Why study video?
The explosion in internet streaming and non-broadcast TV has meant new job opportunities for skilled producers. But even if your young person is interested in a different career; video production is still a perfect inter-disciplinary challenge for young people. It compliments traditional academic skills like literacy and numeracy. It requires attentive minds, skilled hands and a heart with something to say.
Video Production 1 is a year-long elective open to students who successfully complete Photography 1. Students explore the creative and technical challenges of video production through completing a variety of authentic communication tasks in a flipped classroom/workshop environment. While learning basic concepts and skills of the media industries, students are also trained in soft skills required for success anywhere: critical thinking and problem solving, project management, electronic productivity tools, team dynamics, and interpersonal communication. Project work reinforces key literacy and numeracy skills with purposeful tasks.
There are four instructional units to contextualize learning in real-world enterprises:
Advanced Video is an opportunity for students who complete Video 1 to expand and refine the skills learned in the first year. Students will be challenged to work independently and in small groups to complete projects with more frequency and complexity than in the previous year. There are four units:
The explosion in internet streaming and non-broadcast TV has meant new job opportunities for skilled producers. But even if your young person is interested in a different career; video production is still a perfect inter-disciplinary challenge for young people. It compliments traditional academic skills like literacy and numeracy. It requires attentive minds, skilled hands and a heart with something to say.
Video Production 1 is a year-long elective open to students who successfully complete Photography 1. Students explore the creative and technical challenges of video production through completing a variety of authentic communication tasks in a flipped classroom/workshop environment. While learning basic concepts and skills of the media industries, students are also trained in soft skills required for success anywhere: critical thinking and problem solving, project management, electronic productivity tools, team dynamics, and interpersonal communication. Project work reinforces key literacy and numeracy skills with purposeful tasks.
There are four instructional units to contextualize learning in real-world enterprises:
- Unit 1 Images and image-making: Cameras, support, audio and editing. An overview of the production process.
- Unit 2 News conventions: Journalistic objectivity, newsworthiness, news writing and remote package production.
- Unit 3 Narrative: Visual storytelling and continuity editing.
- Unit 4 Persuasion: Advertising industry and forms of video advertising, rhetoric, client relations.
Advanced Video is an opportunity for students who complete Video 1 to expand and refine the skills learned in the first year. Students will be challenged to work independently and in small groups to complete projects with more frequency and complexity than in the previous year. There are four units:
- Unit 5 Studio Production: Multi-camera live production; program, episode and segment development.
- Unit 6 Documentary: Advanced news forms, conventional documentary style, alternative doc styles.
- Unit 7 DSLR Filmmaking: Advanced single-camera continuity shooting and editing, adaptation.
- Unit 8 Advanced editing: Digital effects and compositing.