Give us an honest appraisal of your journey around trying to produce your Capstone Project. What problems have you encountered? How will you solve them?
So far my biggest stumbling block has been my unfamiliarity with creating content on the Internet. I struggle with linking things between platforms and just knowing where and how and why to click on buttons that often seem hidden behind "windows" or tabs or whatever. Nothing seems to work the first time. Much feels counter-intuitive and not seamless. I think everything is more complicated than it should be because there are so many companies and platforms and file types and places to store things, etc, etc. Sometimes my wife helps me and sometimes YouTube videos do. I'm learning that a vital 21st Century skill is just being able to "teach yourself" new skills most of the time. A big problem is my info graphic. I see that most others that my peers have done are related to the lessons or the process that their project incorporated. Since I was not able to complete the core part of my study, I don't know if I can do an honest, informative info graphic on this. I can come up with something alternative to do. What aha’s have you encountered as you watch mini-documentaries and past capstone videos? How are they different? Think about who you are creating the mini-documentary for? What essential points will be most important to them and how will you address them in your storytelling? It's comforting to see how different the capstone videos are. They all work. That's good. The mini-documentaries taught me what b roll is. I learned that there is a real art to piecing together the different images and b roll footage with the interview footage. Right now I'm juggling a few things that I might piece together for my video. One is the interview footage and audio. The other could be the story line. When I wrote the story line I thought that it could also be read aloud and woven in between the interview cuts in order to give a more complete picture of the project as it evolved, then crashed, and evolved again. I uploaded a lot of images and videos from the past school year that I think could be enough to tell the story visually. I don't think I'll have to record any video to re-create what the project was about. When I was uploading images into WeVideo they actually helped me to imagine how the story line will read. I also took pictures of my sketches and put them in there to help tell the story along if I need to use them. The hard part is going to be piecing it all together. I need a storyboard planner where I can order and overlap the b roll images and video, the interview video cuts and voice audio, and the story line audio. If I can tell the story without the story line audio, I think I should do that. It might be overkill and I should be able to tell the story with just the interview and the images. Kinda like reading between the lines. If I can't maybe the story is too long and complicated to maintain interest. My documentary is for teachers or aspiring teachers and specifically for teachers interested in teaching outdoor science. I need to keep that in mind and give what I think would be the most useful and interesting tidbits of information. They should come away from the video knowing at least one thing they could go look into if they wanted to.
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Kathy Martin
6/21/2020 08:55:02 pm
I love your idea to start putting pictures and videos into the video creation site. I am really struggling with how to do the documentary and that is maybe a place I can start just to get those creative juices going.
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Shawna Hoxsie
6/22/2020 04:00:00 pm
You are not alone in this struggle! I have not finished the work on my paper either and it has had a bit of a ripple effect with everything else and not being sure what exactly to do. You got this! You have created some really cool stuff throughout this program. I really like some of the ideas you have come up with for your project and really look forward to seeing your finished work.
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AuthorJeremy Smith teaches third grade at Calistoga Elementary School. Archives
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