*** High School Students Can Earn 10 Credits Per Class and Attend Only 100 Minutes Per Day *** Talented Students Creating 'Digital Magic' @ ITFP! *** Saturday, November 21, 2009

Digital Video and Media, Advanced Digital Video and Media
Overview
Instructor: Di Fowler-White


Students will use Intel-based iMacs loaded with Final Cut Pro Studio to create their dream movies.Students will be the director, the producer, and the editor of their own movies. Each student will have a digital camera and access to our professional studio and control booth. Script writing, storyboard planning, special effects, and music writing will be a part of each project. Special attention to lighting concepts and microphones will contribute to professional looking projects. Students will make movies for themselves, their school, competitions, and community agencies. Some student work will be aired on Channel 21 and on our website. Digital still cameras, video cameras, laptops, and a professional digital production studio will be available for students as they create their projects.

Digital Video and Media

A wide variety of projects will be created during this semester including, but not limited to, two-dimensional graphics, photo story-telling, virtual reality, animation, music and video. Through careful study of video production, students will practice framing shots, still shots, moving shots, special effects, sound manipulation, music production, lighting techniques, editing and production. They will use specific software to create special effects.
Software will include, but not be limited to: Final Cut Pro Studio(Final Cut Studio 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2,DVD Studio Pro 4) , iLife 06 (iMoive, iPhoto, iTunes iDVD, Garage Band) and Editor's Toolkit (Back Traxx and JumpBacks).

C-SPAN Student-Cam Award

Alec Weaver was awarded a 3rd place in the National Student-Cam Contest, competing with about 1,000 entires. His video was aired on national TV, as well as a personal interview via Skype. Lucy Bruckner was an honorable mention. In May, the C-Span bus came to ITFP to give students a tour of the bus and to honor the winners. Click here to see the C-Span videos.

ITFP Students Capture 1st and 2nd Place at NETA

Ryan Hammack and Emma deVries (sic) created documentaries of heroes in their lives for a class project in the Digital Video and Media class at the Information Technology Focus Program. They won first and second place, respectively in the high school division of the Nebraska Education Technology Association’s annual contest.

Hammack, himself a runner, selected Steve Prefontaine as his hero. After careful research, Ryan used a combination of original footage, Olympic video footage and still shots to tell the story of an amazing athlete.

The fight for women’s rights and the activities of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony captured the interest of deVries. She used her grandmothers’ voices for the narration of the video.



Community Blood Bank Videos


Each semester the Lincoln Community Blood Bank has held a contest for ITFP students to create an advertisement encouraging young people to give blood. An Academy Awards Dinner is held to honor the students and announce the winners. Selected videos are aired on Time Warner Cable channels over 1,000 times during a six-week period! Go to http://www.don8bld.org/news/commercials.asp to view them.

Winners of the latest Nebraska Community Blood Bank contest are Graham L., Ryan H. and Rachael P. Compressed versions of the videos can be viewed by clicking on the links below.

by Graham L.

by Ryan H.

by Rachael P.


Perspectives

Digital Video and Media students studied the composition of still photography using a digital camera. They applied their knowledge of framing and camera angles to create a unique Perspective of a topic of their choice. Students used iPhoto to sequence their shots and to apply music* reflective of their perspective. The end product was converted to a QuickTime movie.
Examples are provided by Brady U., Jordan R., and Cameron S.

*In compliance with copyright guidelines, no more than 10% of any song was used.



Advanced Digital Video and Media

This advanced class will perfect and expand a studentĚs ability to produce quality video, animation, and music. Students will enter their work in multiple contests. Each student will use our professional studio and 3-chip Canon XL-1 cameras to produce one documentary that includes an interview, B-role, script writing for voice-overs, original music, and special effects. Quality projects will be aired on Channel 21. Students will be able to direct some of their own learning through an individualized contract. The contract will include a personal selection of video topic, personal choice of special effects project, and a music project. Final Cut Studio is the predominant software; it includes: Final Cut Pro 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2, LiveType, DVD Studio Pro 4. Students will create an ePortfolio of their completed work that can be submitted with applications for universities and other advanced degree programs.


Students produced the premier video for the Lincoln Arts Council's "Stories of Home" project. It was played at the Mayor's Arts Awards celebration last spring. It recently received an Award of Distinction from The International Communicator Awards. It can be viewed at:

http://www.artscene.org/includes/downloads/studntvid.mpg



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