Teacher Interview Spring 2018
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 DMT and shoot b-roll to explain their thoughts and ideas for our website as well as around the school.
Due: 5-12 minute live to tape 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 first project. You will also learn how to shoot b-roll with a larger camera, as a group as well as individually.
Wednesday/Thursday March 7/8- Introduce project, create groups, hear the TA's wisdom from their projects, select possible teachers for pre-interview on Tuesday, watch examples from previous projects
1. Watch through these four examples and for each video predict TWO questions that were
asked to create the responses that you heard in the videos.
Tuesday March 13- 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:
Friday March 16- shooting Interviews
Monday March 19- Shooting Interviews
Tuesday March 20- finish up Interviews
Studio Interview Project Process and Rubric:
1. Find Video from the: Video$- Studio Interviews-
2. Create a New Library Event in Final Cut with your Name and Teacher Name and then a New Project with the same= (Interview with Jack Douglass Steve Douglass).
3. File-Import the video from the desktop- or drag and drop
Rough Cut Critique: Wednesday-Thursday April 11-12
10. Capture B-roll, on your own CARD, then hit the IMPORT FROM CAMERA button and select the clips you want to use.
11. Place all of your b-roll ABOVE your interview- utilize the natural audio if it helps, but don’t let it confuse the interview audio.
Peer Critique: Wednesday/Thursday April 18-19
Copy the text box below to your Google Site Digital Portfolio to create a Shot Sheet: 25 points – insert this below your questions under the "Teacher Interview Project" page
Add music
16. Continue to add quality B-roll to make your story both Showing and Telling
Add Final Credit with your name on it
17. Share your video to the Video$- Final Projects- Your Hour- Interview Project