Guiding a class wide videography project

1. Guiding a Class-Wide Videography Unit
Amy Zschaber
www.amyzschaber.com / artful.artsy.amy@gmail.com
1. Generate interest
2. Get permission from administration
3. Vote on themes
4. Decide on one theme
5. Collaborate with ELA teachers for writing (writing does not have to come from your class)
6. Narrow writing selection samples
7. Vote on final writing sample; this becomes your script
8. Get permission to use script from student author
9. Assign roles to students
a. Directors (1-4 students)
b. Photographers (1-4 students; can also overlap with director)
c. Video editor (1-2 students)
d. Sound editor (1-2 students)
e. Costume designers / makeup artists (3-4 students)
f. Prop designers (1-4 students)
g. Actors (everyone else)
10. Meet with directors; break down script into scene chunks
a. Make an outline with scenes
b. Make a storyboard
c. Decide which roles need to present in each scene
d. Review scenes and roles
e. Outline actor roles and scenes
11. Hold auditions for roles (directors decide / you are final word). You may have to explain how
actors do not have to be the same as the role (“Let’s get Amy for this role because she’s an
orphan like the role!”)
12. Post audition results
13. Call actors homes and talk to parents about role and putting on web
14. Send home permission slips to publish students on web (faces and names)
15. Meet with directors and photographers to outlines scenes
16. Meet with directors, costume, and makeup students to outline duties
17. Have 1-3 acting rehearsals; at least 1 in full costume
18. Shoot the scenes (will take about 100 x’s longer than you think; make multiple takes of each
scene)
19. Directors meet with video editor and edit the video
20. Directors, video editor and sound editor meet to add sound
21. Directors and video editor add credits
22. Video is uploaded to web and shared with community
Example of our final product: https://vimeo.com/66076983