Telecom- New Media Production Lake Forest High School
Assignment: Have a teacher explain what they are passionate about, what they enjoy about their job or what they do every day that is unique. You will interview them in the studio and shoot b-roll to explain their thoughts and ideas for our website as well as around the school.
Due: 5-10 minute studio interview that will be edited down with b-roll, pictures and music to tell a 2-4 minute story.
Goal: To work with a partner, or by yourself, to find a good story that you can cultivate and share with our school community. You will learn and follow the production process for studio interviews while building on the experience gained so far with the editing project. You will also learn how to shoot b-roll properly, as a group as well as individually.
Pre- Production Process:
Tuesday February 28- Introduce project, create groups, hear the TA's wisdom from their projects, select possible teachers for pre-interview on Wednesday, figure out the three topics you would like to talk about, watch examples from last semester's projects
http://lfhstele.com/index.php?page=viewnews&id=10
Wednesday February 29- Conduct pre-interviews with teachers (going over 3 themes and getting a date set), work on 15 questions based on the 3 themes you agreed to talk about and email them the final questions
Thursday March 1- Finalize questions and select who is going to interview
Production Process:
Monday March 5- Shooting Studio Interviews
Tuesday March 6- Shooting studio interviews
Wednesday March 7- Late Start- Shooting studio interviews
Thursday March 10- make up day for Studio interviews or begin editing
Friday March 11- begin editing
Studio Interview Project Process and Rubric:
1. Copy Video from the VS1- Telecom Video- to the Desktop-Your Name Teacher Interview Project.
2. Create a New Event in Final Cut with your Name and Teacher Name and then a New Project with the same= (Interview with Jack Douglass Steve Douglass).
3. File-Import the video from the desktop-
4. Watch through your interview in the Viewer to see what you have to keep and cut out- remember you want this to be tight and interesting.
6. Select the In point [ I ] and Out point [ O ] of the different questions that you would like to keep and drag them down to the timeline.
7. Organize your clips on the timeline to tell your story. Remember DO not to include the question so the story flows more naturally.
8. Trim your clips to make sure the ideas flow- this is hard to do well, so take your time and ask for your partner’s help to make sure things work.
Rough Cut Critique: 25 points – Thursday-Friday March 15-16
9. Copy the text box below to your Google Site Digital Portfolio to create a Shot Sheet: 25 points – insert this below your questions under the "Teacher Interview Project" page
Shot Sheet Example- SHOOT 3 TIMES AS MUCH
10. Capture B-roll, on your own CARD, then hit the IMPORT FROM CAMERA button and select the clips you want to use.
11. Place all of your b-roll ABOVE your interview- utilize the natural audio if it helps, but don’t let it confuse the interview audio.
13. Dissolve all of you B-roll with the Cross Dissolves in and out of your interview.
15. Create a LOWER THIRD title at the beginning with the Teacher's name and the end with your name on with the New Media logo.
Peer Critique: 25 points— Thursday March 22
16. Continue to add quality B-roll to make your story both Showing and Telling
17. Share your video to the Telecom Video-DMT Projects- Your Hour- Interview Project
Tuesday April 10- FINAL DRAFT due to the server in DMT version
Rubric-
Questions for the Teacher- 25 points
Studio Production work- 10pts. participation each day 50 points
Shot Sheet for B-roll-- 25 points
Rough Cut with Mr. Douglass-- 25 points
Rough Draft Peer Critique-- 25 points
Final edit due on time-- 100 points
TOTAL PROJECT 250 Points