Guidelines for making a

JuxtaLearn videoAnticipating D3.3 - a pecha kucha

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Guidelines help

Guidelines to making videos help teachers and students because they structure and sequence the important video-making steps of

1. development

2. pre-production,

3. production,

4. post-production,

5. upload and screening

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Three components to JuxtaLearn guidelines

• Teacher resources • Five steps• Performance palette

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Teacher resources are essential:• The teacher guides the

students round the threshold concept of interest, identifying the taxonomy students need to know and use

• The teacher designs the storyboard template with reference to the taxonomy

• Students write the drama script together

Teacher resources make a JuxtaLearn video special

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Video making guidelines: step by step

The teacher resources feed into the development, planning and creation of the video. E.g. • the tricky topic influences initial development, • the taxonomy & storyboard influence pre-

production, • dramatic scripts are essential for production.

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Add the performance palette paints

At different steps, choose from palette.

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Put them together to see how they support the process

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Genre, roles, formats, technology and resources make the performance palette

The performance palette provides advice by

1. suggesting genre

2. prompting for technology use

3. reminding of the roles to consider and perform

4. advocating design resources

5. suggesting performance formats

Should it also have a paint on motivating? And how would that work in exciting students to make a video?

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Genre: style or category of performance

Genre is a means to classify. This paint suggests styles or categories.

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Technology

For example:• Software to edit, Microsoft Movie Maker,

iTunes music, • Chart paper• Video camera / Flip Video / camcorder, digital

recorder• Scanner• Green screen

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Roles

Allocate jobs for everyone.

Get everyone on camera somehow

Technical crew:Someone monitors sound quality.

Someone thinks about camera: focus, exposure, composition

The director thinks about communicating the idea.

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Performance formats

These are some

example formats for the videos,

to stimulate

ideas.

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Production design

Students identify or create or get resources

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Put together all the paints in the palette

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Guidelines: development

• Take a session to discuss what you might do

• Research • What vocabulary has the

teacher given you?• Choose a genre • Plan your visuals on a flipchart• Sketch the storyboard. • Use the teacher’s taxonomy to

identify words to use in the video script.

• Think about what technology to use.

• Devise a pitch so you can talk to people about your ideas

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• Manage project.• Identify who’s doing which

roles – do they match the storyboard?

• Delegate jobs • Check everyone gets a go

at everything• Write a treatment • Check lighting, props,

location • Create a schedule • Be ready for improvised

action. But check the script.

• Identify technology• Think of safety.

Guidelines: pre-production

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Guidelines: production

• Film the main action – checking roles

• Collect other footagee.g. General views (GVs), cutaways

• Consider performance formats to copy

• Collect other assets e.g. graphics, music, stills, stock video footage

• Share multi-media resources on JuxtaLearn web site

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Guidelines: post-production

1.Transfer media onto a computer or table top.

2.Assembly your media & assets into order following the script or storyboard and choosing the best shots & takes, to arrange these in correct order on the timeline.

3.Relook at performance formats

4.The editor will look out for unscripted / improvised shots that may enrich the project.

5.Make a first cut & get feedback

6.Editing is a creative activity but takes a lot of time

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Guidelines: post-production again

• After feedback– Fine tune– Get extra shots / text

• Make a final with titles, graphics, music, voice-over, special effects, colour correction, sound mixing, animation, transitions.

• Get more feedback - tweak if required

• Double-check permissions to use all the materials in film

• Export film in a desired format• Archive project

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Guidelines: upload and screen

• Share with an audience• Have a premiere screening / celebration &

invite everyone involved• Get your film known & shown• Provide multi-media resources on web site for

students to view. • Work out a means to share production with

parents & other externals.• Save and copy this work to the JuxtaLearn

site to document the learning.• Applaud yourselves