INSTRUCTORS: 

• Middle School:  Kaala Hentz, Retha Bell, Ken Greene,  & Kevan Johnson
• High School:  Shango Cooke, Taura Taylor, Donnie Christian, Eddie Hollins, Brian Davis, & Ricky Richardson

OBJECTIVE: Students will engage in learning about digital media.  Content of the course includes video production / editing as well as music creation / editing.  Each group of students in this strand will create a video about the Institute itself, the field trip to the zoo, OR a project of their own choosing.  They will also create music to use in their video. 

COURSE OUTLINE:

Students will combine skills learned in digital music production and digital video production to create a final product.

Digital Music Production (Garage Band)

• Getting Started
  • Opening Garage Band
  • Creating a new songwriting project
  • Naming / Saving files
  • Introduction to interface
  • Rewind / Fast forward / Play / Record
  • Viewing / Hiding the loop browser, track info ("eye" and "I"), and track editor
• Editing
  • Deleting music / Deleting tracks
  • Adding tracks (Software instruments - green / Real instruments & vocals - blue)
  • Browsing for / selecting music tracks / adding to project
  • Recording vocals
  • Splitting / Joining tracks
  • Moving tracks / Extending tracks
  • Adjusting volume
  • Muting / Solo controls
  • Turning "cycle" on and off
  • Metronome (see Preferences)
• Sharing
  • Sharing to iTunes
  • Using music in iMovie 

Digital Video Production (iMovie)

Lights, camera, action! Produce your own movie using iMovie.

Suggested Activities:

• Create a Modern Day Nursey Rhyme Warm-up( Familiarize with software and Equipment)
• Create a commercial video about Got Tech Camp

   

Getting started with IMovie

• Opening /closing a project
• Naming a project 
• Importing video from your camera
• Drag and dropping clips into project window
• Organizing /Editing video clips
• How to stablize shaky video
• Adding background music to your video
• Adding titles to your video
• Adding Transitions between video clips
• Adding video effects
• Adding a voiceover to your video

Beginning the Project:  Planning Stage

     Students will:

• Establish their role in a group, such storyboard and audio groups
• Formulate a topic
• Choose what type of video to make
• View sample projects
• Select a video style:  documentary, scripted, or situation style
• Determine the location
• Evaluate the planning process
• You Be The Producer Lesson Plans.flv

Before the Tape Rolls:  Preproduction Stage

     Students will:

• Create a storyboard to outline the content
• Create a script for the storyboard
• Determine what part they will play in the production
• Determine the style and direction of the video
• Adjust the audio/music selections or creations
• Review the storyboard rubric
• You Be The Producer Lesson Plans2.flv
• 

Start the Tape:  Shooting

     Students will:

• Learn how to use camera shots, camera angles, compostion, and camera tricks
• Put the story together with sounds/music using GarageBand
• Include common elements of editing such as:
  • Video trimming
  • Making transtions between scenes
  • Tilting or captioning
  • Recording audio tracks
  • Creating special effects
• Import video footage on the computer or storage device
• Assemble the video clips onto the story line
• Preview the video for comments and criticisms
• You Be The Producer Lesson Plans3.flv

The Final Product

     Students will:

• Edit, modify, and proofread all video clips and audio
• Publish the group video by importing their iMovie product to iDVD
• Use a Student Video Checklist to evaluate their video
• You Be The Producer Lesson Plans4.flv

TASK:

To prepare for the creation of their own video production, students learn how to use the video editing software iMovie. Students import the raw footage used to make the sample movies. They edit the content by adding video effects, applying transitions, and inserting text overlays.  They will also add an original music track which they create in Garage Band.

Students team up to film their video footage. To begin, they decide on a plot for their movie and use a storyboard to organize their ideas. Afterwards, they capture the action sequences using basic video recording equipment. Throughout the lesson plans are helpful movie making tips.

• To create their video students will use a storyboard to plan
• Students learn how to split scenes to delete unwanted portions of a video clip. Afterwards, they apply their knowledge to add effects, transitions, and text.

• Students put the finishing touches on their iMovie. They learn how to import their own created music and add narration to explain each exciting event. Once the movie is complete, it is exported from the iMovie program to iDVD. This will allow the movie to be viewed using Quicktime. The video is then shown at the end of the week.  

• Tutorials for IMovie

Online Resources:  http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/producer/