Production
In this unit you will be considering language and media through making the media yourselves. You will have the option of picking from 5 different video projects to choose from.
For whichever project you choose you will 3 blog entries:
Why did you choose the type of production from the list below? How and why did you choose the media you used for your production? What has been difficult so far? What role have you taken on in your group? What do you think will be difficult in for the next steps? How will you address those difficulties? What do you look forward to?
2. After class 7 you will write a second reflection on how you feel about your finished blog. (200-300 words)
Post Process Reflection Material: what did you use to create your video? Why? How? Review? Infrastructure: Design of your group/ schedule/ updates/ communication How? Why? For the Future? Message to the viewer.
3. After looking at you survey results you will write an analysis with your group. (150+ words)
After you get feedback from your audience analyze you survey results and comment on the results
Schedule:
1&2 classes
Watch and decide group, Blog about your decisions.
3&4 classes
script and story board
**Mid process reflection
Write a reflective blog about how the process is going.
Why did you choose the type of production from the list below? How and why did you choose the media you used for your production? What has been difficult so far? What role have you taken on in your group? What do you think will be difficult in for the next steps? How will you address those difficulties? What do you look forward to?
4-7 classes
shoot and edit
**Post Process Reflection Material: what did you use to create your video? Why? How? Review? Infrastructure: Design of your group/ schedule/ updates/ communication How? Why? For the Future? Message to the viewer.
8 class
Upload media and create survey
Class 9
Watch and respond to media
Class 10
Analyze your survey results
**After you get feedback from your audience analyze you survey results and comment on the results
For whichever project you choose you will 3 blog entries:
- After 4 classes you will write a reflection on your choices, preparation, planning and anticipated outcomes. (200-300 words)
Why did you choose the type of production from the list below? How and why did you choose the media you used for your production? What has been difficult so far? What role have you taken on in your group? What do you think will be difficult in for the next steps? How will you address those difficulties? What do you look forward to?
2. After class 7 you will write a second reflection on how you feel about your finished blog. (200-300 words)
Post Process Reflection Material: what did you use to create your video? Why? How? Review? Infrastructure: Design of your group/ schedule/ updates/ communication How? Why? For the Future? Message to the viewer.
3. After looking at you survey results you will write an analysis with your group. (150+ words)
After you get feedback from your audience analyze you survey results and comment on the results
Schedule:
1&2 classes
Watch and decide group, Blog about your decisions.
3&4 classes
script and story board
**Mid process reflection
Write a reflective blog about how the process is going.
Why did you choose the type of production from the list below? How and why did you choose the media you used for your production? What has been difficult so far? What role have you taken on in your group? What do you think will be difficult in for the next steps? How will you address those difficulties? What do you look forward to?
4-7 classes
shoot and edit
**Post Process Reflection Material: what did you use to create your video? Why? How? Review? Infrastructure: Design of your group/ schedule/ updates/ communication How? Why? For the Future? Message to the viewer.
8 class
Upload media and create survey
Class 9
Watch and respond to media
Class 10
Analyze your survey results
**After you get feedback from your audience analyze you survey results and comment on the results
1) Adapted Picture Book:
At this point you have all chosen your animations and have begun planning your sequence of picture book pages, which is great! As you continue with choosing and organizing the images you will use on each page, please bear in mind that the book should be much more than a series of screen shots from the animated video. You and your partner(s) should carefully consider the story that you want to tell and then do your best to creatively design each of the pages to tell your story in the most effective and powerful way possible. This requires you to think in critical, analytical ways about the important similarities and differences between animations and picture books and decide how to combine and transform the resources you have in order for your audience to receive the best imaginable effect. There is no single correct way or universal formula for doing this; you must know and understand your communicative purpose and use your ingenuity to achieve it! I am confident that you will all get great results and learn a lot in the process! Please just keep an open mind and actively experiment. At the start of our next class, I will introduce a few more useful iPad apps for photo editing and (re)designing your pages.
