Studio Teacher Interview Project Spring 2013

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 green screen 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:

Thursday February 28- Introduce project, create groups, hear the TA's wisdom from their projects, select possible teachers for pre-interview on Friday, figure out the three topics you would like to talk about, watch examples from last semester's projects

Friday March 1- 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

Production Process:

Monday March 4- Shooting Studio Interviews

Tuesday March 5- Shooting studio interviews

Wednesday March 6- Late Start- Shooting studio interviews

Thursday March 7- make up day for Studio interviews or begin editing

Friday March 8- begin editing

Studio Interview Project Process and Rubric:

1. Copy Video from the VS1- TelecomVideo$- 13-14-Studio Interviews-- 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- or drag and drop

4. Begin the multi-Clip process to sync all of your angles

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 14-15

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

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 21

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 9- 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