Zombie blog storyboard

Zombie Journal

By Dan Gibson

Video Project Name: Zombie Journal Shot: Establishing Shot/Zoom in

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The first scene opens with an establishing shot of a classroom door, which leads through the door and toward a lone student. The student is struggling with frustration as a writer. She/he is tired of writing within a journal with no audience to read her work.

Introduction music

These shots are just establishing where the student is located at the beginning of the video.

Video Project Name : Zombie Journal Shot: medium--ex-close up--close up

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Music fades to hear the students thoughts and the writing of the pencil.

Writer: (He/she is writing in their journal and constantly scribbling his/her work and stuck. The writer breaks the pencil and with frustration announces) What’s the point of writing in this journal when no one will ever get a chance to read it!

Student is bored with paper/pencil writing and is getting annoyed with paper/pencil journaling’s non-existent audience.

Video Project Name: Zombie Journal Shot: Various camera angles

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The frustrated writer will be introduced to the idea of blogging. Then, they leave to find a computer and the blog expert throws away the writer’s journal.

Blog Expert: (pops into the room with hearing his/her friends frustration) What’s up? Are you all right?Writer: Yeah, I’m fine, but I’m just sick of writing for nothing. I like writing but I want people to read my writing. That’s never going to happen with my paper, pencil writings in my journal. [See Notes for script]

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In this section, the journal is tossed into the garbage by the student that is blog-savvy. In the garbage the journal becomes a “zombie journal.”

Erie music played through the “zombification” process.

Logging into and Getting Started with Kidblogs

This is a transition image which will list the title of the proceeding screencast on getting started with Kidblogs.

Video Project Name: Zombie Journal Screen Shot: Sceencast

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Blog Expert: First thing you need is a computer with Internet access. Click on a browser like Internet Explorer…[see notes for script]

In this section, students will be introduced to logging in and getting started with the Kidblog’s dashboard.

Background music is quiet and students are narrating the screencast.

Video Project Name: Zombie Journal Shot: POV of the Zombie Journal

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This is a transition image which will list the title of the proceeding screencast on creating a blog post.

Zombie Journal is on the loose and trying to find its owner for some new brains and ideas. This section is also acting as a transition slide for the next screencast, which provides a title for what is to come.

Creepy sound effects are playing, while the journal calls out for brains and ideas.

BRAINS! IDEAS!

Creating a Post

Video Project Name: Zombie Journal Shot: screencast

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Blog Expert: Now let’s create a post. Click the “New Post” tab… [See notes for script]

Narration over the screencast.

In this section, the blog expert will describe how to create a post and/or complete an existing one.


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This is a transition image which will list the title of the proceeding screencast on uploading media to a post.

Zombie Journal is on the loose and trying to find its owner for some new brains. This section is also acting as a transition slide for the next screencast, which provides a title for what is to come.

Creepy sound effects are playing, while the journal calls out for brains.

BRAINS! Organization!

Upload Media

Thoughts!


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[See notes for script]

In this section, you students will witness how to upload or insert pictures or videos into a blog post.

Screencast with narration about uploading/inserting media.


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This is a transition image which will list the title of the proceeding screencast on creating hyperlinks within a post.



BRAINS! Sentence

Fluency

Making a Hyperlink

Wow Words!


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Screencast with narration about creating hyperlinks.

In this part of the video, the narrator will describe how to create a hyperlink.


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This is a transition image which will list the title of the proceeding screencast on commenting on other student posts.



BRAINS! Conventions!

Making a Comments

Voice!


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Screencast with narration on making comments on other blogs.


The narrator will be describing how to leave a comment on other blog posts. In addition, some comment tips will be added.

Video Project Name: Zombie Journal Shot: various camera angles

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If only I didn’t throw away my journal. I

could have just blogged with those

writings.

In this section, the students are finalizing their thoughts on blogging and going over some safety tips for using the Internet.

This will be a dialogue section of the video with various camera angles.

Video Project Name: Zombie Journal Shot: various camera angles

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Zombified or not, her journal returns to the writer.

This will be a dialogue section of the video with various camera angles.

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