Studio Teacher Interview Fall 2012

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 smartphone project. You will also learn how to shoot b-roll with a larger camera, as a group as well as individually.

Pre- Production Process:

Tuesday October 9- Introduce project, create groups, hear the TA's wisdom from their projects, select possible teachers

for pre-interview on Thursday, figure out the three topics you would like to talk about,

Wednesday October 10- watch examples from previous projects http://lfhstele.com/index.php?page=viewnews&id=10

Thursday October 11- 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 by the end of the hour

Friday October 12- Finalize questions and select who is going to interview, Watch previous projects in the DMT

Production Process:

Monday October 15- Shooting Studio Interviews

Tuesday October 16- Shooting studio interviews

Wednesday October 17- Late Start- Shooting studio interviews

Thursday October 18- make up day for Studio interviews or begin editing

Friday October 19- 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. Drag your interview to the Timeline. Make sure your Audio is around -6db and make adjustments right away if it's not.

6. Use the RAZOR BLADE to Cut the video down- remember you want this to be tight and interesting- between 2-4 minutes.

7. Re-arrange your clips on the timeline to tell your story. Remember DO NOT include the question so the story flows more naturally.

8. Trim your AUDIO to make sure the ideas flow- this is hard to do well, so take your time and ask for your partner and TA's help to make sure things sound good.

Rough Cut Critique: 25 points – Thursday-Friday October 29-30

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

Check out these examples of a 90% b-rolled interview. How do creative angles and perspectives help tell the story?

10. Capture B-roll, on your own CARD, then hit the CAMERA icon on the left side 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 and credits on with the New Media logo.

Peer Critique: 25 points— TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6

16. Continue to add quality B-roll to make your story both Showing and Telling

How to video: dissolves, titles and music

17. Share your video to the Telecom Video-DMT Projects- Your Hour- Interview Project

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Wednesday November 14- FINAL DRAFT due to the server in DMT version at the END OF THE DAY

Rubric-

Questions for the Teacher- 50 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 300 Points