AOIT MEDIA ARTS CURRICULUM CALENDAR
    Workplace Rubrics • Video Project Rubrics
    IMPORTANT TO KNOW:
  • You are required to put in 90 minutes per week in out-of-class time.
  • For most of Fall Semester you will be working on team projects that are due every two weeks. At the end of each team project you will assess yourself and assess your teammates on workplace skills (problem solving, communication, teamwork & leadership).
  • By Thanksgiving break, your team will complete a Person-on-the-Street Interview video.
  • By Winter break, your team will complete a Public Service Announcement video.
  • By the end of Fall Semester students will be on teams for the Spring semester Adobe Youth Voices project. Outlines or scripts/storyboards will be completed so teams are ready to shoot at the start of spring semester.
    ALSO VERY IMPORTANT:
  • Weekly Broadcasts & Commercials: Students are responsible for producing broadcasts, videotaping school activities, and creating commercials. This is part of your grade!
  • Workplace & Interview Prep: A big part of 11th grade AOIT is preparing students for Summer Internships (and job interviews and workplace preparation).

WEEK 1 / MAKING THE MOST OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR
    GET THINKING
  • What are your strengths?
  • How can you use those strengths to contrbut to a team?
  • What do you need from teammates?
  • If you could speak to a million people what would you say?
    VIEW & CONSIDER
  • Slip of the Tongue
  • A Girl Like Me
    UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS
  • What is a Storyboard?
  • Dissect a TV Commercial
  • Homework: Create storyboard for an actual TV commercial

WEEKS 1-2 / CAMERA
    GET THINKING
  • What do you need to see (place in the frame)?
  • What is the impact of cropping an image? of screen size?
  • What does Point of View Shot Communicate?
 
    UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS
  • Screen Direction / 180-degree Line
  • Key Light, Fill Light, Back Light
  • White Balance
    SHOT LIST
    Each team will videotape the following shots in this order:
  • Wide Shot
  • Medium Shot
  • Close-up
  • Point of View
  • Two-Shot
  • Over the Shoulder
  • Pan
  • Tracking
  • Tilt
  • Low Angle
  • High Angle

WEEKS 2-3 / INTRODUCTION TO EDITING

    INTRODUCTION TO FINALCUT PRO
  • Window: Browser, Canvas, Timeline
  • Three-Point Edit: In, Out, Input
  • Placing Clips in Timeline: Insert, Overwrite, Replace, Fit-to-Fill
  • Slip / Slide / Roll / Ripple
  • Applying Effects: Keyframes & Tweens
    VIEW
  • "Cutting Edge" about film editing
  • Classic 1940s Movie: Invisible Edits, Real Time
  • THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY 3-Way Gunfight Scene, Pace & Screen Size
  • PSYCHO Shower Scene — Inference: Suggest something without showing it
    GET THINKING
  • How does 1 + 1 = Something Else?
  • How do current-day media-viewing habits effect editing choices?
  • When are invisible edits best?
  • When are jump cuts appropriate?
  • Create Storyboard that Infers (rather than shows)
 
    UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS
  • Change Sizes, Change Angles, Maintain Directions
  • 180-degree Line
  • Invisible Edit
  • Jump Cut / New Wave / Montage
  • Cutting to Music/to Audio
  • Inference: Suggest something without showing it

WEEKS 4-11 / SHORT VIDEO EXERCISES
    EDIT TO MUSIC (weeks 4-5)
  • Editing on the downbeat
  • How does music color what you see? INFERRED ACTION (weeks 6-7)
  • Can you show something without actually showing it?
  • Edit from (carefully constructed) storyboard
  • How can a series of images combine? (1+1+1+1=much more than 4)
    PAY ATTENTION TO:
  • When does an edit work?
  • When is an edit clumsy?
  • What shots will edit together?
  • 180-degree line
  • Change screen size, change angle
 
    EXPRESSIVE (weeks 8-9)
  • Create a poem, then edit to voice over
  • Images that communicate ideas, feelings
    INSTRUCTIVE (weeks 10-11)
  • "How-To" Video
  • Develop a step-by-step storyboard
  • What camera angle will show the

WEEKS 12-14 / PERSON-ON-THE-STREET INTERVIEWS
    STEPS
  • Class selects topic (Broad Umbrella Topic)
  • Each team develops 3 questions
  • Team Practices Jobs:
    • Director
    • Cameraperson
    • Sound Person
    • Interviewer
    • Tape Logger
    • Wrangler (gets interview subjects, releases)
  • Collect B-Roll/Cutaways
  • Other Assets: Sound, Titles
    GET THINKING
  • What makes a good interview?
  • Wording Active Questions
  • How can opinions be presented in a visual medium?
 
    UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS
  • Video and Audio quality matters
  • Subject needs to repeat the question
  • Talking Heads can be boring
  • B-roll needs to illuminate/enhance audio

WEEKS 15-17 / PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS
    STEPS
  • Class selects topic (Broad Umbrella Topic)
  • Each team develops a focused topic
  • Write Script
  • Create Storyboard / Storyboard must be followed
  • Assets: Voiceover, Music, Sound, Titles
  • Rough Cut
  • Final Edit
    GET THINKING
  • How are ideas marketed to American teenagers?
  • How can you package ideas effectively?
 
    UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS
  • You can influence viewers

WEEKS 18-19 / DEVELOP ADOBE VIDEO PROJECT
    PREPARATION
  • Each student develops an idea & a pitch
  • Students form 3-person teams
  • Documentaries develop questions & outline
  • Scripted Videos prepare script & storyboard
  • Create shot list
    GET THINKING
  • Your completed video might be seen by a million people someday
  • (Revisit) What would you want to communicate to a million people?
 
    UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS
  • Video productions are expensive and complex they need advance preparation and organization