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Digital Video Project: The Story Behind Art

Ms. Mallory Ketterer

Subject: Digital Media                            

 Grade Level: 11th

Unit of Study:  iMovie

Title of Lesson: The Story Behind Art

Preparation:

            -Spend one-day teaching students about the different types and styles of             films students can create with this project.

            -Spend one day teaching the technology of the video camera and choosing             their photo or painting.

             -Spend one day on the program iMovie.

             -Spend one day on audio, music, sound affects.

            -Spend four/five days working on shooting/editing the film. (If more time is             needed students can meet outside of class.)

            -Spend one day presenting to the class.

Total class time: 9-10 classes

Objective of Lesson:

            Students in groups of three will take a photograph or painting and bring it to life.  They must have the original scene from the painting or photograph in their film.  The video must not be shorter than 1min and no longer than 2min.  They can either act out what happened before the scene, after or during the scene in the painting or photo they choose.

Challenges:

            There will be many challenges to this project.  Especially when you are using all technology.  Programs will not work, projects will get deleted, cameras will get broken, audio will be missing, computers will crash, there are so many challenges you will face when teaching this lesson.  What you have to remember is to be flexible and prepared.  Flexible for anything to happen and prepared for the worst so you know what to do when something goes wrong and steer your students in the right direction.

Video Project

Our video project was a success! My partner and I filmed all of our footage in chapters. Which made it really easy to put together as a finished video.  Also we put in the audio after we had filmed all of our scenes. We could have improved in the audio and the amount of footage we filmed.  At first we thought it would be best to use a microphone and talk at the same time... well the microphone did not work and we did not check the clips to see if it worked.  All so we had A LOT of footage! Much more than we needed, I guess Kara and I wanted each scene to be perfect.  So next time I would not use a microphone and try and tape over scenes I did not want to use.  This project aside from being extremely fun will help me a lot in the class room.  I can have my students make art through their videos.  This experience could help a student realize this is what they want to do when they get older.  I also can incorporate a lot of other programs like photoshop, illustrator, imovie and many other programs into the film project.