LHS-TV & Films - Past class activity blog

day 35

11/19/2014

Watched and critiqued Short News Stories
Common mistakes:

poor lighting
too much headroom
lacked focus
show and tell soundbites with BRoll

day 34

11/17/2014

1. All students should be working on their FINAL News Package assignment. They have A LOT to do.

2. Students should be working on ANY of the following steps listed here. If students are not working on any part of this list, they are misusing their time, so please write their name down for me.

Work on the LHS-TV // Spot Feature Planning Sheet in Google Docs
Send emails, call or contact via social media the people they plan on interviewing to set up a time to record the interview and BRoll.
Research their subjects online, ask friends, family, or people they know to get background info
Record their interview
Record their BRoll
Import ANY footage they have already recorded.
Begin editing any footage imported.
Watch any and all examples they can.
Go through ALL of the links included in the FINAL News package Google Doc assignment.

*** If students say they just CAN’T do anything else for their project (which won’t be true) tell them no problem, they MUST go out and:

Practice shooting BRoll – Wide, Medium, Tight, and WALLDO of three different actions
Practice shooting an interview – compose the shot in the rule of thirds and practice interviewing a partner in class.
Edit this practice footage together
Reshoot and re-edit any portion of their WALLDO or Short News package projects

Students MAY leave the classroom to record their footage, but they MUST sign out using the attached sign out sheet

day 33

11/12/2014

Continuing editing Short News Packages
Share via Google Drive with Mr. Goble when you are finished

day 32

11/10/2014

Learn how to edit our short news packages
Watch this video here as a model of what is expected
Script for video

NAT Sound/BRoll
Soundbite/interview on cam
Sequences of W-M-T/WALLDO
Soundbite/interview on cam
NAT Sound/BRoll

day 31

11/6/2014

1. All students should be working on their Short News Package assignment. They have A LOT to do.

2. Students should be working on ANY of the following steps listed here. If students are not working on any part of this list, they are misusing their time, so please write their name down for me.

Remind them ALL footage (interview and BRoll) should be completed NO LATER than this Sunday November 9th.
If they cannot get all of their footage by Sunday, they MUST change subjects and select a subject they WILL get all the footage for by Sunday.
Work on the LHS-TV // Spot Feature Planning Sheet in Google Docs
Send emails, call or contact via social media the people they plan on interviewing to set up a time to record the interview and BRoll.
Research their subjects online, ask friends, family, or people they know to get background info
Record their interview
Record their BRoll
Import ANY footage they have already recorded.
Begin editing any footage imported.
Watch any and all examples they can.
Go through ALL of the links included in the Short News package Google Doc assignment.

*** If students say they just CAN’T do anything else for their project (which won’t be true) tell them no problem, they MUST go out and:

Practice shooting BRoll – Wide, Medium and Tight of three different actions
Practice shooting an interview – compose the shot in the rule of thirds and practice interviewing a partner in class.
Edit this practice footage together
Reshoot and re-edit any portion of their WALLDO project

Students MAY leave the classroom to record their footage, but they MUST sign out using the attached sign out sheet

day 30

11/4/2014

Watch and critique WALLDO projects
Begin Short News Package
All filming MUST be completed by Sunday November 9th
Short News Package scoring guide
LHS-TV Spot Feature Planning Sheet

day 29

10/31/2014

DURING CLASS

Edit WALLDO projects
Follow this required sequence (this is the exact sequence as your sample video and follows the WALLDO acronym. You only need to use ONE of each WALLDO shot you recorded. For example, you recorded 2 Wide shots, so you nay have to select 1 to add to your project. You recorded to Angled shots. Therefore, you only need to select 1 of those Angled shots to include in your project....and so on.
Use only the BEST 3-5 seconds of each shot
Order of shots are:

Wide
Angled
Low
Linking
Depth
Opposite***
Last shot after Opposite should be your interview shot WITH audio saying their name and spelling it.
(include the entire clip of the person saying their name, even if it exceeds 5 seconds.

Special editing instructions

Detach and delete the natural sound audio from your WALLDO shots
Add music by selecting the music and sound in the toolbar in FCPX. Once there, select "iLife Sound Effects" - Jingles - (and then select one of those songs.) Click and drag it under your shots in the timeline and adjust the volume accordingly as I taught you.
When you have completed the entire video, go to the "Show Share Destinations" button above the tool bar on the far right (arrow coming out of the square) - select Apple Devices 1080p - change the title to (your name) WALLDO - select next - save to the Desktop - and share with Goble through Google Drive,

day 28

10/29/2014

Student’s will be videotaping and editing their projects.
Students may sign out on the board where they are going if they leave class to videotape.
Both partners need to record their OWN footage and their OWN sequence of shots. Remember, you need TWO different action shots for EACH WALLDO shot.
Partners may not use the same footage for their projects
Both partners need to finish recording all of their footage by the end of class today.
Once you are finished record, follow the steps to IMPORT your footage from your SD card into Final Cut Pro X.
Begin editing and follow this required sequence (this is the exact sequence as your sample video and follows the WALLDO acronym. You only need to use ONE of each WALLDO shot you recorded. For example, you recorded 2 Wide shots, so you nay have to select 1 to add to your project. You recorded to Angled shots. Therefore, you only need to select 1 of those Angled shots to include in your project....and so on.
Use only the BEST 3-5 seconds of each shot

Wide
Angled
Low
Linking
Depth
Opposite
*** Last shot after Opposite should be your interview shot WITH audio saying their name and spelling it.
(include the entire clip of the person saying their name, even if it exceeds 5 seconds.

Special editing instructions

Detach and delete the natural sound audio from your WALLDO shots
Add music by selecting the music and sound in the toolbar in FCPX. Once there, select "iLife Sound Effects" - Jingles - (and then select one of those songs.) Click and drag it under your shots in the timeline and adjust the volume accordingly as I taught you.
When you have completed the entire video, go to the "Show Share Destinations" button above the tool bar on the far right (arrow coming out of the square) - select Apple Devices 1080p - change the title to (your name) WALLDO - select next - save to the Desktop - and share with Goble through Google Drive,

day 27

10/27/2014

Special guest reporter from KMOV (and Ladue class of 2007) Alexis Zotos
Alexis spoke to the class about her journey through becoming a journalist and offered advice on shooting video and getting interviews
Students began shooting WALLDO project, and include an interview composition and record "say your name and spell it."
Students were required to pick a different partner to work with.
WALLDO stands for:

Wide
Angled
Low
Linking
Depth
Opposite

day 26

10/22/2014

Learned Final Cut Pro X
Practiced editing by creating the "Circus Wagon" project
Edited our video footage of Wide, Medium Tight, and interview composition
Shared videos through Google Drive
Watched and critiqued
Shared the WALLDO project, which we will begin on Monday October 27th
Sample WALLDO video