Chapter 11 and Chapter 12
There are 5 Phases of Media Production. Phase 1-Story Planning Story
planning is necessary and important. At this point the creators can develop the
storyline and important components of the story. When going through phase 1 it
is important to get feedback through teachers and peers. At this stage, having
a solid plan will give direction for the other phases. Phase
2- Preproduction At this stage the creators search for various photos,
video and music clips. Phase 3- Production In Phase 3, the creators will
be completing the media components and put them together into a rough draft. Phase
4- Postproduction The creators will
be refining their rough draft into a final draft. They will be editing the
digital story. Phase 5- Performance After the completion of the 4th
step, publishing the work is the last step.
Throughout
the 5 steps, the students’ can be given a rubric to follow. By giving a rubric
to the students to ensure that their process is up to the teacher’s
expectations. Having a rubric will influence the students work because they
will know exactly what they will be working on at what point of time.
Think about the outcome of the digital story. What is your student
trying to achieve? What do you want your students to achieve? When using DST as
a way to have an emphasis, the teacher must have a clear goal for each DST.
Depending on the goal, the teacher must emphasize it. If the students are
unclear of their goal, they will have no direction or point of view.
Within the 5 phases of production, getting the right type of media is
important to DST. The way at digital story is presented can have a lot of
impact or a little. Adding in narration, music, and special effects help
develop the storyline of the DST. Using video clips, pictures, art work, etc. that
has already been created would be a time saver within the digital production. By
searching for usable materials compared to making them, will save the creators
a large amount of time which could be used focusing on the final stages.
When piecing the various media material
together, having the media pieces together and being able to edit them together
impacts the DST greatly. As stated in
Chapter 11, having a literacy emphasis is key to the students’ DST
development. If a story is put together well, the audience can tell. The final project needs to be polished and
publicly reviewed.
Video: I used Screen-o-matic to create a guide through the scholastic website. I focused on the ordering portion of Scholastic.
I liked your video and the way you took the viewer through SO many steps. This can be a very overwhelming process. I haven't done it in years, but I remember some details and it was a lot of work. Your narration was perfect and starting with the calm music was a nice style addition. Maybe some narration in the beginning, to introduce the video and what we'd be doing would be a nice addition. Your title page basically introduced it, but more details could be added.
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Julie
Hi Natty,
ReplyDeleteI appreciated the 5 phases mentioned. You did a nice job refreshing the ideas that we will be using on our new projects. Reading through you summary now, after having worked a bit on my project, was helpful. It is overwhelming, but helpful. I can see where we are now - planning and pre-production, and where we are going.
Your screencast was easy to follow. You were very clear in your narrative and I appreciated the occasional text. I noticed that, as with my screencast, some of the tabs are hard to read so the text really helped.
Excellent summary of Ohlers ideas. I appreciated the underlining you did, as it helped organize my thoughts, and let me focus on each step.
ReplyDeleteScree nomadic looks like it worked well for you. You were concise in your directions and showed just how to complete each step.. I tried on the ipad, and not having a mouse to use to point as I talked was a drawback. Excellent job!
I also thought that was interesting about "getting the right type of media" and how that doesn't necessarily mean "video" as in action video.
ReplyDeleteI like that you chose Scholastic to screencast. One of my joys as a kid growing up was ordering from Scholastic book orders, and then as a teacher I loved doing the book orders and built a great classroom library on bonus points! That was in the "olden days" before online ordering was even a twinkle (imagine that!). I think your video is a great helper for those teachers who may not know how to do it "the new way" yet. Good job.