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July, 2023
July, 2023
Texas IB Schools
Texas IB Schools
IB CP Training, Cat. 2:
Personal & Professional Skills
IB CP Training, Cat. 2:
Personal & Professional Skills
Summary
An in-depth look at the IB mission and philosophy reflected in the CP as a programme of international education as well as the context of the PPS course in relation to the CP Core and CP as a whole. You will come away with different strategies for implementing the required components of PPS to suit the needs, backgrounds and career-related interests of students and have strategies to ensure PPS course planning is pedagogically underpinned, with supporting examples from a range of contexts. Additionally, you will develop a new understanding of PPS themes and the role of the course within the CP; share strategies that support successful delivery of PPS that reflect Diploma Programme (DP) and career-related components of the CP; and review, develop and share teaching and learning experiences that support effective implementation and assessment of PPS.
About Sara Sebesta-Camano
About Sara Sebesta-Camano
Sara Sebesta-Camano is our IB CP coordinator at WAIS, and has been since we first began pursuing the programme in 2013. On our campus, she has taught PPS, TOK, and history courses at the MYP, DP, and AP levels.
She holds multiple roles with the IB, including trainer and site visitor.
I couldn't find a YouTube video that gave an overview of PPS in a way I liked, but I thought this did a decent job of an overview of CP in general.
I'm working through this course as part of my study on the stylistic choices of Ang Lee's The Hulk 2003. I was originally going to choose a course that targeted someone a bit more advanced, but it's been about 10 years since I last used Premiere... Instead, I've worked with and taught students iMovie, Final Cut Pro, and Camtasia. While I remember the general layout of Premiere... that's about it. I thought Maxim Jago's Premiere Pro for Self-Taught Editors would be a middle ground, because I am self-taught in video editing, but after watching the first couple videos, its clear he was targeting self-taught editors who are currenty using Premiere Pro already. The content wasn't feeling very relevant, and I think thats because it's been too long since I've worked with Premiere at all.
A lot of courses on LinkedIn Learning for Premiere are 5 hours or more, even just for people getting started in Premiere. It doesn't seem necessary for that long of a series just to learn the basics. Ashley Kennedy's Learning Premiere Pro is under 2 hours, and that was a key feature in choosing it. I don't need something expansive, I edit videos several times a week, so I don't need an in-depth series, I just need enough to be able to use Premiere instead of Camtasia.
I am considering having a more significant focus on Premiere Pro in the Principles of Arts class. As such, looking at Ang Lee's Hulk, and experimenting with the concepts he used is just the vehicle to become more acquainted with Premiere and consider its place in my curriculum.
Here's an in-process screenshot of editing a making-of for the 2003 Hulk. I'm focusing mostly on the special effects and technical aspects of the film, as that's what most relates to the Principles of Arts class. This is a second edit of the video already, my HD is running a bit low on space, so I edited some of the recordings down already, exported and compressed them, and am now editing them further with other clips. Less than ideal, but that's ok for educational purposes.
Due to when Ang Lee's Hulk came out, a lot of home TVs were still using the old 4:3 aspect ratio. As such, a lot of the interviews are not widescreen. Some of these recordings are in full screen with bands on the sides, some are in widescreen, some are widescreen shrunk down to fit inside of a full-screen resolution. That's the next part I'm adjusting.
On the timeline here, you can see all the pink sections. Those are full screen sections that I've replaced the distracting green bands with black. I'm scaling up the wide screen sections to fit within the screen itself; so there will be no black bands around the wide screen sections. This was pretty easy to learn.
Every time I go through it, I find more things to adjust. I think this is the fourth major edit- the first three were mostly sequencing and re-sequencing, adding new clips in, adding additional B-roll, and removing clips that were repeated from different sources. There are still some chunks of B-roll that repeat, and they may or may not remain in the finished product. I'd prefer to remove them, but they aren't super high priority to me. The total length is about 30 minutes right now, and I'm finding a few segments to cut here and there to decrease the time and improve the flow.
I'm also noticing more issues with color and brightness. The quality from the different recordings varies a lot. Some of them are washed out and need significant bright and darkness adjustments. Others also have significant color issues. This was the next new thing for me to learn in Premiere, not hard but I feel like its made quite a bit easier by jumping between different workspaces. When I work in Photoshop or other tools, I typically just stick to one workspace. As such, I don't really like jumping between different workspaces. I'll probably get accustomed to it though as I continue working with Premiere.
An example of the color and brightness issues are the interviews with producer Larry Franco are a bit dark, and extremely warm. You can see the original on the left, and the color adjustments on the right.
The finished amalgam of various behind the scenes ended up being 27:40 in length. I still would like it to be shorter, but at this point, I'm not sure what else to chop out. I think this will be the length it will remain at, for the time being anyway. Sound mixing could be better, but that's also tricky to do when I'm smashing together clips that already have sound and music and everything else already mixed in.
See the end result on part 2 of my Ang Lee's Hulk Study.
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