MON: Documentary Week 3 of 4 (advanced sound and video in iMovie)

WARMUP: RE-READ The Project 
Requirements BELOW
Your Completed 
Rough Draft Documentary 
w/ temporary voice-over is 

DUE THIS THURSDAY

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can do my own darn work and stay out of everyone else's way

Announcements:  

• Bring Headphones 'ERY DAY

Homework:  Make your OWN homework

Agenda [65]:

Recording your temporary voice-over [05]

Fine-tuning your audio and video [05]

Personal Documentary Work-time [55]

• Use your outline
• Use your script
• Continue researching
• As a rule of thumb, if you are behind, try to build at lease 60 seconds of timeline each class

• Recapping the project requirements
• 3-5 minutes long "documentary"
• You are explaining a topic to your audience
• Topic is researched & Facts & Data are clearly in your finished film
• Through your research you are TEACHING YOURSELF TO BE AN EXPERT ON YOUR TOPIC
• Your documentary film is how you are explaining your topic to the audience
• Do not use the words of others except as a direct quote. Learn your topic and explain it in your own words.
• Script is written for everything except Interviews
• Interviews are NOT required
• Keynote must be used in some way
• Graphics
• Explain a concept in pictures 
• Remember the coffee cup
• Green screen
• Overlay facts & figures creatively  
• Look at the examples again!
• Charts 
• charts are NOT required but are often a good way to show data
• All video must be shot by you 
• Unless otherwise approved, such as family footage or some other foreign footage arranged by you
• Everything else is made up of...
• High resolution images that are displayed using iMovie (Ken Burns and other cropping tricks) and Keynote techniques
• Graphics, animations, charts and graphs that you create inside of Keynote
• NO downloaded video is allowed
• AFTER you complete your film you may petition to upgrade a Ken-Burns scene with video footage

FRI: Video Production - Workday [Day 9 of ?]

Your Documentary 

Voice-Over/Script 

is 
DUE THIS CLASS

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can do my own darn work and stay out of everyone else's way

Announcements:  

• Voice-Over Script is DUE TODAY
• Bring Headphones 'ERY DAY
• The YOUTH LAW ACADEMY  Application is due on April 29th by 5pm
• TINYURL.COM/YLA2018APP

Homework:  Make your OWN homework

Agenda [60]:

• Personal Documentary Work-time [60]
•  Finish your Documentary Script rough draft & check it in
• Upload Video
• Download Video
• Import video
• Edit Video
• Create graphics & effects in Keynote
• Export & import into iMovie

WED: Video Production - Workday [Day 8 of ?]

Your Documentary 

Voice-Over/Script 

is 
DUE NEXT CLASS

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can do my own darn work and stay out of everyone else's way

Announcements:  

• 40 Minute classes - all periods - TODAY
• Thursday is a minimum day for fitness testing 
• Voice-Over Script is DUE FRIDAY
• Bring Headphones 'ERY DAY
• The YOUTH LAW ACADEMY  Application is due on April 29th by 5pm
• TINYURL.COM/YLA2018APP

Homework:  Make your OWN homework

Agenda [40]:

• Personal Documentary Work-time [40]
• Upload Video
• Download Video
• Import video
• Edit Video
• Create graphics & effects in Keynote
• Export & import into iMovie
•  Write your Voice-Over script
• More on that next class
• As we work
• The How-To Videos

TUE: Video Production - Scripts & Ken Burns [Day 7 of ?]

Your Documentary 

Voice-Over/Script 

is DUE Friday

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can learn how to use THE "KEN BURNS" effect

Announcements:  

• 40 Minute classes - all periods - Wednesday
• Thursday is a minimum day for fitness testing 
• Voice-Over Script is DUE FRIDAY
• Bring Headphones 'ERY DAY
• The YOUTH LAW ACADEMY  Application is due on April 29th by 5pm
• TINYURL.COM/YLA2018APP

Homework:  Make your OWN homework

Agenda [60]:

• Writing your Voice-Over DUE FRIDAY [10]
• Can be handwritten or Google Doc
• Handwritten must be checked in on Friday
• Google doc must be turned in on Friday
• Must be 'cued' by visuals in your documentary 
• Every paragraph should have some written or visual representation of what is happening ON SCREEN while voice-over is being read. 
•  This is for your own organizational benefit. 
• The Ken Burns Effect [10]
  
• Download this photo

•  Now watch this video to see how this can be used to tell a story (use headphones!)
  
• Personal Documentary Work-time [40]
• Upload Video
• Download Video
• Import video
• Edit Video
• Create graphics & effects in Keynote
• Export & import into iMovie
•  Write your Voice-Over script
• More on that next class
• As we work
• The How-To Videos

MONI: Video Production - Scripts & Green Screen & Charts (oh, my...) [Day 6 of ?]

