Intention Established and Documented: Confusion and Anxiety
Training Engaged and Documented (WeVideo.com): Shots that were suppose to put you in the eyes of a student (POV) and cuts to convey confusion and that everything is the same
Short Film with Beginning Middle and End (To help create basic edits): Beginning wake pov, middle, get prepared, end school
Basic Editing Techniques Used and Documented: A standard cut (first cut), a smash cut, jump cut, and a match cut (second cut), standard cut (3rd cut), fade in/fade out cut (fourth cut)
WHY
My cuts are suppose to show how waking up to the feeling of unmotivation feels, especial how it feels to me, and how the days feel to fast but also extremely slow
HOW
Create an autobiographical short film about your COVID learning experience (30 to 60 seconds) with at least 4 types of edits
This film will help us get to know each other and what we are experiencing a little better
No copyrighted material
ONLY student original work, including music
Edit with WeVideo.com
EXAMPLE
Set a creative intention
Make viewer ‘feel’ my COVID truth
Identify the tension
Daily COVID learning experience
Setting
School and stress
LOGLINE
A boy feels anxious and confused going through the day
Techniques to possibly be used
Standard Cut / Hard Cut – no meaning or feeling, immersive, advanced story
Series Jump Cut – pushes time forward, gives energy/urgency, cuts inside same shot, deliberate passing of time, similar to the montage
Montage – the passage of time, quick transformation by a character, underscored music (Rocky)
Cutting on Action – cut while the subject is in action: hard and fast, slow and deliberate (throwing something, turn, going through the door)
Smash Cut – abrupt, waking up from an intense nightmare, intense to quiet/quiet to intense
Fade In/Fade Out – Dissolving to or from black
Shot List (Use phone or Chromebook) Clips that I need to record (with phone or Chromebook)
21 seconds of POV walking
14 seconds of a waking up
6 seconds of staring
23 seconds of typing (fade to next scene)
18 seconds of class
8 seconds of end card
ASSESSMENT
RUBRIC for Preparation and Publication
PROFESSIONALISM: GOAL SETTING (Intention for the film)
TECHNOLOGY/PROFESSIONALISM: Blog portfolio publishing
WRITING: Complete sentences proper grammar and spelling