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 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 shooting and editing.
Pre- Production Process:
Thursday March 3- 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 4- 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
Monday March 7- Finalize questions/connection with your teacher, run through in the studio- lights, cameras and audio then practice shooting studio interviews
Production Process:
Tuesday March 8- shooting studio interviews
Wednesday March 9- Late Start- Shooting studio interviews
Thursday March 10- Shooting studio interviews
Friday March 11- make up day for shooting interviews
Studio Interview Project Process and Rubric:
1. Copy Video from the VS1- Telecom Video-Friday Interview 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 3.16.11.
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 – Wednesday March 23
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 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— Wednesday April 6
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
Post- Production Process:
March 14-18 cutting down interview to 2-4 minutes
Monday March 21- editing
Tuesday March 22- editing
Wednesday March 23-Rough Cut audio/story critique with Mr. Douglass
Thursday-Friday March 24-25 Create Shot Sheet of B-roll needed to shoot
Monday April 4- editing/Shoot B-roll
Tuesday April 5- editing
Wednesday April 6- Rough Draft Peer Critique in Google Sites
Thursday April 7- editing
Friday April 10 - editing
Monday April 12- editing
Tuesday April 13- 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