Your Documentary 

Voice-Over/Script 

is DUE Friday

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can learn how to use my Keynote skills in my iMovie projects
  

Announcements:  

• 40 Minute classes - all periods - Wednesday
• Thursday is a minimum day for fitness testing 
• Voice-Over Script is DUE FRIDAY
• Bring Headphones 'ERY DAY

Homework:  Make your OWN homework

Agenda [65]:

• Keynote Basics for Special Effects [10]
• Add "Green-Screen" LAST
• Play with the charts
• Simple is better
• 3-d is often a mess
• Exporting Options
• Quicktime

 Open Keynote | NEW-Standard-White

NEW Blank Slide

 Design & Animate objects & text

 Change Slide BACKGROUND to LIME GREEN

 EXPORT to Quicktime

 Settings are for "on-click" events

Leave them if you have a single, fully 

animated slide

 IMPORT into iMovie the *.m4v file 

you just exported from Keynote

 Add the green screen footage as a cutaway

 Change the cutaway type to "green/blue"

 Behold

 

Try John's Boats yourself!

• Personal Documentary Worktime [55]
• Upload Video
• Download Video
• Import video
• Edit Video
• Create graphics & effects in Keynote
• Export & import into iMovie
•  Write your Voice-Over script
• More on that next class
  
• As we work
• The How-To Videos

FRI: Video Production - Forks Over Knives [Day 5 of ?]

Your Personal Documentary Outline is DUE in 30 minutes

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can READ a documentary and ANALYZE its structure, narrative style, & effectiveness.

Announcements:  

• Bring Headphones 'ERY DAY

Homework:  Make your OWN homework

Agenda [60]:

• Personal Documentary Outline Worktime [30]
• Turn it in electronically or
• Show John the paper notes and make sure he marks it down
• Two Paths
• Working well? Then we will continue, otherwise...
• Forks Over Knives - part II [30]

WED/THU: Video Production - Forks Over Knives [Day 4 of ?]

Introduction to Feature-Length Documentary Filmmaking

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can READ a documentary and ANALYZE its structure, narrative style, & effectiveness.

Announcements:  

• Bring Headphones 'ERY DAY

Homework:  Make your OWN homework

Agenda [100]:

• Personal Documentary Outline Worktime [50]
• Introduction to the Documentary format [10]
• Tells a story
• Is supposed to be truthful and accurate (like the news)
• Can be with or without a viewpoint
• Often uses interviews
• Follows the rules of good story-telling
• Character development ('characters' in a documentary are not necessarily people)
• Antagonist
• Protagonist
• Story Arc
• Context 
• Rising action 
• Climax
• Falling action
• Follows the rules of good Photography
• Watching Forks Over Knives - Part 1 [40]


• What is the filmmaker's goal in making this film?
• How does he go about making his point?
• What elements of the film did you think were successful (or convinced you he was "right")?
• What elements of the film did you think were UNsuccessful (or that you did NOT find convincing)?
• What was the coolest camera or editing TRICK you saw?
• Synopsys:
• The feature film Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.
• Degenerative disease is the result of a continuous process based on degenerative cell changes, affecting tissues or organs, which will increasingly deteriorate over time, whether due to normal bodily wear or lifestyle choices such as exercise or eating habits.
• Abbreviated list of Degenerative diseases
• Alzheimer's diseases
• ALS, a.k.a., Lou Gehrig's Disease
• Arthritis
• Atherosclerosis
• Cancer
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Diabetes (Type II)
• Heart Disease
• Huntington's Disease
• Macular degeneration
• Multiple sclerosis
• Muscular dystrophy
• Osteoporosis
• Parkinson's Disease
• Rheumatoid Arthritis

TUE: Video Production - Personal Documentary Exemplars [Day 3 of ?]

NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS

DAILY Learning Target(s): 

• I can continue to brainstorm and research ideas and resources for my Personal Documentary
• I can learn by critiquing the exemplars

The Week(s) Ahead & Announcements

• CONTINUE BRINGING HEADPHONES EVERY DAY - they are essential for video editing - but don't have them out unless you are told.
• NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS 

HOMEWORK:

• Make your own homework
• Start to watch more documentaries of any length.
• Try these sources: 
• We will watch some of these in class 
• 60 Second Docs
• Your Brain on...
• Short of the Week: Documentary Channel 
• The Ken Burns Effect

Agenda: [60]

• REMEMBER: NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS
• WARMUP: Typing.com [10]
• The Personal Documentary: RECAP
• The subject of this film must be researched and written in advance.  This movie must be better than the last, using more advanced skills
• More Detail is available on the project introduction page HERE

• The Personal Documentary: Exemplars [20 +/-]
• Work-Time [30]
• How-To's if you behave

MON: Video Production - Personal Documentary Calendar [Day 2 of ?]

Didn't turn in your How-To? 