Written Reflection: Each of you will write a written reflection on the process of adapting your animation into a picture book. Your reflection will be divided into two parts:1. A detailed description of the process of creating your picture book adaptation (250-350 words)
Please include
2. A discussion of what you realized or learned about media, mediation, language and English in general over the course of producing your adaptation (150-250 words)
Think and write about
At this point you have all chosen your animations and have begun planning your sequence of picture book pages, which is great! As you continue with choosing and organizing the images you will use on each page, please bear in mind that the book should be much more than a series of screen shots from the animated video. You and your partner(s) should carefully consider the story that you want to tell and then do your best to creatively design each of the pages to tell your story in the most effective and powerful way possible. This requires you to think in critical, analytical ways about the important similarities and differences between animations and picture books and decide how to combine and transform the resources you have in order for your audience to receive the best imaginable effect. There is no single correct way or universal formula for doing this; you must know and understand your communicative purpose and use your ingenuity to achieve it! I am confident that you will all get great results and learn a lot in the process! Please just keep an open mind and actively experiment. At the start of our next class, I will introduce a few more useful iPad apps for photo editing and (re)designing your pages.
Written Reflection: Each of you will write a written reflection on the process of adapting your animation into a picture book. Your reflection will be divided into two parts:1. A detailed description of the process of creating your picture book adaptation (250-350 words)
Please include
- how and why you chose your animation;
- what you thought about and did at each step in the process of transforming the animation into a picture book, and why; and
- what challenges you faced in deciding how to adapt your animation, and how you overcame these.
2. A discussion of what you realized or learned about media, mediation, language and English in general over the course of producing your adaptation (150-250 words)
Think and write about
- how and why different media offer uniquely different possibilities for expression and meaning; and
- the roles that English and other languages may play within different kinds of media, and why, in your opinion and based on your experience.
2.) Video Re-creations: My brother George introduced me to Ton Do-Nguyen, the sixteen year old who recently created the Snuggie version of a Beyonce music video. If you watch the side-by-side comparison, it is easy to see the incredible skill and attention to detail of this young man. And to know that he learned this on his own without any formal instruction makes this even more amazing.I don’t have many examples of this type of thing, not that I don’t think there are any, but that I just haven’t been looking until now. But I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the process of discovering, recreating and reverse-engineering complex editing processes like seen in this video must lead to deep learning, and thus I do believe this is a worthwhile type of project to pursue.
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Here is how to put videos side by side:
3) Genre Shifting Movie Trailers: One of my favourite types of video projects are the genre-shifted movie trailers where creators take movie clips and retell the plot of the story in a different genre than the original. Popular examples include The Shining as a romantic comedy, Mary Poppins as a dark horror film, Home Alone as a horror/thriller, Superbad as a thriller, Ferris Bueller’s Day off as an indie “coming of age” film and Mrs. Doubtfire as a horror film.Genre-shifting video projects are valuable in a number of ways. As video creation projects, they would not require a high-level of technical ability. In fact, I would argue that students with basic video editing capabilities could create videos like these from a purely technical perspective. However, if done well, such projects could challenge students to think deeply about the grammar of storytelling while considering essential elements of creating video (e.g., music, timing, edits/cuts, effects, pauses/silence, etc.) for various genres . As well, students would have to acquire a keen eye for the curation involved in finding & gathering elements that would support a chosen genre. But, even without offering students a hands-on component, these videos would be great for discussing questions around how film directors/producers make us feel a certain way through the thoughtful use of various edits & visual/auditory/stylistic elements.
4) Spoken word: you will take a spoken word poem and animate the meaning so that other can understand it easily. Please see the example below:
link to vids
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5) Storytelling Lip-Syncs: I’ve recently discovered BoredShortsTV, a Youtube channel where kids write & record audio stories and adults reenact the stories while lip-syncing the original audio. My favourite video so far is this “Salesman” clip, but see also “Principal’s Office”, “Dance Class” and “Basketball Class”.I would love to see schools take on a video project such as this where elementary school students were responsible for writing, narrating and recording audio stories and then had middle school or high school students act out and lip-sync the video in creative ways. This could provide an onramp for greater collaboration amongst teachers, across grade levels, and also provide a project that would be humorous and fun for the entire school community to view.
After your finished
- Upload the media to your websites from YouTube and or Google Drive
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2. Create survey using Google Forms
- Go to My drive-->new-->more-->forms
- make a survey
- Change the form setting and un-select Kanda account required
- Click on Share survey (make sure the survey is public)
- Choose embed copy code
- Go to your weebly site and embed the code below your video.
- Fix code height to fit entire survey
- Publish
- google video embed code
- YouTube video url
- Survey embed code and link