The document outlines the requirements for a student video project, including producing a 3-5 minute edited video on a course-related topic that demonstrates video production skills and includes interviews, text overlays, sound, and a 500-600 word accompanying article. It provides guidance on shooting techniques like establishing shots, angles, and a 5-shot sequence to tell a story visually. Students are instructed to analyze example videos based on their use of these techniques.

1. VIDEO REPORT

2. IMPORTANT
Video Story Due
• 3-5 minutes
• Must contain a 5 shot sequence
• Edited interview clips, textual supers, transitions,
added sound
• Creative tweet with a link to the post
December
1
Thursday
DATES

3. VIDEO PROJECT
THE IDEA BEHIND IT:
THE CHALLENGE:
• Demonstrate your understanding & mastery of video
editing & production concepts discussed in class
• Demonstrate your visual storytelling skills
• Create a 3-5 minute news video on topic of blog
• Video shot & edited by you (5 step sequence)
• Include 10 edits (min), text, transitions, sound
• Embed on blog
• Write 500-600 word news story with research & links

4. VIDEO PROJECT
EXPECTATIONS:
full grading criteria on back of syllabus
INSTRUCTIONS:
On back of syllabus

5. + =
PHOTO
ESSAY
AUDIO
REPORT
VIDEO
REPORT
DIGITAL JOURNALISM

6. STORY VISUALLY
TELLING A
REQUIRES GREAT FOOTAGE

7. • HOOK AUDIENCE IN FIRST 20 SEC.
• CAPTURE BEGINNING, MIDDLE, END
• USE SHORT CLIPS (LESS BORING)
• ONE CENTRAL IDEA
• FIND GOOD CHARACTERS
• CONNECT VISUALS TO NARRATIVE
• SHOW WHAT SUBJECTS ARE
TALKING ABOUT

8. What do you think of the KVUE footage?

9. • HOOK AUDIENCE IN FIRST 20 SEC.
• CAPTURE BEGINNING, MIDDLE, END
• USE SHORT CLIPS (LESS BORING)
• ONE CENTRAL IDEA
• FIND GOOD CHARACTERS
• CONNECT VISUALS TO NARRATIVE
• SHOW WHAT SUBJECTS ARE
TALKING ABOUT

10. ESTABLISHING
SHOTS
ESTABLISH THE SETTING/LOCATION

11. ESTABLISHING SHOT
Blank Shot

12. Establishing shot for the KVUE story

13. BOOKEND
SHOTS
GOOD OPENERS/ENDERS

14. DIFFERENT
ANGLES

15. WIDE SHOT:

16. MEDIUM
SHOT:

17. CLOSE-UP
SHOT:

18. Wide
Close-up
Medium
RULE OF
THUMB

19. OVER-THE-SHOULDER
SHOT:

20. SHOT
5SEQUENCE

21. SEQUENTIAL SHOOTING

22. CLOSE-UP
HANDS:
1.

23. CLOSE-UP OF HANDS

24. CLOSE-UP OF HANDS

25. CLOSE-UP
FACE:
2.

26. WIDE
SHOT:
3.

27. WIDE SHOT

28. OVER-THE-SHOULDER
SHOT:
4.

29. OVER-THE-SHOULDER

30. CREATIVE
SHOT:
5.

31. CREATIVE SHOT

32. FINISHED STORY

33. DO YOU RECOGNIZE ANY SHOTS?
1: Close-up hands; 2. Close-up face; 3. Wide shot;
4. Over-the-shoulder; 5. Creative shot;
wide, medium, close-up

34. DO YOU RECOGNIZE ANY SHOTS?
1: Close-up hands; 2. Close-up face; 3. Wide shot;
4. Over-the-shoulder; 5. Creative shot

35. DO YOU RECOGNIZE ANY SHOTS?
1: Close-up hands; 2. Close-up face; 3. Wide shot;
4. Over-the-shoulder; 5. Creative shot

36. RULE
THIRDS
of

37. ZOOM
WITH YOUR LEGS
NOT YOUR LENS !

38. ZOOM
FIRST, THEN RECORD

39. MUST
HAVE
SHOTS
WHAT ARE YOUR

40. SAMPLE STUDENT VIDEO

41. INTERVIEWING
BASICS

42. 1. SELECT GOOD LOCATION
2. JOT DOWN QUESTIONS
3. NO VERBAL FEEDBACK

43. In-Class Work
• Find a video report on a news site you like
• Watch the video and:
• On a piece of paper write down the URL and
• evaluate the video’s use of shots:
• does it adhere to the 50/25/25 rule of thumb
• does it adhere to the 5 shot sequence
• if not, what types of shots is it composed of?
• does it provide a hook in the
fi
rst 20 seconds?
• evaluate the video’s use of the rule of thirds
• Be sure to hand in your answers before you leave

45. Misconception
New technologies aren’t perfect:
• unpredictable
• buggy
• will be frustrating
• require major time investment
• require lots of trial and error
• will require troubleshooting
about learning to use new technologies

46. A problem
now what??
Troubleshoot:
• Google it: use description of problem as keywords
Still no luck?
• Change keywords
• Change them again!
• Follow threads in forums/blogs
• Post to a forum/blog

47. A problem
Change your attitude:
• Yes, you can
fi
x it
• No, you don’t need to be a geek to
fi
x it
• No, you’re not the only one with the problem
• All you need is search skills
• Yes, it will require time
• Yes, it will be frustrating
now what??

48. resourceful
You need to be
to succeed in this
Information Society

49. The Place to which Lost Data go
Once upon a midnight dreary,
fi
ngers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled up high and wasted paper on the
fl
oor,
Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets.
Having reached the bottom line I took a
fl
oppy from the drawer,
I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store,
Only this and nothing more.
Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing,
Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
"Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!"
One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices undesired, ones I'd never faced before.
Carefully I weighed the choices as the disk made impish noises.
The cursor
fl
ashed, insistent, waiting, baiting me to type
some more.
Clearly I must press a key, choosing one and nothing more,
From "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

50. With
fi
ngers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee, timidly, I pressed a key.
But on the screen there still persisted words appearing as before.
Ghastly grim they blinked and taunted, haunted, as my patience wore,
Saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
I tried to catch the chips off guard, and pressed again, but twice as hard.
I pleaded with the cursed machine: I begged and cried and then I swore.
Now in mighty desperation, trying random combinations,
Still there came the incantation, just as senseless as before.
Cursor blinking, angrily winking, blinking nonsense as before.
Reading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted.
Getting up I turned away and paced across the of
fi
ce
fl
oor.
And then I saw a dreadful sight: a lightning bolt cut through the night.
A gasp of horror overtook me, shook me to my very core.
The lightning zapped my previous data, lost and gone forevermore.
Not even, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
To this day I do not know the place to which lost data go.
What demonic nether world us wrought where lost data will be stored,
Beyond the reach of mortal souls, beyond the ether, into black holes?
But sure as there's C, Pascal, Lotus,Ashton-Tate and more,
You will be one day be left to wander, lost on some Plutonian shore,
Pleading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

51. SAMPLE STUDENT VIDEO