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Media
Class
Video
Project: Classroom/Advisory Featured Video |
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Primary
Application: iMovie
Possible
Secondary Applications: iPhoto, iTunes, Photoshop, Powerpoint, QuickTime,
GarageBand
Objective:
Create a 2 minute video featuring selected center or middle that gives a enthusiastic
introduction to the center , the teachers and the students.
Description:
Create a two-three minute video about your assigned class that will be
aired on the MMB, included in the yearbook DVD and possibly compiled into an
"About Madrona" DVD to be used for monthly parent tours. You may shoot
a documentary, a music video, an info-merical, or a combination of these.
The idea is to create a video that showcases this class in an informative and
fun way. What will students want to see and be reminded of not only weeks or
months later when the segment is aired on the broadcast, but years later when
they dig into their box of mementos to retrieve their (DVD) yearbook.
How can your images, video clips, captions and text best capture the essence
of the class?
Suggestions/
Examples of Shots to Take and Information to include:
| Classroom
environment |
projects
on wall, attendance board, hall artwork, seating arrangements, etc. |
class
meetings, specialists, recess, routines, etc. |
equipment,
currrent events, |
|
All
Teachers |
Photos |
Interviews |
Areas
of study for the year |
|
Students |
Posed
class photo, all student 'groups' represented |
Student Interviews |
at recess, PE, library, music, parties,
presentations, etc. |
Resources
for information |
Bear
Facts
monthly newsletter |
Summit
Center
Ohana
Center
Paw
Sal Cha'l
Epicenter
Tri Center
Renaissance |
interviews |
Required Elements:
- Movie saved to users/madronamedia/movie folder
on local computer with the name of the center
- Appointment
prior to shooting video (Monica will communiate this via email)
- Lead/Title
screen that includes center/class/topic name & names of teachers
- Title over colored clip
- Title over video clip
- Title over static (still) photo
(This could be a frame of the video that is converted to still clip or
a digital photo or a JPEG that is created in Photoshop, Powerpoint, AppleWorks,
etc.
- End
Credits (yourself, those appearing in the movie, music credits, copyright
logo, date)
- Dialogue
(within video or narration using voice over)
- Music
- Simultaneous
audio tracks
- Transitions
- Still
and digital video clips (may use PowerPoint, AppleWorks, Photoshop, etc. to
create image.)
- Logical sequencing of
pictures and video
- Titles throughout,- sufficient
use of subtitles for student identification, activity clarification, etc.
- Titles
(text) to enhance transition from event to event.
- Quality
information- via spoken text, written text and/or visual imagery along with
pictures and video from a variety of venues (locations), during a various
events (class meeting, math, morning routine, art, parties, recess, science,
etc.)
- Stays
within time requirements
Tips:
(in class lesson)
- Shoot
more pictures and video! It's hard to gather ample footage and enough variety
in a one-hour shoot. Go back at different times during the day and follow
students to different venues.
- Ask
for photos from the classroom teacher that may have been taken earlier in
the year, on a field trip, etc.
- Make
appointments for interviews to gather more information. Use multiple sources
when gathering information-Teachers and several students. Take notes. - get
names of sources. Ask how to spell names. You will be writing copy for the
yearbook about this class and you can use the SAME information!
- USE
A TRIPOD whenever possible. USE A line-in MICROPHONE whenever possible. We
have shotgun mic in addition to two wireless mic systems and a voice recorder.
- Extract
audio or adjust levels when necessary.
- Limit
"Ken Burns" effect on still images.
- Use
effects only if it helps convey your message about the center. This would
also apply to reverse clip and speed adjustments.
- Don't
check "use Quicktime margins" when adding titles.
- Create
your own custom JPEGS to import as a still image.
- Create
still clips from video if necessary. (Often useful when adding a transition/title
to a clip without a lead at beginning or end)
- OBEY
copyright law! You probably don't have time to obtain permission to utilize
copyright music, so use public domain music. Music should not be the focus
of this video anyway, it should serve only as a backdrop for the production.
- Make
text as large as possible. Use the "multiple"
feature on the title to make additional lines rather than squeezing all text
onto one line.
- ASK
if you are frustrated or wish the software could do something more. I may
be able to figure out a solution for you.
- Edit,
edit, edit! Don't include it just because it's on film. We want QUALITY over
QUANTITY!
- Remember
your audience... not only now but years from now... YOU HAVE AN IMPORTANT
JOB!
Due:
iMovie
format: mid February
Class Presentation: TBD
Resources:
http://www.apple.com/imovie/
http://www.apple.com/education/ilife/howto/
http://www.apple.com/education/ilife/howto/imovie_tips/
http://www.apple.com/education/ilifeawards/
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/imovie/
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000019/INTRODUCTION.html
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000019/RESOURCES.html