Lessons of the Moving Image

Digital Storytelling link BL4Thttp://wimmeraict.wikispaces.com Communicating messages Students as consumers & producers Rich learning tasks, HOT tasks Last session focused on the teaching & learning of digital stories. Rubrics to design in intended learning tasks and expected standards for students. This session is more on making & editing videos.

Digital Stories Fiction Documentary School events Personal Biographical Exhibitions Editorial or Opinion Statements Debates Instructional Reports Others

Video products Videos from Net or DVDs Mashups or re-edits: Mashup (digital), a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video, and animation, which recombines and modifies existing digital works to create a derivative work (Wikipedia). Mashup (digital) Student and teacher created videos

Sources Mark Dixon’s movies for DEECD’s Showcase, especially Slowmation, other movies on Kym Nadebaum’s notes & videos from digital storytelling workshops in Melbourne & Ararat, 2009 available on Atomic Learning Video Storytelling Guide Jo Tate, Ultranet Coach, Digital Storytelling kit Including Martha Mollison Producing Videos 2003 Media Studies courses over the years.

Same but different movies From a teacher’s point of view, what are the messages for us from viewing these two movies? Please add some thoughts.

The Analogy Words/phrase and video Shot Sentence/paragraph and video sequence Chapter and video scenes Both need plans and to follow rules and conventions to be effective communication.

Ref: Kym Nadebaum

Shot/Sequence/Scene/Story Mindmap software: Free Mind, Inspiration, Kidsiration

1 1.Closeup biker puts on helmet 2.Long Shot biker rides towards camera, race banner in background 3.Medium shot profile biker to screen right 4.Very Long Shot biker rides to screen right 5.Closeup boot on pedal 6.Close up exhaust pipe shooting flame 7.Long shot from rear biker rides towards finish line 8.Closeup biker’s head as he passes finish line flag Mollison Producing Videos p78

Long Shots, Establishing Shots, Perspective Shots

Medium Shots, Framing Shots

Closeups, focusing shots

Extreme Closeups, the details

Cutaway Shots

Camera angles High angle Low angle

Point of View

Point of View shots

Over the shoulder shot

Composition: The Rule of Thirds And……… head space, talking/action/look/nose space, eye position, not making cuts at natural joints

The Rule of Thirds, horizons

Shooting Interviews

Ref: Kym Nadebaum

Space for sketch of shot Space for description of shot Space for script or audio description

Aspects to consider: 1.Types of shots used in sequence 2.Composition of shots 3.How the story was told 4.How interviews were shot 5.Consider what the storyboard may have looked like. 6.Was the story effectively communicated? View movie Slowmation by Mark Dixon, DEECD

There is a movie being played in a small window, it has been compressed enormously to fit onto Elluminate. A CD is being sent to all schools and it has a much better quality version of the movie. Suggestion is to have the CD and play it before you go on further with listening to the recording.

Shot Worksheet: What shot was that? Tick the shots as you see them appear. Roughly how long are they? Establishing shot ES Middle Shot MS Closeup CU Extreme Close Up XCU Over the shoulder shotOS Point of View POV Cut ins CUT Pans P Zooms Z

Task 1: Shot Types & Time What did you find about the frequency of different types of shots? What did you find about the duration of the different shots? Type in your answers.

Sequence Worksheet: Select an sequence and try to record the shots/time. LS, MS, CU, XCU, CA (cutaway), POV (point of view), pan, tilt, zoom.. How many shots in the sequence? 1: First in sequence: 2. Next shot: 3. Next shot: 4. Next shot: 5. Next shot: 6. Next shot:

Task 2: Sequences What structure of shots and their duration did you find in the sequence you noted?

Task 3: What were the main messages of the story- did the filming techniques help to convey that effectively? Write brief responses below please.

Some other tips Zooming is rarely used, is used to change shots from a long shot to a much closer shot. The lighting is another major topic- check out the light, shoot away from windows and intense light. Hold the shot for about 10 secs to give you plenty to select from for editing. Short shots only, shots are trimmed to between 3 and10 secs Establish the setting Connect the start & the end Edit to avoid jumps from one shot to a similar shot.

Editing Capture video & other files to computer Create a project folder and save video, photos, sound, music, narration files to it. Import to software (MovieMaker or iMovie…Premiere or Final Cut Pro) Drop/drag clips onto timeline and trim and manipulate them there. Save & export movies.

Movie Maker Editing a videoclip

Movie Maker interface Video clips, still photos, sound files are dragged onto or imported into the Collections pane Movie tasks pane monitor storyboard

Select & import files

Movie maker splits video clips into smaller clips to allow easier editing

View clips on monitor Select clips to be included, delete others Drag clips into storyboard Click to show timeline (see next slide)

Note time for clips, can be trimmed to time required Use monitor to determine points to trim on timeline Selection tool to play clips

To shorten clip time, click and drag edge of clip

To complete movie: File/Save As will save as a Movie Maker file for later editing if required. File/Save As Movie file will create a movie for playing A sound file, music or commentary might be added here in another project Text as titles and credits might be added here