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Lessons of the Moving Image
Digital Storytelling
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Communicating messages
Students as consumers & producers
Rich learning tasks, HOT tasks
Last session focused on the teaching & learning
of digital stories.
• Rubrics to design in intended learning tasks and
expected standards for students.
• This session is more on making & editing videos.
Digital Stories
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Fiction
Documentary
School events
Personal
Biographical
Exhibitions
Editorial or Opinion Statements
Debates
Instructional
Reports
Others
Video products
• Videos from Net or DVDs
• Mashups or re-edits:
Mashup (digital), a digital media file containing any or all
of text, graphics, audio, video, and animation, which
recombines and modifies existing digital works to create
a derivative work (Wikipedia).
• Student and teacher created videos
Sources
• Mark Dixon’s movies for DEECD’s Showcase,
especially Slowmation, other movies on
http://epotential.education.vic.gov.au/showcase
• Kym Nadebaum’s notes & videos from digital
storytelling workshops in Melbourne & Ararat,
2009 available on
http://coaches-commonroom.wikispaces.com
• Atomic Learning Video Storytelling Guide
• Jo Tate, Ultranet Coach, Digital Storytelling kit
Including
• Martha Mollison Producing Videos 2003
• Media Studies courses over the years.
Same but different movies
• From a teacher’s point of view, what are the messages
for us from viewing these two movies?
• Please add some thoughts.
The Analogy
Words/phrase
Sentence/paragraph
Chapter
and video Shot
and video sequence
and video scenes
Both need plans and to follow rules and
conventions to be effective
communication.
Ref: Kym Nadebaum
Shot/Sequence/Scene/Story
Mindmap software: Free
Mind, Inspiration, Kidsiration
Mollison Producing Videos p78
1. Closeup biker puts on helmet
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2. Long Shot biker rides towards
camera, race banner in
background
3. Medium shot profile biker to
screen right
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4. Very Long Shot biker rides to
screen right
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5. Closeup boot on pedal
6. Close up exhaust pipe shooting
flame
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7. Long shot from rear biker rides
towards finish line
8. Closeup biker’s head as he
passes finish line flag
Long Shots, Establishing Shots, Perspective
Shots
Medium Shots, Framing Shots
Closeups, focusing shots
Extreme Closeups, the details
Cutaway Shots
Camera angles
• High angle
• Low angle
Point of View
Point of View shots
Over the shoulder shot
Composition: The Rule of Thirds
And……… head space, talking/action/look/nose space, eye
position, not making cuts at natural joints
The Rule of Thirds, horizons
Shooting Interviews
Ref: Kym Nadebaum
Space for sketch of shot
Space for description of
shot
Space for script or audio
description
View movie Slowmation
by Mark Dixon, DEECD
Aspects to consider:
1. Types of shots used in sequence
2. Composition of shots
3. How the story was told
4. How interviews were shot
5. Consider what the storyboard may have
looked like.
6. Was the story effectively communicated?
View movie Slowmation
by Mark Dixon, DEECD
• There is a movie being played in a small
window, it has been compressed
enormously to fit onto Elluminate. A CD is
being sent to all schools and it has a much
better quality version of the movie.
• Suggestion is to have the CD and play it
before you go on further with listening to
the recording.
Shot Worksheet: What shot was that?
Tick the shots as you see them appear.
Roughly how long are they?
Establishing shot ES
Middle Shot MS
Closeup CU
Extreme Close Up XCU
Over the shoulder
shotOS
Point of View POV
Cut ins CUT
Pans P
Zooms Z
Task 1: Shot Types & Time
What did you find about the frequency of different
types of shots?
What did you find about the duration of the different
shots?
Type in your answers.
Sequence Worksheet:
Select an sequence and try to record the shots/time.
LS, MS, CU, XCU, CA (cutaway), POV (point of view),
pan, tilt, zoom.. How many shots in the sequence?
1: First in sequence:
2. Next shot:
3. Next shot:
4. Next shot:
5. Next shot:
6. Next shot:
Task 2: Sequences
What structure of shots and their duration did you
find in the sequence you noted?
Task 3: What were the main messages of the
story- did the filming techniques help to convey
that effectively?
Write brief responses below please.
Some other tips
• Zooming is rarely used, is used to change shots
from a long shot to a much closer shot.
• The lighting is another major topic- check out the
light, shoot away from windows and intense
light.
• Hold the shot for about 10 secs to give you
plenty to select from for editing.
• Short shots only, shots are trimmed to between
3 and10 secs
• Establish the setting
• Connect the start & the end
• Edit to avoid jumps from one shot to a similar
shot.
Editing
• Capture video & other files to computer
• Create a project folder and save video,
photos, sound, music, narration files to it.
• Import to software (MovieMaker or
iMovie…Premiere or Final Cut Pro)
• Drop/drag clips onto timeline and trim and
manipulate them there.
• Save & export movies.
Movie Maker
Editing a videoclip
Movie Maker interface
Video clips, still photos,
sound files are dragged
onto or imported into the
Collections pane
Movie tasks
pane
monitor
storyboard
Select & import files
Movie maker splits video
clips into smaller clips to
allow easier editing
View clips on
monitor
Drag clips into
storyboard
Select clips
to be
included,
delete others
Click to show timeline (see next slide)
Use monitor to determine points to trim on timeline
Note time for clips, can be trimmed to time required
Selection tool to play clips
To shorten clip time, click and drag edge of clip
A sound file, music or commentary might be added here in another project
Text as titles and credits might be added here
To complete movie:
File/Save As will save as a Movie Maker file for later editing if
required.
File/Save As Movie file will create a movie for playing