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Media Arts, 9-18-2017

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Warm-Up: Check your Media Arts grade in SchoolMax. What do you need to change to improve the grade you see there? (Answer this question in Google Classroom.)

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Today's Agenda

  1. Warm-Up (See above)
    1. Effort
    2. Focus
  2. Goals
    1. Grades
    2. Learning
    3. Doing
  3. Assignments
    1. Film Festival, January 24th (Midterm)
    2. Homework
      1. Stop deleting your rubrics.
      2. Meant to review skills and try new things.
        1. Not doing this hurts YOU. If getting better at making videos is your goal, you need to make videos!
      3. This week's homework:
        1. 5 pts: Pacing (Is it so slow the audience gets bored? Is it so fast the audience misses things?)
        2. 5 pts: Audio (Is the dialogue clearly spoken? Do other sounds drown the dialogue out? Do the sounds help reinforce the plot?
        3. 5 pts: Visuals (Title & credits?Can the audience see what's going on?  Do the shot choices direct the audience's focus in ways that help move the plot along? Are the transitions distracting?)
        4. 5 pts: Video should convey a specific emotion (anger, sadness, joy, etc.) and have that emotion be the title of the video. Music choices can help with that, but make sure you have permission and properly credit your sources.
          1. Song Name, Artist Name, and where you got it are the MINIMUM for citing the music you use.
    3.  Door Scene
      1. Storyboard was due: 9-15-2017
        1. Plot:
          1. Character approaches door.
          2. Character cannot open door.
          3. Character struggles to open door.
          4. Character gets through door.
        2. Shots:
          1. Title
          2. Credits
          3. Establishing shot
          4. Close-Up shot
          5. Extreme Closeup shot
          6. Over The Shoulder shot
      2. Final cut of video due: 9-29-2017
  4. Work Time
  5. Unable to work on the classwork? Go through the YouTube Audio Library and make a personal list of songs you want to include in future videos.
    1. A Google Sheet is a convenient way to organize things.
    2. Helpful things to include:
      1. Song name
      2. Artist name
      3. Mood
      4. Genre
      5. Whether or not the song is under a Creative Commons License