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Keywords: Movie Making, Video Editing, Design, Direct, Edit, Produce, Biography, Videography, Movie, Video, Sound, Microphone, Podcast, Podcasting
Subject(s): Art, Video, Technology, Podcasting, Music, Information Skills, Business, Photography, Drama
Grades 7 through 12
NETS-S Standard:
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Technology Operations and Concepts
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School: Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL
Planned By: Jason Neel
Original Author: Jason Neel, Birmingham
Course: Library Science

Concept / Topic To Teach: Direct, edit, and produce student projects

Standards Addressed: Technology Integration

Specific Objectives:
•The student will organize his or her own project.
•The student will film his or her own project.
•The student will upload and edit his or her own project.
•The student will produce his or her own project.
•Student projects will be displayed in the library media center, on the website, at faculty and student assemblies.

Step-By-Step Procedures:
1. Students will produce storyboards for their desired project. Students’ topics may include field trips, claymation, school plays, academic topics (history, literature, science, etc.), or other approved topics.

2. Students will use the library media center’s Flip Cameras to film their desired project.

3. Students will use the library media center’s computers with Tool Factory Movie Maker (if awarded) to upload, edit, and produce their projects.

4. Students’ projects will be streamed on the website, and played in the library media center, and shown at faculty and student assemblies.
Follow-Up
After the assignment the movies that the students create will be posted to the Information Resource Center website.
Materials: Video Cameras, Hi-Def Camcorder, Digital Cameras, Point and Shoot, Digital SLR, Digital Voice Recorders, Microphones, Hard Drives, Camera Bags, Tripods, Podcasting, Video Tools, Music, Pro Composition, Sound Libraries