Video techniques in the classroom

Moving Pictures AKA Video

Image: My new video camerahttp://flickr.com/photos/ezalis/77430740/

Thanks to Joe Brennan

http://homepage.mac.com/jbtv/Personal4.html

Agenda

• Why Video?

• Basic Terms

• Formats/Genres

• Classroom Applications

• Technical Issues: Cameras/Software

• Special Techniques

http://goo.gl/Fj3IH

Why?

Helps students better express their deepest understanding of core

classroom content

http://www.afi.edu/docs/missionresearch.pdf

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24hours of video per minute

hours of video per minute35

...the professional language of the

futureNY times

Consumption CreationReading

Listening

Viewing

Writing

Speaking

Representing

Consumption Creation

ReadingListening

Viewing

WritingSpeaking

Representing

Consumption Creation

ReadingListening

Viewing

WritingSpeaking

Representing

10cc licensed flickr photo by jayRaz: http://flickr.com/photos/shnakepup/2935979173/

The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who can't.Elizabeth Daly

Terms

Good video mirrors good writing

A shota sentence

A shota sentence

Shots

A sequencea paragraph

A sequencea paragraph

Transitions and Effects

commas and conjunctions

Cutmost common

transition. Like a period.

Pan and Zooms

Run on sentences

Pan and Zooms

Run on sentences

Formats

Types of Video

• * Talking head video

• * Screencasts

• * Caught on tape

• * The Slide Show

• * The Mash Up

• * The Edited Movie

Let me see you

Talking Head

ScreenCasting

Illuminated Text

http://www.awaytoteach.net/?q=illtexts

The Mashup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQO6OmFAjR8

archive.org

Image Voiceovers

jamendo.com

flickr.com

The Interview

http://www.xtranormal.com

5x5

Your turn

closed51until@photos.flickr.com

Create a 5 second clip of something happening around you or outside your building

Classroom Apps

Storyboarding

http://video.prairiesouth.ca/video/284/Estimating+and+Counting

Assessment

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34022817@N00/5083453771/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68687429@N00/4411127056/

Concept Attainment

Self Expression

More ideas?

http://jonorech.wikispaces.com/

Equipment

Cameras

Cameras

Cameras

Cameras

Cameras

Cameras

Software

• Windows Movie Maker

• Adobe Premiere Elements

• Pinnacle Studio

• Video Spin

• iMovie 06

• iMovie 11

• Final Cut Express

jaycut.com

Basics

Lighting

Video Tips: homepage.mac.com/jbtvali.apple.com (search on video)

Lighting

Sound

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23478852@N00/4376943695/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/33877233@N06/3254923330/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48600103384@N01/4436577482/

Basic Shots

Basic Shots

Basic Shots

• Long Shot ( LS )

Basic Shots

• Long Shot ( LS )

• Medium Shot ( MS )

Basic Shots

• Long Shot ( LS )

• Medium Shot ( MS )

• Closeup Shot ( CU )

Basic Shots

• Long Shot ( LS )

• Medium Shot ( MS )

• Closeup Shot ( CU )

• Extreme Closeup Shot ( XCU )

Rule of Thirds

It’s nottic-tac-toe

Avoidthe middle

Use the intersection

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Techniques

Playing With Angles

Time Lapse

It’s Magic

http://www.youtube.com/user/videomaker

You Tell Your Story

http://goo.gl/tuGwB

Keep it short

Have a plan

Edit and edit more

Use exemplars and deconstruct

Share and revise

@shareski

shareski@gmail.com

shareski.ca

Please, please,

please contact me

Thank you