Students' work

"Little White Rabbit" - by Ms. Helen Jenkins

"Kensuki’s Kingdom" - Unit Plan by Ms. Helen Jenkins

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"Book Talk" by Ms. Michelle Wardrip

Michelle's Lesson Plan


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"Why I love the Tigard Library"  by Ms. Jennie McCarthy

Act I: "Why I love the Tigard Library"

Act II:  More than just books

Act III: Internet Access for Teens

"Editing with Youtube lesson plan" by Ms. Jennie McCarthy

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"Graphic Novels for Young Adults" by Nathan Shoutis

"Digital Storytelling" lesson plan by Nathan Shoutis

Agenda for July 25th

Here is a hand-out I will give out on July 19th.

LIB: 587 Video Production

Instructor: Matt Gilley

Agenda, July 19th, 2013

Introductions:  I am able to assist or discuss class assignments most anytime between now and August 19th, when the assignments are due.
Contact Info:
sylvan.gilley@gmail.com
503-233-0929

Applications of digital video in the classroom and Media Center

Use of digital video cameras and equipment.

Optional Warm-up Assignment: Short Group Video.  Working with a partner/s, plan and produce a short 1-3 minute video that you think would be useful in your (or any) school setting.  Some examples will be discussed during class. 

Production work.

Brief discussion of future assignments. 

• Assignment#1: Individual Video Project: three-five minute video, due by August 19th.
• Assignment #2: Unit or Lesson plan using digital video.  Due by Aug. 19th.
• Assignment #3: online discussions of IVP ideas, and online discussions of your Unit or Lesson Plans.  Due by Aug. 21st.

Editing with iMovie (or Windows Moviemaker or similar software)

• importing
• editing
• exporting or sharing

NOTE: Lab-time may be scheduled with the department, and may be necessary for you to complete the projects if you don't have the required equipment at home. 

LIB: 587 VIDEO PRODUCTION

August 1st

Optional Work Session

If you need one-on-one assistance with any of the assignments, schedule a meeting with the instructor at the iMac lab on campus.  Available meeting times are:

July 26, between 2:30-5:30.

August 1st, between 2:30-5:30.

The IVP is due by the end of August 19th. 

Hopefully you were successful in planning, shooting, and made some progress in editing your project.  The content and topic is completely up to you.  We've discussed some ideas in the previous session. 

• Sharing your videos to the internet.  Compress your video to a format to be shared on youtube or teachertube.
• Post a link to your online content using the blog lib587.blogspot.com

Your Assignments

THREE ASSIGNMENTS due by August 19th
LIB 587

1.  Individual Video Project -- produce a short video on a topic you find useful to your situation.  (A favorite application for school librarians and media-specialists are "book-talks," which publicize and promote children's literature for your students.  See below for some examples.)

Then compress and upload your finished video to Youtube,* teachertube, or similar video-hosting website.
(*Note: You may need to create a youtube account if you don't already have one.  Follow the instructions on youtube.com to create your own account.)

 Example from LIB587 student Jason Higgelkie

Example of a narrative short-film with good shot selections

And here are a few examples of "book-talks" 

2.  Write up a lesson-plan or unit-plan which has, at its core, digital-video in a classroom or library/media-center setting.  Email that plan to the instructor.

Here's another example from LIB-508 alumni Jason Higgelkie


3.  Visit the blog at least one more time to look at the IVP's and Unit-plans submitted by your fellow students.  Leave comments and feedback for them that might be helpful.


And you're done!

COURSE SCHEDULE

LIB: 587 and 508 - Video Production

Instructor: Matt Gilley
July 25th

2:30-5:30

Schedule, assignments, due dates

Applications of digital video in the classroom and Media Center

Use of digital video cameras and equipment.


Assignment #1: Warm-up Video.  Plan and produce a short 1-3 minute video that you think would be useful in your (or any) school setting.  Some examples will be discussed during class.  

Production work, and lunch on your own.

Brief discussion of future assignments. 

• Individual Video Project (IVP): one-five minute video, uploaded to video-hosting website, due by August 9th.

• Unit or Lesson plan using digital video in a school setting.  Due by Aug. 9th.
• Online discussions of IVP ideas, and of your Unit or Lesson Plans.  Due by Aug. 9th.

Editing with iMovie

• importing
• editing
• exporting or sharing

NOTE: Lab-time may be scheduled with the department, and may be necessary for you to complete the projects if you don't have the necessary equipment at home.  

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LIB: 587 VIDEO PRODUCTION

August 1st
2:30-5:30

The IVP is due by August 9th.  

Hopefully you've had some sucess in planning and shooting, and have made some progress in editing your project.  The content and topic is completely up to you.   

•     Instructor will be present in the iMac lab for hands-on help. 
•     Sharing your videos to the internet.  Compress your video to a format to be shared with instructors and fellow students on Youtube, teachertube, blog, email, etc.

SYLLABUS

Here is the official Portland State syllabus for the course.  It's thick with technical and legal language that is very irrelevant to what we'll be doing.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntFh8hpRXe0fWIYWa__nuAqJtaXwQ9IRseePpodkYXs/edit

LIST of SHOTS - Get familiar with these techniques

1. Cut – Anytime the scene changes, or the camera stops and starts recording again is called a "cut."
2.  Shot - the part of a video between two cuts.  A shot is the building block of a film.  A continuous segment of video that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. 

Example of short film demonstrating shot selection

Types of shots: 

3. Long shots - (sometimes referred to as a full shot or a wide shot) typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings.
4. Medium shots - a full-length view of a human subject is called a medium shot. 
5. Close-ups - tightly frames a person or object. The most commonly used are close-ups of actors' faces.
6. Extreme Close-ups – A person’s face, eye, hand, or a small object (like a set of keys) fills the entire screen.
7. The bird's eye shot – overhead looking down.
8. Worm’s eye view – from the ground up.
9. Cutaway - is the interruption of a continuously-recorded action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually followed by a cut back to the first shot.  It can be used to show emotional reactions to the action in the story, or for any other artistic purpose. For example, if the main shot is of a man walking down an alley, possible cutaways may include a shot of a cat on a nearby dumpster or a shot of a woman watching from a window overhead.  Then the camera cuts back to the man walking down the alley.
10. Establishing shot - sets up a scene's setting and/or its participants. Typically it is a shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place.
11. Over the shoulder shot – a shot of someone or something taken over the shoulder of another person. The back of the shoulder and head of this person is used to frame the image of whatever (or whomever) the camera is pointing toward. This type of shot is very common when two characters are having a discussion, 
12. Point of View Shot - is a short scene that shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera). It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something, and a shot showing the character's reaction
13. Reaction shot - this is commonly a type of cutaway shot.  It is where the camera cuts away from the action to show a close-up of a character's face, which is displaying a type of emotional response to that action.  For example: a large, dangerous, venomous snake slithers into Johnny's bedroom; camera cuts away to the Johnny's face as his eyes bug out and his mouth widens into a scream upon seeing the snake.
14. Long Take - Shots with extremely long durations are difficult to do because any mistake would force the filmmaker to start over from the beginning. They are thus only occasionally used.  A film famous for its long cuts include Francis Ford Coppola's “The Godfather” in which the entire first scene is one long take featuring Buonasera describing a murder which occurred.
15. Panning - camera movement from side to side.
16. Trucking/dollying - camera follows the action; movement usually on a rolling tripod.