Applying Video Skills Part 2 of 2
This is a continuation of the previous article on using Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction in teaching video skills by creating a Public Service Announcement.
Examples for extended activity ideas:
Video/Audio editing discussion.
Choose a movie, video, or soundtrack which you like. Watch and/or listen to it carefully. Think about the ideas discussed in class. Select a 3 to 5 minute clip from the piece. Make notes about the editing of the selected clip. Draw a storyboard of the clip you have chosen. Play the clip for the class and discuss the editing.
This activity helps students plan for the interview process and assess their own efforts.
What To Do: Begin by defining what is wanted from the interview(s). Decide on who would be an appropriate interview subject. Gather facts, opinions, or stories from professionals, community members, family members, teachers, or other students. Keep the constraints of the project in mind. Think broadly about what types of people and information can be accessed through the interview/s.
Questions:
Are we seeking information? opinions? a good story? something else?
How will the information from the interview fit into and add to our project?
Who are all the people who might have the information we need?
Of the people we could interview, who is available and willing?
Keeping in mind the information to elicit from the interview, prepare a list of topics or questions for the interview. Questions should be clear and open-ended, and should include follow-up questions to get in-depth information.
If videotaping the interview, consider additional technical needs. Discuss and make preparations for accurately recording the interview by hand, perhaps by having more than one note-taker and reading notes back to the interviewee.
Following each interview, reflect on the interview process and assessment of the efforts. In groups, students can review notes or video footage of the interview and discuss how things went. It may also be appropriate for other groups or the teacher to review and provide feedback on the interview.
Possible follow-up questions for students:
What went well during the interview process?
What could have gone better?
How can we plan to avoid the same problems in the next interview?
How was the interview useful to our project?
Here is an example of another extended activitiy:
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