This week our focus was on Digital Video. To practice the skills of digital video my group did a Jeopardy take. We came up with a treatment that laid out our purpose, audience, time length for the video, and the style (game show, public service announcement, etc). It also includes a detailed paragraph that includes an overview of the video.
Once the treatment was finished we laid out step by step how we would shoot the video using a storyboard. This included the shots that would be taken, what would be said, and what effects would be added (paning, zooming, music, sound effects).
After all shots had been taken and sound clips had been laid out we used Windows movie maker to edit the videos. This included cropping and splicing scences, adding pictures, adding effects, and adding all auditory such as music and sound. Unfortunately we forgot a crucial step, finalizing the video to put it in a playable format.
As far as use in the classroom I am asking myself the Is it Worth it Factor? I can see digital video editing being very useful in a high school marketing class, but am unsure about using it with elementary school students. Going through the treatment, storyboard, videoing, and editing process certainly teaches sequence, promotes writing skills, and results in students having to carefully plan and design. I could see it being used for how-to videos, storytelling, famous people interviews, ancient civilizations, or regions. However this also will be very time consuming. Then again the emotional connection students would have from researching and designing such a project would certainly make it memorable. So memorable, but time consuming. So, is it worth it?
You and I wrote about almost the same thing! Its hard to really think that teaching students the process of digital video editing can be worth the time it takes to properly and effectively perform the task, unless the content of the lesson itself is on video editing. The only class at my school that I can envision this being worth the time would be our Broadcast Journalism class.
ReplyDeleteWhat are some ways then that you teach students to communicate effective messages? If they are only asked to create the same kind of messages (i.e. essays, research reports) they are missing tons of skills both software and thinking skills.
ReplyDeleteBrown, Duguid, and Collins (1989)stated that the more ways we use a tool the better we understand that tool. (Tool can be conceptual, physical, intellectual, etc.)