A4.1 Video Pre-Production Plan

Instructions  

1. Determine the project idea.  Your video should either teach a skill for your students to learn, or serve as an example project to help students understand what you would want them to create for a project.  Choose a topic that can be adequately covered in a 2-5 minute video, and that lends itself well to the medium of video.
2. Complete your project plan. You can create your project plan in any word processing or presentation tool, or use one of the methods/templates linked in the content module. You need to have each of these elements in your project plan:
   • A learning objective.  What will the students know, feel, and/or do?
   • A script for what the narrator and/or actors will say.  The script should be concise, engaging, and feel natural to be read aloud.  Also include any information about sound effects or a soundtrack that you want to use.
   • A storyboard with visual representations for what will happen in each scene of the movie.  This could be stick figures, clipart, images, clips from existing movies, etc.  For live action video that you will record, include drawings, notes, arrows, etc. that depict the type of shots/camera motion you envision.  For existing assets, include the specific media you include to use (e.g., a link to a creative commons YouTube video or the actual image you want to use).
   • A plan to include all required elements on the Instructional Video Badge Links to an external site..  This does not need to be a separate section; just make sure you consider everything when making your script and storyboard.
   • A list of assets you plan to use in your project. This might include audio files, images, sound effects, etc.  Your list should include the title, author, source, and license type of each asset, so that you can easily work them into your credits.
   • A copyright considerations section. This could simply be a paragrah or table that explains your plan for abiding by copyright in your use of digital assets.  For example, you might say something like the following:
     • "All of the assets on the list above are Creative Commons, except my short clip from Enchanted.  I think that the use of the Enchanted aligns abides by fair use guidelines because I am only using 15 seconds (small amount) in a transformative way (to teach x), and this use is unlikely to have any commercial impact."  
3. Submit your work.  Your final submission will be the URL to a single document stored online (e.g., a Google Doc,  a document uploaded to Google Drive or Dropbox, etc.). Your document may include links if more convenient (for example, if you used an online tool to create your storyboard and it's easier to link to it than to include a picture).  Please make sure the sharing settings on your document allow others to view it.

Note:  Remember Creative Commons sources, which are often great places to get material you can use for free and without worrying about typical media use restrictions. You may find the following resources to be particularly useful to you as you begin to search for media:

1. • Creative Commons Links to an external site. - click on license, and then search licensed content
   • Flickr Links to an external site. (use the advanced search, scroll down, and click on “Creative Commons”)
   • Wikimedia commons Links to an external site.
   • Freeplaymusic Links to an external site.
   • Fotolia Links to an external site. (regular copyrighted stock photography, but cheap enough that you can afford to use it)
   • Free stock photo exchange Links to an external site.
   • Links to an external site.YouTube Links to an external site. videos (do a search, click on filters, and then creative commons)

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