Procrastination Studios

Great job everyone on the CWW videos! Thanks to the Grade level leaders for carefully selecting the photos. They livened up the assembly and made for entertaining viewing. Subdivision Productions produced the Grade 6 video.Fur on Fire Productions produced the Grade 7 video. T&N Productions produced the Grade 8 video.

A couple of things to remember:

• Watch your movie project at least once before you render it into a video, make sure it flows smoothly from start to finish.
• Remember to match your music to your videos on the timeline, this may take some creative editing of the songs.
• Start adding your logo before the title sequence so we know which production company was responsible for the video.
• Make sure everyone has a chance to edit and try using different editing software.

The second episode of Speaker’s Corner focused on the canteen and the wide selection of choices available to students. In the first part, our camera visits each of the restaurants to get an idea of what is offered at each one. In the second part of the episode, we head out to find MS opinions on their favorite places to eat in the canteen. Doesn’t anyone bring their own lunch anymore? Denise took the helm directing while Yukari and Isabel compiled the footage of the interviews. Xavier did a great job editing the production.

In an effort to have more manageable groups, we decided to break into production crews of 4 students each. Each production crew was responsible for coming up with a name, designing a logo and managing a blog where they could report their progress and frustrations. You can visit any of the Production Crew blogs through the links on the sidebar. With the production crews up and running, each groups were given multiple assignments to work on. Great work on the logos everyone!

The first episode of Speaker’s Corner for the 2007-08 season was a back to school special. Hot on the heels of summer, we asked students and teachers to tell us the craziest thing they have ever done. Some of the stories seemed well matched to the individual answering, but there were some surprising responses. We also quizzed Grade 6 students about getting lost and fearing the large Grade 8 students during their first week.

We started the year with a collaborative project with Mr. Crawford’s IB film class. The idea was that we would get to see some pros in action and learn the basics of producing a video with some experiential learning. The IB students wrote the scripts and storyboards while we were left to direct, act, and crew the video. After seeing the final products, we set out to complete the same assignment by ourselves. We were divided into 2 crews of 8. Max was the manager for one crew while Sophia was the manager for the second crew. Students were expected to create a chase sequence. During the chase, the actors were to enter through 4 doors and 2 other portals, yet exit a different way each time.

Speaker’s Corner is our regular ongoing production. We try to produce 1 episode every 2 weeks. Each episode revolves around a preselected theme, with questions posed to teachers and students. The responses are carefully edited to report Middle School views on a particular topic. If you have an idea for an episode, leave a comment on the blog or email Mr. D.

This is the homepage of the our Video Journalism class. News, updates and resources to help our video productions will be posted here. You can subscribe to the production crew blogs from this site. Also, feel free to visit their blogs to see the creative ideas and productions of each group. We are still working towards producing podcasts about our work and posting our videos on the sites. Stay tuned for more developments and please feel free to leave a comment.