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Project - Digital Citizenship 2: Fact Checking

This project may be completed by the following students:

M1 1st Year Media Arts Majors.

M2 2nd Year Media Arts Majors.

M3 3rd Year Media Arts Majors.

TC Technology Concepts Students.


Directions

  1. Pre-Production

    1. Locate at least THREE (3) distinctly different websites that explain how to verify statements (fact check).
      1. Make sure to create citations for these lists, you WILL need them in your credits.
    2. From these lists, pick the top FIVE (5) steps that you agree are good ideas.
      1. You may very well agree with more than 5, but this project has a time limit.
      2. If there's enough overlap of your chosen lists to prevent you from picking 5 rules, find and add another list.
    3. Find two distinctly unrelated statements made online.
      1. These statements should be from websites NOT blocked by PGCPS. Your teacher still needs to verify your sources, and can't do that if the links are blocked.
      2. The statements must be unrelated to prevent the verification of one statement disproving (or verifying) the other statement.
      3. The statements can be about science, politics, economics, or other categories approved by your teacher.
    4. Use the steps you've selected on the two statements you've selected to decide if they are true, false, or undetermined.
    5. Take your findings and turn them into a script where you share your chosen fact-checking steps and run through your two selected statements as examples for how the steps can be used.
      1. The difference between a list and a script in this case is that the script should be a CONVERSATION with your audience.
        1. Introduce yourself.
        2. Talk to the audience the way you would talk to a younger sibling whom you care about.
        3. Explain why it's important to not blindly trust statements just because you want them to be true.
      2. Time yourself as you read your script out loud.
        1. If it takes less than 2:30 to read it, you should add more content. (RELEVANT CONTENT, not filler, digressions, or a plan to just read more slowly with 2 minutes of credits.)
        2. If it takes you more than 5 minutes to read it, you should cut parts of it out.
          1. Remember to not cut out anything required by the rubric, but you might have to shorten something.
    6. Get your script approved by the Media Arts teacher. They may have advice to make the recording/editing process easier.

  2. Production

    1. Recruit some classmates (if needed) and record your script.

  3. Post-Production

    1. Open your recording in a video editor. Look for anything that should be removed to improve the quality of the video.
      1. Long pauses
      2. Misspoken words
      3. "um," "er," "well," etc.
    2. Add thematically appropriate background music.
    3. Add b-roll where appropriate.
      1. This could be to break up a long clip to add some visual variety or to hide a cut where something was removed, but it should ALWAYS relate to the dialogue.
      2. Screen captures of the online statements would make ideal b-roll for this project.
    4. Be sure to use credits at the end of your video to give thanks to anyone who helps you create it.
      1. This includes YOU! YOUR NAME should be in the credits!
      2. This includes ALL CITATIONS for work not created by you!
        1. If your teacher cannot quickly and easily find the media you added using your citation as a guide, you will not get credit for your citations.
        2. This is easy to do, but being too lazy to do it WILL cost you 25% of your grade.
    5. Export your completed video and upload it with a copy of your approved script.

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