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Welcome to the Bilingual Story time Team! Please refer below to our team procedures and then complete the Audition. This will help the team leaders get to know you and better understand what tasks you are thinking of completing. After we review the auditions, we will contact you further with your tasks, please remember these. Please look at the team introduction and example video, and then through audio or video recording please answer the questions under the "Audition" section and send your audition to the email down below.
We are a student-run organization Cross Cultures and one of the sub-teams in the group, if you have not officially signed up to be added, please fill out the Cross Cultures Volunteer Info Form。
Introduction
Our Mission
We are hoping to help children learning Chinese or English expand their vocabulary through a fun and captivating experience by using classic children books. Our videos are done through video format, where audio and the image of the picture is added together, along with music, to simulate a virtual story time effect. We hope that our bilingual videos will be a useful resource to children eager to learn either language and we invite you to join us!
Procedures for Producing Videos
1. Recommend books, and write a 3-5 sentence introduction of the book that captures the main idea (click here);
2. Collect the book images (click here);
3. Translate the text in the book (click here);
4. Photoshop the translations onto the book image (click here);
5. 2 recorders will record either the Chinese or English version (click here);
6. Editor will put the Chinese version of the book along with the audio and the English version of the book along with the audio together (click here)。
*If you have any further questions about any of the information above please "@" in the Bilingual Storytime group chat @Cindy Li or @Cindy Jia
Team Captain/Editor
Once all of the steps have been done above, the editor will be in charge of putting together the videos, therefore if you are thinking of being an editor you will have a great responsibility for the progression of our group. We will title every editor as a team captain, their responsibilities will include:
1) Contacting their teams' members and make sure they are up to date with their tasks. We hope that the teams are stable and rarely change members, but they are by no means permanent
2）Responsible for the tasks getting done on time
3）Every season, one or more videos should be produced, if you find that you can't meet these standards, you need to contact your group members as soon as possible to find new opportunities that they can finish on time
4）If you do not have any editing experience, but would still like to try it out, please refer to the videos under the Production Studio titled "Editing"
Outside English Reader Help
We hope that our Chinese and English reading reach a certain point of clarity and pronunciation, therefore, if you find yourself needing an English reader or Chinese reader, and you have a friend that would be willing to do it, please contact them.
Example Book
Readers: Emily Li & Kenny Wang;
Readers: Emily Li & Kenny Wang;
Editor: Timothy Wong
Editor: Timothy Wong
This is an excellent example that should be referred to before beginning a video:
Picking the Book: There aren't too many pages, every page doesn't have over 10 sentences; the pictures are clear and interesting; the introduction captured the audience's attention
Translations: It was conversational, felt more engaging with the audience; the the translations were covering the English text and there wasn't a shift in movement from the Chinese picture to the English picture.
Reading: The readers did a simple introduction to the book, which helped capture the audience's attention; the pronunciation is clear and accurate, and the tone matched with the context of the book
Editing: Both readers images were together along with the book to show more of a team effort. Both readers voice level were about the same volume; used the pan & zoom to stimulate movement with the text and also engage the reader; the transition between English and Chinese text did not have an abnormal shift and was smooth most of the way through; the music fit the mood and context of the story
Audition
After reading the above, which tasks are you willing to do?
Please answer the questions below through audio recording or video file format to help us know what tasks you are leaning towards
1) Your name, school, and graduation year?
2) Are you willing to be in charge of choosing which books to read? If so, please say the name of a book that you really like and describe why you like this book.
3) Are you interested in doing translations? If so, please indicate if you are translating from English to Chinese, vice versa, or both?
4) Are you willing to be the photoshopper that will past the Chinese text onto the English image? If so, what app are you going to use?
5) Are you interested in audio recording? If so, are you going to read English, Chinese, or both? Please use the language that you want to read in to answer this question and introduce us to your favorite book along with the author and why you like the book. If you feel like you can read in both languages, please use the other language to introduce us to another book.
6) Are you interested in editing? If so, what app are you going to use? Are you going to participate until the end of high school graduation? Do you think you can produce at least 1 video every season? Are you willing to take the responsibility of team captain and lead a group of people to finish the tasks and videos?
Once you are finished please email to bilingualstorytime.cc@gmail.com
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