Teacher Interview Project Spring 2016

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 7- 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

Tuesday March 8- 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:

Wednesday March 9- Shooting Studio Interviews

Thursday March 10- Shooting studio interviews

Friday March 11- Studio Interview

Monday March 14- Studio interviews or begin editing

Tuesday March 15- 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: Tuesday-Wednesday March 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

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: Thursday April 7

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

Wednesday April 13 - FINAL DRAFT due to the server in DMT version

Rubric-

Questions for the Teacher- 50 points

Studio Production work- participation each day 50 points

Shot Sheet for B-roll-- 50 points

Rough Draft Peer Critique-- 50 points

Final edit due on time-- 100 points

TOTAL PROJECT 300 Points