Have you ever noticed? There are common camera composition conventions that professional ...
Have you ever noticed? There are common camera composition conventions that professional news video shooters, cinematographers, and broadcast engineers use to appeal to viewers. With this 10-Shot Camera Challenge, students can practice and hone basic camera composition shots.
Students learn how to conquer external audio recorders and best practices for ...
Students learn how to conquer external audio recorders and best practices for recording and syncing audio. This resource includes a video and teaching resources.
Students learn how sound can make or break their videos, why understanding ...
Students learn how sound can make or break their videos, why understanding the power of audio in video production is important, and an overview of different types of mics.
This project is designed to help students create a short documentary film ...
This project is designed to help students create a short documentary film using the information they gathered to create an animal report. It can be used after writing an animal report or can be adapted to be used as the actual animal report. It can be designed to appear as a documentary series with all students having the same title opening, or be completely standalone. Students will be learning to find creative commons photos and videos to use in their film. They will create their film using iMovie on their iPads. Brown-Throated three-toed sloth female face.jpg- Wikimedia Commons
Students discover what constitutes a natural disaster, explore the different professions involved ...
Students discover what constitutes a natural disaster, explore the different professions involved with natural disaster response, identify steps they can take to help themselves and others be prepared for natural disasters. Students also learn about filmmaking and create a film to share stories and lessons learned from natural disasters and educate individuals about natural disaster preparedness. Emergency Preparedness picture from public domain (https://nara.getarchive.net/media/washington-dc-july-7-2006-a-red-cross-ready-to-go-preparedness-kit-showing-946cb7)
This lesson teaches the first steps to creating a movie. The students ...
This lesson teaches the first steps to creating a movie. The students will be creating a storyboard and writing a script. This lesson is for 3rd or 4th graders. Citation for thumbnail image: Public Domain Dedication from openclipart.com
This lesson will engage students in investigating and learning about how to ...
This lesson will engage students in investigating and learning about how to speak in Spanish about things they do in the city. Image found in Unsplash.com
Students will create a Civil War film about a Civil War battle. Image: ...
Students will create a Civil War film about a Civil War battle. Image: "Battle of Gettysburg", by Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives, Library of Congress, Wiki Commons.
In order to become fluent in a language, it is necesary to make mistakes ...
In order to become fluent in a language, it is necesary to make mistakes and learn from them. Learning to recognize your mistakes yourself is the beginning of mastery.Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
Three examples of the hour-long 'Teachng The Spy Hop Way' teacher training, ...
Three examples of the hour-long 'Teachng The Spy Hop Way' teacher training, where Myke Johnson takes participants through the different philosophies of creative design and youth engagement. These techniques foster youth voice and empowerment, as well as creating a safe space for artistic exploration. Some of these tools include listening techniques, inquiry based learning structures and quick, fun activities that transform a classroom into a hands-on artistic learning environment.
Three examples of the hour-long 'Teachng The Spy Hop Way' teacher training, ...
Three examples of the hour-long 'Teachng The Spy Hop Way' teacher training, where Myke Johnson takes participants through the different philosophies of creative design and youth engagement. These techniques foster youth voice and empowerment, as well as creating a safe space for artistic exploration. Some of these tools include listening techniques, inquiry based learning structures and quick, fun activities that transform a classroom into a hands-on artistic learning environment.
Three examples of the hour-long 'Teachng The Spy Hop Way' teacher training, ...
Three examples of the hour-long 'Teachng The Spy Hop Way' teacher training, where Myke Johnson takes participants through the different philosophies of creative design and youth engagement. These techniques foster youth voice and empowerment, as well as creating a safe space for artistic exploration. Some of these tools include listening techniques, inquiry based learning structures and quick, fun activities that transform a classroom into a hands-on artistic learning environment.
This lesson is designed to further student understanding of what it looks ...
This lesson is designed to further student understanding of what it looks like to be a good Digital Citizen in their community. Students will use the medium of filmmaking to share their understanding of digital citizenship and to either portray a fictional scenario involving a digital citizenship principle or a documentary-style clip sharing information about digital citizenship.Event Photographer and Videographer Icon courtesy of canva for education wichaiwi from WiStudio
This lesson is to teach students about different apps they can use ...
This lesson is to teach students about different apps they can use to create their digital stories based upon the script that they wrote. In this lesson, they will explore different video-making apps and begin to create their video using their script and storyboards.
This is a video assignment for students who are taking the CTE Emergency ...
This is a video assignment for students who are taking the CTE Emergency Medical Responder course at their public high school. This lesson/project aims at helping students use and grow their filmmaking skills while applying their knowledge of what to do in medical or environmental emergencies.
This lesson is for art teachers interested in brining film making into ...
This lesson is for art teachers interested in brining film making into their setting. Students will be asked to create a piece that looks at their "purpose." It should be treated a celebration of the student, where others identify strengths of their classmates, and create a film on it.
This lesson plan promotes the use of written and spoken academic language ...
