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A quick look at some of my favorite resources and some tips for making interesting videos with students based on writing and visual grammar. As Jason Ohler puts, the "new media narrative."TRANSCRIPT
Makin’ Movies
Joe Brennan
http://www.denblogs.com/digital_storytelling
Discovery Education streaming search “afi”
Check out theAmerican Film
Institute’sscreennation.afi.com
The LEARN channel
How? Documentaries “Grilled”
http://sfett.com/html_movie/Ican/grilled.html
How?
News
“Olds” - historical “you are there”
QuickTime™ and aPhoto - JPEG decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
How? Movie trailers
Commercials/PSA’s
Made for TVQuickTime™ and a
Photo - JPEG decompressorare needed to see this picture.
You shoot it, They’ll share it! foxhilites.com
How? Movie trailers
Commercials/PSA’s
Made for TVQuickTime™ and a
Photo - JPEG decompressorare needed to see this picture.
You shoot it, They’ll share it! foxhilites.com
How?
Interviews
Historicalre-enactment
Dramatizeliterature
Visual Grammar A shot is a sentence
“The Quickest Way to Rent”from National Car Rental
Visual Grammar A group of shots is a scene/paragraph
“The Quickest Internship” from National
Visual Grammar
Pans and zooms are run-on sentences
Transitions and effects can be run away commas and conjunctions
Hollywood Grammar Tips
Establishing shot - topic sentence
Close-ups (look for small things)
Two shot -Letterman Super Bowl promo
Establish, Tell, End
Prior knowledge!
Establish, Tell, EndFrank Guttler’s
Google Teachers Academy applicationhttp://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=2jwsSwtBsJg&fmt=
18
Establish
He lifts the laptop
lid and…
…tells us who he is and his
hopes.
Tell
3 things to know
What students achieve
What Google can add
End
Recap, thank youand…
…closes the lidjust like he started
Hollywood Tips
Long shot - establishes context
Zoomed, not zooming
Dolly shot - camera goes to the action
(office chair, skate board, baby stroller)
High angle - looks down
Low angle - looks up
What’s your angle?
What’s your angle?
Powerful vs. Weak
http://www.greatmindsfoundation.org/view_video.php?viewkey=aaf8370ebeda47a1ff1c
“Talent Show”
Getting the Shot
AFI. “LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION! AFI Kindergarten to Twelfth Grade
Screen Education I: What Filmmakers Say (Episode 9 of 9).” Discovery
Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.
com/
Rule of Thirds
It’s nottic-tac-toe
Avoidthe middle
Use the intersectio
ns
Rule of Thirds
“Return of the King”
Rule of Thirds
Is he a clown because…?
http://www.greatmindsfoundation.org/view_video.php?
viewkey=f202f26c1a174c735758
“A Message of Well Being”
Lighting
3 Point Lighting
“LEARN” screennation.afi.com/Learn.aspx?
by=2
Video Tips: homepage.mac.com/jbtv
ali.apple.com (search on video)
Lighting
ScreenNation’s LEARN channelhttp://www.screennation.afi.com/
Watch.aspx?video=743
Sound and more
Storyboarding
Storyboardingcheck the EXTRAS
menu on DVD’s
From “Monsters, Inc.”
“Hey, moron!”
http://netgened.grownupdigital.com/video/dontapscottchallenge1-1
NFLB“No Future Left Behind”
http://netgened.grownupdigital.com/video/no-future-left-behind-
1
Links The American Film Institute screennation.afi.com & afi.edu
The iCan Student Film Festival sfett.com
The Great Minds Foundation www.greatmindsfoundation.org
Discovery Education Streaming www.discoveryeducation.com (search “afi”)
Frank Guttler’s blog www.lightscameralearn.com
Examples: homepage.mac.com/jbtv
netgened.grownupdigital.com
Denblogs.com/digital_storytelling