Lake Forest High School New Media
Assignment: Have an available 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: 5-12 minute studio interview that will be edited down with b-roll, pictures and music to tell a 2-3 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.
Monday March 2- Introduce project, create groups, hear the TA's wisdom from their projects, select possible teachers for pre-interview on Wednesday, watch examples from last semester's projects
Wednesday March 4- figure out the three topics you would like to talk about, and 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:
Thursday March 5- Shooting Studio Interviews
Friday March 6- Shooting studio interviews
Monday March 9- Studio interviews or begin editing
Tuesday March 10- begin editing
Studio Interview Project Process and Rubric:
1. Find Video from the: Video$- Studio Interviews-
2. Create a New Library 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: Thursday-Friday March 17-18
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.
Peer Critique:
Add Chroma Key and white background behind the teacher by following this how to video:
14. 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.
Add music
16. Continue to add quality B-roll to make your story both Showing and Telling
17. Share your video to the Video-DMT Projects- Your Hour- Interview Project
Thursday April 16 - 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