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Digital Videography Menu

Objective: Become familiar with a wide variety of applications that can be utilized in the digital video editing process prior to shooting your own video. To be completed in the order listed, but you may download the KidsVid questions and write notes on the backside. (See Atomic Learning below.) You may also write on notebook paper and staple your notes to the worksheet.

1. Atomic Learning: Video storytelling guide. This is a great site the has a free section on video storytelling. Read the text and watch each video accompaniment to prepare you for your first video shoot. Prepare to describe each type of shot by taking brief notes on a sheet of paper or the backside of your worksheet. If the videos take too long to load, see me for a copy of a CD containing all of the videos.
2. Online Video Tutorial: Navigate through the entire Kidsvid website including scripting, making video, editing, showtime and all the subtopics within these categories. Be sure to check out the VidShare section to watch samples of student work. (Movies may take too long to load- if so, check out a cd from me containing all the movies.) Complete the accompanying worksheet as you navigate through this site. (Click here to download Word Document: KidsVid Questions.) Click here to link to the web site mentioned in #13 on the worksheet. (Links on protected docs. don't work.)
3. Create a video critique and scoring checklist that can be used for our own documentaries & infomercial. Your scoring sheet should reflect all the essential components for shooting quality video. You'll learn about video editing techniques later, but this scoring sheet should be for the raw footage only, prior to post-production. Total points available should be 25. Use this site as a resource for creating your scoring guide. Here's another site: http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/videorubric.html although it may be a bit overwhelming- yours should be much more simplistic and straightforward.
4. Photo Contest: Submit one of your photographs to one of the contest sites listed below.

• Photo Elements: Complete 8 different Recipe tutorials/project in Photoshop Elements. Tutorials can be found in:
  • the "How To" section within Photoshop. Save as .JPG files in a new sub folder you create in folder on the server. (Click here to view PDF document)
  • On the server in the Photoshop tutorials folder within "Media".
  • At the Adobe Digital Kids Club web site.
  • Photoshop Project Book available in class.
• iMovie Practice: We'll do this together as a class. Prepare by installing the video footage into a new folder you create titled "MMB intro" in the "movie folder" on the hard drive. ( Computer hard drive/users/madronamedia/Movies/ )

Complete as many of the following activities as possible.

• iTunes: Import 1 song from a traditional music cd (non-mp3 format). Convert it to mp3 and add it to the iTunes Library. Turn on the visuals and watch! (To make it worth your while, choose music you may add to your future video project, "Featured Center for the MMB".)
• iPhoto: Import 4 digital photos into photo. Use your photos from camp or the photo tutorial assignment. Learn how create a new album, edit photos, (reduce red-eye, rotate images) add music to slide shows (see iTunes above) and print an album.
• Image Tricks : Image Tricks is a program for image editing by applying different effects to them. Set of Core Image filters is used as the main tool. Another purpose of the application is generating images. It uses various math engines to create unique pictures.
• GarageBand: GarageBand is a Mac OS X application that can compose songs using loops, record live performers through mics, or plugged in guitars & keyboards, etc, Can you write a new intro for the MMB or create background music for your video?
• Morph X: Create a morph of a person or animal to share with the class. This program is very easy to use. Follow the on-screen instructions and the help menu to guide you through the process. You may also borrow the (small!) user's guide from me.
• Array: Create a begin,middle or end screen for your video project
• Comic Life: Explore the program for possibilities.