Do it NOW INSTEAD OF TYPING 

[classroom.google.com] and be sure to 

explain why it is late in the comments!

NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS

DAILY Learning Target(s): 

• I can begin to brainstorm ideas for my Personal Documentary
• I can copy the Project Calendar items to my personal calendar as necessary

The Week(s) Ahead & Announcements

• CONTINUE BRINGING HEADPHONES EVERY DAY - they are essential for video editing - but don't have them out unless you are told.
• NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS 

HOMEWORK:

• Make your own homework
• Start to watch more documentaries of any length.
• Try these sources: 
• We will watch some of these in class 
• 60 Second Docs
• Your Brain on...
• Short of the Week: Documentary Channel 
• The Ken Burns Effect

Agenda: [65]

• REMEMBER: NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS
• WARMUP: Typing.com [10]
• Project Calendar: [10]
  
  
  
• The Personal Documentary: RECAP
• The documentary is where you take the basic skills of the How-To and combine it with research and more advanced video skills, to produce a technically better video on a more interesting topic.
• This movie must be better than the last, using more advanced skills
• More Detail is available on the project introduction page HERE

• The subject of this film must be researched and written in advance
• You may use all B-Roll, graphics, and voice-over
• You do NOT need to have live narration or interviews
• The Personal Documentary: OUTLINE [10]
  
• classroom.google.com 
• 6:15 of Voice-Over & Still Images [15]
  
• What worked?
• What could have been improved?
• 75 seconds needs to be cut-out, what decision would YOU have made?
• Work-Time [20]

FRI: Video Production - How-To aftermath & Documentary introduction [Day 1 of ?]

NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS

DAILY Learning Target(s):  

• I can understand the scope of the Personal Documentary project
• I can begin to brainstorm ideas for my Personal Documentary

The Week(s) Ahead & Announcements

• On Monday we will be selecting our documentary topics.  
• The more you think about it over the weekend the easier your week will be.
• CONTINUE BRINGING HEADPHONES EVERY DAY - they are essential for video editing - but don't have them out unless you are told.
• NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS 

HOMEWORK:

• CONTINUE to watch a few different types of TV shows & COUNT how many shots they have in 30 seconds. Divide 30/by that number and you can see how many average seconds each shot lasts for that genre of TV.  Is ACTION the fastest? What about dance? What about romance? Reality? Game show?  
• Start to watch more documentaries of any length.
• How do they tell their story?
• Do they have a point of view?
• Are they believable?
• Are they manipulative?
• Try these sources: 
• We will watch some of these in class 
• 60 Second Docs
• Your Brain on...
• Short of the Week: Documentary Channel 

Agenda: [60]

• REMEMBER: NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS
• WARMUP: Typing.com [10]
• REFLECTING: What got in the way of a successful How-To? [10]
• The Personal Documentary: Introduction [20]
• The How-To was to get us to understand the technical skill - all you needed was an idea, the content was something you already knew
• The documentary is where you take that basic skill and combine it with research and more advanced video skills, producing a technically better video on a more interesting topic.
• This movie must be better than the last, using more advanced skills
• Keynote generated charts, graphs, and other visuals
• all special effects and special text effects

• More sophisticated sound 
• overlapping
• close editing
• replacing
• reversing
• pitching
• More sophisticated video layering
• opacity blending
• Green Screen effects 
• Video manipulation
• speed
• color
• light
• Sound manipulation
• pitch
• special effects
• In computer visuals moves on still pictures and motion videos
• the Ken Burns Effect
• Breaking the rules
• What about 6 seconds?
• Slow panning vertical video to create a crane shot and other cool tricks with excellent phones

• The subject of this film must be researched and written in advance
• You may use all  B-Roll, graphics, and voice-over
• You do NOT need to have live narration or interviews
• The Documentary film is to explain something to us.
• Explain something to us
• How something works
• Why something exists
• Introduce us to a place or a thing
• Tell us someone's story
• Let someone tell us their story
• Investigate something
• Illustrate a famous poem or speech
• Be a journalist
• The documentary must be researched in advance and include information from that research.
• All narration must be written in script form before it can be filmed
• Some Examples:
• Interview with A-Roll cutaway [02]
• Green Screen Magic [05]
• Voice over still images and B-Roll [06]
• A bigger canvas [08]
• How do, How-To? [??]

WED/THU: Video Production - How-To submission [Day 3 of 3]

No Typing

GET TO WORK

Your How-To is DUE 

@ the END of THIS Class

The class should be SILENT 

as you work

and remember...

NO VERTICAL VIDEO | ALWAYS HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS!

