that weren’t the best fit for a certain child or that we used for a shorter period of time than expected, but our overwhelming response to all of our Timberdoodle products has been positive and beneficial to our homeschool.

This summer we tried our hand at an all computer-based class called Intro to Filmmaking.

And the truth is – this actually ends up more like a teen break up letter. (Or text, whatever.)

It’s not you – it’s me.

Intro to Filmmaking is included in the Timberdoodle 7th grade full curriculum and it’s also available to purchase individually. It’s definitely still a course appropriate to high schoolers as well.

My goal was to use it for Mosely or Bergen.

I think it was a case of the wrong kid and too late in our schooling experience. It’s not so much that the course was too young. It’s more that my children were no longer interested in the topic – a topic they were in love with a few years ago. (Which led to many homemade movies and many comically edited home-produced films.) It’s as if I missed our window of opportunity.

Additionally, we had a little learning curve with some of the directions of an exclusively video-based course.

Again – very much not them, but us.

I think tackling it in the summer didn’t help the cause any either.

I still think the course is a good idea and a good fit – for a different situation or season or student.

Here’s what I was reminded of though:

We were given names and numbers to call to help us figure out what would work better for us to be able to achieve success through this course. This same customer service and personal attentions not exclusive to us. It’s available to everyone.

Which showed me that Timberdoodle is accessible and concerned and they have a great working relationship with the folks and the companies behind their products. They are FOR your success in your homeschool.

When I emailed Timberdoodle about our experiences, instead of saying “Don’t write that review” they said something so much better. “Well, write about why it didn’t work out for you.”

I wanted this to be a project Bergen would take on independently and he just didn’t. I was tempted to be frustrated by this but I also know that sometimes certain topics or ideas are just not good fits. This summer I was not in the position to help wade through this with him effectively.

It just wasn’t our time to make this one work.

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