COMPLETE VIDEO GUIDELINES FOR THE TEACHER

Duration of Activity: 2-8 hours

Timeline: Introduction to activity (10 min), Students find data and prepare script (2:40h) Video taping (1:10h)

Groups of: 3-4 students. (Maximum 5 groups)

Materials and Resources: Video Camera (charged), DV tape (60 minute), Lavaliere Microphone if possible or a table microphone (just in case students want to use them), TV (So that at the end you can show the recordings)

STEPS (Week 3-5)

Week3

  • Each group will be assigned randomly a project to work on. (World Weather, USA, AFRICA, St. Louis (Missouri), Nairobi (Kenya) (See table below)

2 groups / St. Louis (Missouri), Nairobi (Africa)
3 groups / St. Louis (Missouri), Nairobi (Africa), USA
4 groups / St. Louis (Missouri), Nairobi (Africa), USA, World
5 Groups / St. Louis (Missouri), Nairobi, Africa, USA, World
See below for details on each project.
  • Each group will get a group information sheet (Sheet 3.0) that will be handed at the end of the day to the instructor.
  • Each student will get a guideline activity sheet (Sheet 3.1) with the storyboard sheet (3.2) attach to it. (Note: there is a storyboard example sheet for the teacher to use as an example you could project this if you want.)
  • Talk about the parts that the projects must have (Story board, PowerPoint and script). (See student sheet for reference)
  • You can show story board example its in the lesson plan section for teachers.
  • You can show them the PowerPoint example so that they can get a notion of what they could do.
  • Show the weather forecasting video section one more time (2 minutes so that students could pick some more ideas) Tell them that they may want to start watching the news channel to get ideas in weather forecasting.
  • Give ATTENDANCE prize to those who have had perfect attendance.
  • Answer any questions from students.
  • Get Started…and monitor groups regularly 

Week4-5

  • Students work on their PowerPoint’s, data gathering and script.
  • Monitor, guide students on their projects, and refresh them how to get images from the internet. (TIP: Print screen is a good tool _.

Week6-7

  • Students should be close to being done. The groups that are ready may want to get prepared to do the recording if possible use two cameras/ one for students, one for teacher.
  • Record their performance. MAKE SURE the camera is RECORDING!! And that the videotape is IN THE CAMERA.

PROJECT IN DETAIL

Make sure you tell students that work in similar projects (Kenya, Africa) St. Louis

WORLD

(Open-ended )

USA

(Open-ended )

AFRICA

(Open-ended )

ST.LOUIS (MISSOURI)

(Open-ended )

NAIROBI (KENYA)

(Open-ended )

FOR THE TEACHER- ALTERNATIVE SITUATIONS

  • Videos will be shot like if it was the morning in St. Louis (7:00am) (i.e. 5:00pm Nairobi) ---Each group will be getting a different time zone opposite to what they are going to be producing to work out the time difference issue.
  • Case#1: Forecast St. Louis Weather
  1. Although some may want to include some news in it the main body of the video will be WEATHER.

ACTIVITY GUIDELINES FOR STUDENTS (Sheet 3.1)

Final Group Products will be:

  • A storyboard of how the videotape is going to be shot and the parts of their videos. (This will be the groups’ map!)
  • A PowerPoint that will be used as main interface for the presentation (This will have the images used). This is what the group will actually use for their forecasting video background to guide them just like in the TV (If a live animation is used then permission needs to be asked to the instructor to see if this option will be feasible for that particular group.)
  • A script of what the different presenter’s are going to be saying during the recording, how they will be dressed and what items will they use.
  • A 3-5 minutevideo clip of Weather forecast & some clips (3-5min max) of the rehearsal moments (Backstage shots.)
  • A stapled document with: Group information sheet (participants, name of group, etc), Storyboard, scripts and any other extra documentation the group may have used to accomplish the project.

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STORY BOARD: (See teacher example)

  • The steps of the video: the order of appearance of the presenters, the portion that they will be talking about, their roles, their costumes and any special effect.
  • Slides or images (maps, extended forecast) from the Web that will be included in the PowerPoint.
  • Weather factors that will be discussed in each portion of the video and their relation to the images.
  • Temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, wind speed, etc
  • (OPT) Any additional news they will talk about briefly. (Traffic, breaking news, school news, etc) this should be a very small portion of the project. 

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POWERPOINT

Must have:

  • Name of: the NEWS channel and participants. It should also include the channels symbol.
  • Doppler radar images regarding: Temperature, Precipitation, Clouds, Dew points, wind speed.
  • Extended Forecasts when applicable
  • Other slides for breaking news or special news channel features
  • A graph (from Excel or Website)

Example: Possible recommendations to the audience about: (Pwpt, images, etc)

  • What kind of Cloth you will need to use
  • Recreation (sport, theme parks), tourism (weekend plans, long vacation plans), health concerns.
  • Traveling, Morning Commute, Biking, Air traveling

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SCRIPT

Must have:

  • It should have in writing what each presenter will be saying during each slide or event for the news channel for the recording.
  • The costumes people will be using (if appropriate and agreed by the group)
  • The time it should take for the presenter to do their job.

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TO REMEMBER: IMPORTANT

(1)The main focus of the video is on Weather and anything related to it.

(2)The video should not be longer than 6 minutes

(3)

THINGS MENTIONED IN CHANNEL 2 NEWS THAT COULD BE USEFUL TO NOTE:

Fog, Snow, sun, spring, gray, fog, rain, cloudiness, Doppler radar, scattered showers, heaviest rain, temperature above freezing, moisture, humidity, weather front, wind, pressure.

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PROJECTS WEBRESOURCES: Sites for Students to get information.

  1. World Weather: Talk about the general weather around the world and then discuss the weather very quickly in each continent. (Use only main weather factors: precipitation, wind, temperature)

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

NORTH AMERICA:

(b)

EUROPE:

(a)

ASIA, AFRICA. SOUTH AMERICA: The first three sites will work well.

  1. USAUnited States: (a)
  1. Africa:

(a)

(b)<World Weather Resources will also Help>

  1. Missouri- St. Louis:

(a)

(c)

(d)

  1. Kenya- Nairobi:

(a)

(b)

Some general Resources where they can get general information on ALL the projects

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(f)

(g)

Developed by: Jose I. Pareja (University of Missouri - St. Louis)