DAILY Learning Target(s):  

• I can COMPLETE and SUBMIT my How-To VIDEO

Agenda: [100]

• REMEMBER: NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS
• NO FOOTAGE TO EDIT?   Get out your phone and prepare to call home
• FOOTAGE TO UPLOAD? You better get crack-a-lackin'
• FOOTAGE TO DOWNLOAD?  Get your seat from John quick!
• ALREADY LOADED ON A NEW COMPUTER? Good Job!  
• Now finish your video!
• A QUICK word about SOUND
• YOUR COMPLETED HOW-TO is due at the end of THIS class, uploaded into the Google Classroom Assignment called 
•  "Upload your How-To video here"
• FINISHED?  You may...
• Quietly work on the storyboard or other arrangements for your Documentary or Featurette
• Quietly work on other schoolwork
• Quietly use Reading+, a Kindle, or a book

YOU MAY NOT PHYSICALLY ASSIST ANYONE WITH THEIR EDITING.  YOU MAY ASSIST VERBALLY BUT DO NOT TOUCH THEIR COMPUTER.

PHYSICALLY ASSISTING SOMEONE ON DEADLINE IS CHEATING AND BOTH STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE A PENALTY 

TUE: Video Production - How-To [Day 2 of 3]

No Typing

GET TO WORK

Your How-To is DUE 

@ the END of NEXT Class

and remember...

NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS!

DAILY Learning Target(s):  

• I can UPLOAD and ROUGH EDIT my How-To footage

The Week(s) Ahead & Announcements

• CONTINUE BRINGING HEADPHONES EVERY DAY - they are essential for video editing - but don't have them out unless you are told.
• NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS 

HOMEWORK:

• CONTINUE to watch a few different types of TV shows & COUNT how many shots they have in 30 seconds. Divide 30/by that number and you can see how many average seconds each shot lasts for that genre of TV.  Is ACTION the fastest? What about dance? What about romance? Reality? Game show?  
• Continue to watch different how-to, cooking, home improvement, or "fix it" videos on the internet and think about how well they TEACH what you are supposed to LEARN

Agenda: [60]

• REMEMBER: NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS
• Show me your footage: 
• If you DO have your footage online... Call me over
• If you DID shoot video and it just needs to be uploaded
• Do that and then CALL ME OVER!
• If you still did NOT shoot any video 
• Complete the new reflection in our Google Classroom -"Reflecting on a 2nd day with no work"
• Call me over when done
• Once you are in your new seat
• Clean up the PERIOD DRIVE  if it needs it
• DOWNLOAD your footage to a new folder on your PERIOD DRIVE
• IMPORT your footage into a NEW iMOVIE PROJECT
• Take out your STORYBOARD
• Start EDITING!
• A QUICK word about Titles
• YOUR COMPLETED HOW-TO is due at the end of NEXT class

MON: Video Production - How-To Editing [Day 1 of 3]

We CHANGE SEATS after typing

NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS

DAILY Learning Target(s):  

• I can UPLOAD and ROUGH EDIT my How-To footage

The Week(s) Ahead & Announcements

• CONTINUE BRINGING HEADPHONES EVERY DAY - they are essential for video editing - but don't have them out unless you are told.
• NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS 

HOMEWORK:

• CONTINUE to watch a few different types of TV shows & COUNT how many shots they have in 30 seconds. Divide 30/by that number and you can see how many average seconds each shot lasts for that genre of TV.  Is ACTION the fastest? What about dance? What about romance? Reality? Game show?  
• Continue to watch different how-to, cooking, home improvement, or "fix it" videos on the internet and think about how well they TEACH what you are supposed to LEARN

Agenda: [65]

• REMEMBER: NO VERTICAL VIDEO | HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS
• WARMUP: Typing.com [10]
• Exemplar: How to grip a skateboard [10].
• Show me your footage: [10-45]
• If you DO have your footage online...
• Navigate to wherever your How-To video footage is stored online and then call me over - do NOT download anything
• photos.google.com? 
• After showing me you can then
• Propose your new partner (both must be ready)
• Negotiate for your new seats
• If you do NOT have your footage online... 
• If you DID shoot video and it just needs to be uploaded
• Be prepared to have to move to a new seat
• Upload your footage to Google Photos or Drive 
• Call me over - do NOT download anything
• After showing me you can then
• Propose your new partner (both must be ready)
• Negotiate for your new seats
• If you did NOT shoot any video 
• Be prepared to have to move to a new seat
• Pull out your Storyboard
• While you are waiting for John log in to our Google Classroom and do the assignment titled "What I was thinking"
• SHARE the assignment with your advisor and then turn it to John via Google Classroom
• BE CERTAIN TO COME TO CLASS TOMORROW WITH YOUR FOOTAGE
• Once you are in your new seat
• Clean up the PERIOD DRIVE  if it needs it
• DOWNLOAD your footage to a new folder on your PERIOD DRIVE
• IMPORT your footage into a NEW iMOVIE PROJECT
• Take out your STORYBOARD
• Start EDITING!
• YOUR COMPLETED HOW-TO is due at the end of class WED/THU