This lesson plan promotes the use of written and spoken academic language by multilingual students. It is based on secondary standards. It uses filmmaking to bring writing and speaking together while focusing on academic langauge. Photo by Jeswin Thomas on Unsplash
This is a lesson introducing students to storyboards and beginning to think ...
This is a lesson introducing students to storyboards and beginning to think about how to create a story to film in a future lesson. Students will work backward to write a storyboard for a short film, will brainstorm and outline their story they want to share, and will then flesh it out as a storyboard and will think about the shot the want, the audio they want to add and they will revise their lessons based on feedbakc from teachers and peers.
In this Level Up, you will learn why b-roll is key to ...
In this Level Up, you will learn why b-roll is key to powerful storytelling, and tips for capturing compelling visuals for any video story. This resource includes a video and teaching resources.
This lesson plan utilizes filmmaking to motivate students speaking Chinese, most importantly, ...
This lesson plan utilizes filmmaking to motivate students speaking Chinese, most importantly, to give a presentation with the key vocabulary/phrases and sentence structures that they have learned. The aim is to apply what they have learned into their daily life.(This resource's preview image is from YouTube and is openly licensed.)
Recording a video diary is one of the best ways to tell ...
Recording a video diary is one of the best ways to tell your own story. Take a look at these tips from some of SRL's producers (and with help from some of our student journos) on how to record your own.
An interview, video diary, or news package is enhanced when you can ...
An interview, video diary, or news package is enhanced when you can get some shots that visually represent what was said on camera. In this Level Up tutorial, SRL will show you how to use your phone to record b-roll.
This lesson plan utilizes filmmaking to solidify student understanding of scientific phenomena ...
This lesson plan utilizes filmmaking to solidify student understanding of scientific phenomena related to matter. While the plan is tied to 5th grade SEEd standards, it can be adapted to meet any SEEd standard at any grade level, particularly in upper elementary, middle school, and high school. (This resource's preview image was created by the author of this lesson plan.)
PBS NewsHour and the Utah Education Network team up for this presentation ...
PBS NewsHour and the Utah Education Network team up for this presentation about the PBS Student Reporting Labs project and StoryMaker platform. Together PBS and UEN provide free projects, lesson plans, storytelling resources, tutorials, support, and mentoring just for you to help you build the next generation of media creators.
On this episode of PDTV, our production team steps in front of ...
On this episode of PDTV, our production team steps in front of the camera to go through the top 10 tips for creating pro-quality videos. Katie, Fernando and Nicole share examples and recommendations for each tip to give additional guidance to those less familiar with video production.
This lesson plan uses filmmaking to teach and reinforce the concept of rhythm, ...
This lesson plan uses filmmaking to teach and reinforce the concept of rhythm, which is one of the Principles of Design. You could easily substitute one of the other Principles or Elements of Design instead of concentrating on rhythm. Although this lesson was created for an Interior Design class, it could also be used in an art or clothing class, or adapted for other content areas.Thumnail image - "A Principle of Design: Rhythm," created by Tamara Hardy
This lesson plan is for a short unit on making promotional films ...
This lesson plan is for a short unit on making promotional films for elective classes to recruit students and to help students build their multimedia presentation skills as well as digital media literacy. The goal is to create a 2-3-minute example film that will promote elective classes and give reasons why students take specific programs and what their goals and intentions for these classes are. This is part of a unit that can be taught in as little as a week but would probably be best spaced out over at least 1-2 weeks. Example Project:Why Join JournalismThumbnail Credits: Photo by NEOSiAM 2021 from Pexels
SRL wants to meet students where they are online -- whether that’s ...
SRL wants to meet students where they are online -- whether that’s TikTok or Instagram. Used both as a reporting tool and a promotional tool, social media can be integral for student journalists. Use this guide to help find your classroom’s voice online.
This is a fun lesson plan is meant to help students master ...
This is a fun lesson plan is meant to help students master the ability to retell a story with a beginning middle and end, and identify important characters and settings in the story. It will also help students learn the very basics of film making including story boarding, creating props and scenery, the importance or lighting and camera placement, copyright, and audio.
Script for 'Teachng The Spy Hop Way' teacher training, where Myke Johnson ...
Script for 'Teachng The Spy Hop Way' teacher training, where Myke Johnson takes participants through the different philosophies of creative design and youth engagement. These techniques foster youth voice and empowerment, as well as creating a safe space for artistic exploration. Some of these tools include listening techniques, inquiry based learning structures and quick, fun activities that transform a classroom into a hands-on artistic learning enviornment.
Writing a script is intimidating, but actually, breaking the process into small ...
Writing a script is intimidating, but actually, breaking the process into small steps makes it MUCH EASIER and will result in a MUCH BETTER story. This lesson shows you how to plan and write a script. It is highly recommended that you use this lesson when students are working on a story. This lesson has several parts. These Scripting Slides can be used throughout the lessons. You might use some or all. Each will take about 50 minutes.
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