PROCESS: Studio Teacher Interview Steps

Studio Interview Project Process and Rubric:

1. Copy Video from the VS1- Telecom Video-Import Capture-Your Name folder to the Desktop-Your Name Teacher Interview Project.

2. Create a New Project in Final Cut saved to your Desktop- Your Name Teacher Interview Project named Interview with Jack Douglass Steve Douglass 3.16.10.

3. File-Import the video from the desktop-

4. Right Click on the video file, go down to Item Properties- Format… click right below NTSC and check marks should appear next to Anamorphic- this will make your video look like the 16x9 format

5. 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 [ ( ] and Out point [ ) ] 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 try 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 March 25

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 tape, into a NEW Final Cut project at the Capture stations and save it on the Telecom Video-Import Capture-Your folder. Then copy JUST the MOV files to your desktop- Your folder and then Import them into your Interview project.

11. Place all of your b-roll on Video 2, 3 or 4- 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.

14. When you have your interview Final, EXPORT your project to SOUNDTRACK to take out any buzz in the background and add a complementary audio tracks. Then go to Export (make sure it's an AIFF file) and name it yourname-audio back to FCP.

15. Create a title at the end of your interview that matches the feel of your project.

Peer Critique: 25 points— Tuesday April 13

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

17. Export your video to the Telecom Video-Final Projects- Your Hour- Interview Project

18. Burn your project in iDVD by following the steps in the How to: video.

Final Project Due to the server and DVD by the end of class period Tuesday April 20.