C-SPAN STUDENT CAM PROJECT
THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE
WHAT’S THE ISSUE YOU MOST WANT CANDIDATES TO DISCUSS DURING THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN?
GUIDELINES
Your video should be at least 5-7 minutes long
You must include a narration of the key ideas
You must use at least one clip from C-SPAN
Photographs, videos, and interviews filmed by you should be included
Be sure to cite your sources
One or more students should narrate on camera (this can be done in a voiceover if you would rather not be filmed)
iMovie:
Must include use of green screen
Must include use of picture in picture
Must incorporate music
Must use voiceover
Must include Titles/Credits
Rubric
Total ____________
· Step One: Research
Find all the information—facts and opinions- you can on this issue.
Create a Graphic Organizer for your documentary (due 12/9/15)
Be sure to keep track of your sources for a bibliography
Questions to consider?
“What or who can I show, with the camera, that will communicate this information to the audience?”
Identify several positions on this issue.
· Step Two: Video Clips from CSPAN
DUE: December 21 (25 pts)
Find between 2-6 video clips (2 per team member)to use in your presentation. Download them into your CSPAN folder
Be sure to keep track of your sources for a bibliography.
Step Three : Photos, Documents
Due: December 21 (25pts)
Find 25-30 photographs and other documents (graphs, charts, infographs, timelines, etc.), (10 per team member)you will be able to use in your video. Save them into your CSPAN folder. Be sure to save them as jpeg’s.
Be sure to keep track of your sources for a bibliography.
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Step Four and Five : Find and Record your interviews
Due: January 4 (25pts)
There are no requirements for who should be interviewed. Students can use their classmates, teachers, and family as interview subjects. However, entrants are encouraged to consider interviewing experts on their chosen topic as well as local and national political leaders. You may be surprised by who is willing to sit down for an interview.
Shooting Video-There are some basic rules to follow when shooting your video footage. Consider lighting, framing, positioning, camera steadiness, sound, how many seconds you should hold a shot, etc. A note about interviewing—think carefully about the questions and answers, the preparation, position, location and appearance of the interviewee. Careful planning can lead to better video footage for your final product.
· Step Six: Create a Storyboard Outline of your Documentary
DUE: January 6 (25 points)
Before production, create a script outline, including storyboards illustrating specific shots, people to be interviewed, events to capture, situations to show, documents or still photos to include, quotations, C-SPAN videos to insert.
· Be sure any copyrighted material is used under “fair use” guidelines. *
· Step Seven : Classroom Filming ( January 4-8)
During the week of January 4-8 plan to complete all of your imovie video production work. This includes your greenscreen work, voiceovers, narration recordings, etc...
Step Eight: Editing (January 11-15)
All editing work on the documentary will be completed during the week of January 11-15. Editing is a critical phase of creating your video. Think of the editing process as similar to the writing process, and your video footage as the words you will use to tell your story. Let the story “tell itself” through the video. In what order will you arrange the story? How will it end? What two pieces work well together? What piece should be left out? You might want to look at all of your content then write out an “editing script” to lay out your scenes. You should also use storyboards to arrange your shots.
Step Nine: (Project due January 15)
Share video to Google Drive Completed Project folder for Class Grading. All projects are due for grading on the 15th. You may continue working on them after this for the CSPAN competition but the project will be graded based upon what is turned in on the 15th.
Final Project due January 15 - (100pts)
If you would like to submit your video to the CSPAN competition you may work on it on your own time until it is due on the 20th of January. See Mr. Mann for help with submissions
* Fair Use
The exclusive rights of the copyright owner are not unlimited. The copyright law establishes some limitations on these rights. One of the most important limitations on the exclusive rights is the doctrine of "Fair Use." The "Fair Use" doctrine allows limited copying of copyrighted works for educational and research purposes. The copyright law provides that reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" is not an infringement of copyright. The law lists the following factors, which courts must consider together in determining whether a particular use of a copyrighted work is a permitted "Fair Use," or is instead an infringement of the copyright:
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes: the noncommercial educational use is more likely to be a fair use;
the nature of the copyrighted work: the more factual and less creative the work, the more likely it will be fair use;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole: the more taken the less likely to be fair use; and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work: in other words, is the use taking away from the copyright owner money that the she might have been making from the work.