Year 10 Thursday 10th September

Good morning, Year 10. Today I am on a course, hoping to get some good ideas for our class project next term. There are two jobs that I want you to work on today:

1. Consultation

For your collections project, you need to "consult the stakeholders". This means to ask questions of the person who owns the collection and anyone else who might care about it. Your goal is to understand the collection as well as possible, and to get some idea of what problems the collector has that you could help with. Good questions start with these words:

• What...
• Why...
• When...
• How...
• Where....

Please write a list of questions for your collector, either my father Frank or a person of your choice. Email your questions to me. If your collector is not Frank, you should also either eamil your collector if you know their email address, or print the questions to take home for homework.

2. Preparation for Multimedia

Next term, we will spend a couple of weeks looking at multimedia, and we will make a story using PhotoStory. You can find the story here. Your job to day is to find (or create using Paint etc) pictures that will let you tell the story. I suggest you use Google images and save the images you find (right-click, save picture...) in a folder called shark story inside your DigiTech folder.

Selecting footage

Selecting footage means making decisions for each video clip we have given you:

1. Do I want to use it at all?
2. Do I want to use all of it?
3. What part(s) do I want to use?

The result of this stage might look like this:

ArtsCentre1: no. Better to use a still, but Art Gallery is not going to attract young people much.

Botanic Gardens: yes, but needs trimming at both ends, to give 10 seconds. Would be good to get a shot of canoes on river.

Interesting discussion: Storyboard before or after selecting footage? If you were taking your own footage, I would suggest storyboarding first. However when you have video clips given to you it makes better sense to decide which are good enough to use and how long they are before storyboarding.

Storyboarding

The idea with storyboarding is that you plan your video, animation or presentation. There are different ways to do this, depending on what you are making and what works for you.
One possible template is provided by the Center for Digital Storytelling. This is a pdf showing ten shots on a page. It has lines for images, transitions, effects, voiceover and soundtrack. If this looks good to you feel free to print it and use it. You can also see an example of a completed storyboard and the story that goes with it.