Digital Video Across The Curriculum

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Digital VideoAcross The Curriculum

• Harold Olejarz
• Roberto Gutierrez
• Eisenhower Middle SchoolWyckoff, New Jersey

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Project Ideas

• TV Commercial
• Students create a commercial for a product or
  service in a world language.

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Project Ideas

• History/Social Studies
• Students create a video on an important
  historical figure.

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Project Ideas

• Science
• Students produce a documentary on a selected
  topic using images downloaded from the Internet.

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Project Ideas

• Language Arts
• Students dramatize a poem using video and still
  images. Each line of the poem becomes a scene in
  the video.

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Project Ideas

• Illustrating Literature
• Students dramatize a scene from a work of
  literature, for example one of Aesops Fables.
  

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Project Ideas

• Math Class and
• Science Club
• Students report on the teaching and learning
  that goes on in class or club.

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Project Ideas

• Art History
• Students play roles for an interview. Students
  may be artists, historical figures or experts.

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Project Ideas

• Character Education
• Students develop videos promoting Character
  Education

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Project Ideas

• Commercial Art
• Students create a commercial for a product or
  service.

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Classroom Teachers Approach

• Inspire students using acquired technical
  knowledge
• Curriculum based video projects
• Group activity
• Multiple intelligences

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Classroom Teachers Approach

• Students enjoy working on project
• Individual accountability
• Benchmark Grading system
• Use of school media lab

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Classroom Teachers Approach

• Why are video projects successful?
• Students enjoy watching themselves on video
• Students enjoy hearing and seeing themselves
  speaking and acting in target language
• Students encourage one another to do a better
  job

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Student Behavior

• Discuss proper behavior in front of and behind
  the camera, include respect for the feelings of
  others. Discourage bloopers.

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Rubrics

• Develop rubrics that reflect the objectives of
  your teaching and give students an understanding
  of what is required and expected.

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R U B R I C S
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R U B R I C S
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R U B R I C S
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Project Sheets

• Develop a project sheet that includes - title of
  project, outline of project, names of students in
  group, jobs of students in group

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Storyboard

• Have students use a storyboard to plan their
  video.

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Permission Issue

• Be sure to get proper permission to post videos
  on the web and/or present video on public access
  channels.

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Permission Issue

• Depending on permission issues you may want
  students to use first names only in their videos
  and on their credits.

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Video Editing Software

• Mac OS
• iMovie
• Final Cut Express
• Final Cut Pro

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Video Editing Software

• PC Software
• Pinnacle Studio 8
• Microsoft MovieMaker
• Adobe Premiere
• Sonic Foundry Video Factory

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Videotaping Tips

• When taping it is always best to use a tripod and
  frame your subject. Most cameras have an image
  stabilization feature but too often beginning
  video students do not hold the camera steady.
  They move the camera up and down and from side to
  side so much so that the image stabilization
  feature cannot compensate for all of the
  movement.

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Videotaping Tips

• Use your camera's zoom feature sparingly.
  Students have a tendency to want to keep zooming
  in and out so quickly that the resulting video
  appears very "nervous."

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Videotaping Tips

• Encourage students to be aware of lighting.
  Students should try to keep their light source
  behind them if taping indoors make certain that
  available light is adequate.

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Videotaping Tips

• Export your video to a computer daily. Never tape
  an entire project and then export it to a
  computer. Reviewing footage in a computer daily
  provides valuable feedback on the success of your
  camera work and sound quality, better to discover
  a taping problem early in a project.

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Videotaping Tips

• If you are interviewing someone get the camera as
  close to your subject as possible for the best
  sound quality. The camcorder's built in
  microphone will not work well from a distance
  because the zoom feature does not work for sound.

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Videotaping Tips

• Start taping before your subject speaks and let
  the tape run a few seconds after your subject has
  finished speaking. This will insure that you
  don't miss anything.

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Videotaping Tips

• DV tape cannot be taped over more than two or
  three times. If you are reusing tapes and the
  image quality degrades it is time to get a new
  tape.

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Editing Tips

• Once you have imported your footage onto a
  computer be sure to SAVE. When you are editing
  your footage it is also best to save often. This
  is true no matter what you are doing on a
  computer but especially true when you are working
  with large video files.

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Editing Tips

• Think of video editing as a "cut and place job."
  First, cut any footage you will not use but be
  sure not to delete any footage that you may use.
  Then, place your clips in an order that makes the
  most sense for your project. Play it several
  times and ask others to review your footage
  before you make any final decisions.

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Editing Tips

• Be sure to label your clips. This will make it
  easier to arrange your clips in the proper
  sequence.

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Editing Tips

• When adding transitions and text make sure that
  your clip is long enough to contain the text
  and/or transition. If it is not, the text will
  spill over into the next clip or the transition
  will not work properly.

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Editing Tips

• Transitions between clips take footage from the
  end of the first clip and the beginning of the
  second clip. Keep your transition times short. If
  your transitions are too long your footage will
  appear choppy.

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Editing Tips

• Use transitions sparingly. A simple dissolve
  transition is often best. Commercial movies and
  TV shows rarely use a host of different
  transitions.

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Editing Tips

• If you cannot get a transition to work because
  your clips are too short, create still clips out
  of the last frame of the first clip and the first
  frame of the second clip. Place the transition
  between the still frames. The still frames will
  provide the extra footage the transition needs to
  work without distorting your footage.

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Editing Tips

• You can always add a voice over or a soundtrack
  to your video during the editing process.

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Presentation and Storage Tips

• When your digital video projects are completed
  there are several options to consider. You can
  simply store your video on your computer but that
  takes up lots of hard drive space. You may want
  to purchase an external hard drive to store
  completed videos or videos in progress.

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Presentation and Storage Tips

• Digital videos can also be exported back to DV
  tape and then played on a TV through your DV
  camcorder. You can also transfer your video from
  a DV tape to a VHS tape by connecting your DV
  camcorder to a VCR. If you have the right
  hardware another option may be to burn your video
  onto a DVD or video CD.

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Presentation and Storage Tips

• If you would like to place a compressed version
  of your movie onto a web page iMovie gives you
  the option to export your movie to QuickTime, PC
  users have similar options.

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Digital VideoAcross The Curriculum

• Harold Olejarz
• Roberto Gutierrez
• Eisenhower Middle SchoolWyckoff, New Jersey