I have been teaching Photography in Espoo International School since September 2012, and I will give an overview of the lessons on video production and editing with year 9 for the last three weeks. I have this class once a week on Tuesdays for a double lesson (2x 45 minutes).
The objective of these few lessons was to show students the basics of filming with the video camera and also editing in Adobe Premier Elements. This was in collaboration with a Drama group students that were working on a Drama piece performance.
Week 1 (2x45min)
Objective of the lesson:
Understanding the process of
creating moving images. We looked at:
- Camera settings
- Frame rates
- Video format
- Camera moves
The first week was an introduction to using a video camera, so I demonstrated with a slide show: camera controls, frame rates, camera angles, importance of video format etc.
There was time for questions and the discussion as well. Students were curious about frame rates and I guess this perhaps comes from the more digital understanding of video technologies, such as video games where frame rates are much faster. In analogue broadcasting, which I was focusing on, the frame rates appeared very slow compared to video games.
The slide show can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-hCn_983CnuWWJqdTRHQkNZUjA/edit?usp=sharing
Week 2 (2x45min)
This was then followed by a practical lesson on actual filming with video. I was inspired by a lecture on Immersive Digital Installations by Katariina Nyberg that I saw during my observations at Aalto University. Katariina filmed a symphony orchestra players from different angles and sometimes also with individual players having the camera attached to their bodies for a truly immersive view of their hand movements, whilst playing instruments etc.
I divided the students in groups since we have 5 digital cameras that can be used at School and also the drama group was divided in 3 sub-groups so that we were able to film at the same time, different parts of the performance.
The students were working on applying some of the techniques I showed them such as moving around the scene and filming from different angles. Some of the shots were taken outside which was at times difficult since we did not have an external microphone at school, and there is a lot of background noise that can interfere with the speech. In addition to that, it was not so easy to always come very close to the performers because we would have lost the overall sense of the scene etc.
Week 3 (2x45min)
Objective of the lesson is to understand the basics of video editing in Adobe Premier Elements 11. We looked at:
- How to add video files and other media
- Project assets
- Timeline
- Trimming and splitting clips
- Time remapping
In the following week I divided the students in groups that were still filming and the group that would be editing the videos. We have limited external space on the school computers which totals only 50GB for the whole of the school. The whole of this space would have been taken by our video footage. Luckily we had two external hard drives, but this also meant that I could only involve two students in editing. I showed some videos and slides on main points of Adobe Premier. These students have already had prior knowledge of this software as they wanted to use it for one of the Photography projects in order to animate a sequence of images.
In the following week the students that were not filming nor editing joined an art class as our last lesson of the year.
Editing in Adobe Premier Elements 11, materials that I used can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-hCn_983CnuWGFlLXhhS1g3Vm8/edit?usp=sharing
Additional training video material was shown from Lynda.com. I subscribe to their monthly service, so these videos can be only viewed with the subscription:
Grisetti. S. Up and Running with Premiere Elements 11. Date of retrieval 3.04.2014
http://www.lynda.com/sdk/Premiere-Elements-tutorials/Up-Running-Premiere-Elements-11/109763-2.html
Assessment:
The Photography class (also using digital images) was assessed with IB school criteria. The last video project was more of an optional project as it was an extra grade or a way for me to give an opportunity to students to improve their final grade. I have included the link to my project customized assessment criteria . Also the link to general information on Assessment procedures in IB schools and a link to official IB Art Middle years program that is valid from September 2014. There is also the link to my Unit plans for the period of two years with year 8 and 9, with different projects in Photography and Technology, that I worked on with students and the assessment criteria that was used.
IB - MYP Unit planners for the two year Photography and Technology electives, schemes of work.
IB Assessment criteria adopted to Community and Service Photography project :
IB Art Middle years programme that is valid from September 2014
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