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Teachers (and Students) Creating Original Video Content

Daily Class Schedule

 

We are all consumers of of video.  Television, movies, streaming video, YouTube, etc., are types of pervasive media we encounter throughout the day and night.  Most of us consume, few of us produce. 

As students, we developed communication skills in the area of writing, speaking and in some cases, listening.  We wrote stories, gave speeches, and (tried to) had discussions on timely topics.  Yet we did not learn how to put these skills together and communicate visually.  Studies indicate that the majority of our students (as well as ourselves) are not oral learners.  Approximately 65% of the population are visual learners. 

The purpose of this class is to become familiar with the skills and technology needed to effectively communicate through the medium of video.  And when age appropriate, allow your students to communicate in this manner as well.  With camera in hand we will develop and explore how to communicate with video.

Day 1:

Introductions

Video in Education:

        Introduction
        Review of Requirements and Resources
        Why Video? Group viewing of 21st Century Skills component
       

        Click on the above video to view discussion on Media Literacy


Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds

Click on the above link for reading sections which will be assigned for discussion regarding the study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.  The study found that students in grades 3-12 spend an average of six hours and twenty-one minutes engaged in some type of media daily. Include multitasking and the figure jumps to about eight and a half hours including nearly four hours of TV viewing and forty-nine minutes of video game play. Comparatively, homework gets slightly less than fifty minutes of attention. We will discuss the findings during the week.
 

For further reading.
Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds (updated study)

This is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people’s media use.  The report is based on a survey conducted between October 2008 and May 2009 among a nationally representative sample of 2,002 3rd-12th grade students ages 8-18, including a self-selected subsample of 702 respondents who completed seven-day media use diaries, which were used to calculate multitasking proportions.

View:  Tips 4 Using Video 4 Class

 

 

Class Reading: Page 10 of AFI Screen Education 21st Century Educator's Handbook
Handbook in .pdf format can be downloaded here.

(The following series is viewed at Discovery Streaming)

Step 1: View The Door Scene: Opening the Door (AFI video)

 

            Development of The Door Scene (small groups) -  20 minutes
            Handout: The Door Scene - Step One  (page 17)


            View The Door Scene: Step One - Visual Storytelling  (AFI video 0:00-3:05)


  
          View and Discuss "Door" Scenes - 60 minutes
         
          View The Door Scene: Step One - Visual Storytelling  (AFI video 3:06-10:24, end)


Step 2: Storyboarding (pre-writing, writing)
            View The Door Scene: Step Two - Storyboarding The Scene (AFI video 0:00 - end)


           
            Handout: The Door Scene - Step 2 (pages 18-19)
            Handout: The Storyboard Guide
           

Step 3: Shoot Storyboards: Interpreting the Storyboard to Scene
            Handout: The Door Scene - Step 3(page 20)
            View The Door Scene: Step Three - Storyboard To Screen (AFI video 0:00-4:04)


           
            Shoot scenes from storyboard
            View group's videos
            View The Door Scene: Step Three - Storyboard To Screen (AFI video 4:05-end)
           

Day 2:

Step 4: Story Board & Video Revisions/Re-shooting
            Handout: The Door Scene - Step 4 (page 21)
            View The Door Scene: Step Four - ReShooting & Editing (AFI video 0:00-end)


           
            Introduce capturing video to editing software
            Introduce video editing software


Step 5: Create final version of The Door Scene in video editing software.
            Handout: The Door Scene - Step 5 (page 22)
            View The Door Scene: Step Five - The Final Cut (AFI video 0:00-end)


           
            Presentation of final cuts to the class.


Day 3:

Using the 5-Step Process to Create Content-based Video Projects

Step 1:    Script Development
                The Treatment: (page 28) written summary of your film story
                The Pitch: (page 29) verbal presentation (1-2 minutes) to "sell" your story idea to the studio producers (other class members)
                View The Pitch AFI's Lights, Camera, Education! (AFI video 0:00-end)




Step 2:    Screenwriting and Storyboarding
                Screenwriting (p. 29) write a screenplay (example will be handed out) detailing all dialogue, stage directions, music, etc.
                The Storyboard (p. 30) a visual script created by a series of pictures that conveys the essential shots of a scene.


Step 3:    Filming
                Crew Roles & Responsibilities (page 34) generate/distribute a "call sheet" detailing each crew member's job
                Shooting from the Storyboards (page 35) film the shots based on the storyboard


Step 4:    Editing
                The Assembly Edit (page 37) a rough cut of your film without transitions, effects, music, titles
                The Final Edit (page 38)


Step 5:    Exhibit/Review/Reflect
                Reviewing the Films (page 40) after viewing/discussing actual movie reviews, write a review of each group's film


Day 4:

                Review & discussion of reading assignments.
                Become a registered user of the American Film Institute Screen Education Center and browse the various sections
                on the site.
                Continue with previous day's activities
       
                Enrichment Activity:  Download trial/freeware versions of video editing software so you can choose which might work in your classroom.
                All are available with online tutorials/help manuals.
                        Adobe Premiere Elements 8  30 day trial

                        Pinnacle Studio  14 day trial
                        WAX  Freeware
                        Zwei-Stien  Freeware
                       


Day 5:
            "
In the can"

                Continuation of previous day's activities
                Presentation of videos
                Posting online
 

SYLLABUS

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Digital Video in the Classroom

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Email Instructor: jambrosia.edschools@yahoo.com