Public+Service+Movie+QW

Assignment: (Movie Rubric) You will work in assigned groups to plan a movie about public service message. Within the groups you will brainstorm topics, then plan a movie You will film the movie together. Someone in the group will manage the camera. Others will act in the movie. The raw footage will be uploaded to WeVideo and shared with the other members of the group. Each of you will edit the raw footage to produce a final version of the movie. The final version must be 30-90 seconds long.

The movie will promote a service project that interests you and that positively representation ICS. The movie will also demonstrate the cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
 * The Virtues - from the Vatican
 * The Cardinal Virtues - from Catholic Encyclopedia

Create a wiki paged called Service Movie initials. Discuss the answers as a group, but each of you must answer the following questions on the wiki.

Step 1: Product Purpose and Message:
 * 1) What is the message of the movie? What is the service project? What is the virtue? How does this represent the ICS mission statement? Stop bulling. Justice and fortitude This represents the mission statement because we are catholic.
 * 2) What is the target audience? middle school and high school students
 * 3) What style will be used to organize the information? demonstration and panel discussion
 * 4) What creative techniques will be used to attract attention and make an emotional connection with the target audience? we will relate it to everyone's school and their everyday lives

Step 2: Storyboarding: []

Step 3: Production Process:
 * 1) Please list the first names of the group members. Wilmer, Jacob, George, Ricky
 * 2) Who in the group has a camera to use? a tripod to use? Wilmer, George
 * 3) What props will be needed? Who will arrange to bring them?camera
 * 4) Are costumes needed? Who will arrange to bring them? clothes
 * 5) What is the setting? (Pretend setting for the movie) classroom, Ricky's house
 * 6) Where will you film on campus? classroom, lunchroom, walkway
 * 7) What camera angles are planned?
 * 8) Which close-up, medium range and long range shots are planned?
 * 9) How many shots do you estimate you will have in the movie?
 * 10) How long do you estimate the raw footage will be?

Go to WeVideo page on this wiki to begin to go through the tutorials.


 * a lead or nut paragraph, essentially addressing why this story is important
 * profiles of the main person or people in the story
 * the event or situation
 * any process or how something works
 * pros and cons
 * the history of the event or situation
 * other related issues raised by the story


 * Decide what pieces of the story work best in video. Video is the best medium to depict action, to take a reader to a place central to the story, or to hear and see a person central to the story.
 * Decide what pieces of the story work best in still photos. Still photos are the best medium for emphasizing a strong emotion, for staying with an important point in a story, or to create a particular mood. They're often more dramatic and don't go by as quickly as video. Still photos used in combination with audio also highlight emotions. Panorama or 360-degree photos, especially combined with audio, also immerse a reader in the location of the story.
 * Does the audio work best with video, or will it be combined with still photos? Good audio with video is critical. Bad audio makes video seem worse than it is and detracts from the drama of still photos. Good audio makes still photos and video seem more intense and real. Avoid using audio alone.
 * What part of the story works best in graphics? Animated graphics show how things work. Graphics go where cameras can't go, into human cells or millions of miles into space. Sometimes graphics can be a story's primary medium, with print, still photos and video in supporting roles.
 * Does the story need a map? Is the map a location map, or layered with other information? GIS (geographic information systems) and satellite imaging are important tools for reporters. Interactive GIS can personalize a story in a way impossible with text by letting readers pinpoint things in their own cities or neighborhoods - such as crime or meth labs or liquor stores or licensed gun dealers.
 * What part of the story belongs in text? Text can be used to describe the history of a story (sometimes in combination with photos); to describe a process (sometimes in combination with graphics), or to provide first-person accounts of an event. Often, text is what's left over when you can't convey the information with photos, video, audio or graphics.
 * Make sure the information in each medium is complementary, not redundant. A little overlap among the different media is okay. It's also useful to have some overlap among the story's nonlinear parts, as a way to invite readers to explore the other parts of the story. But try to match up each element of a story with the medium that best conveys it.
 * Interactivity means giving the reader both input and control in a story. By making the story nonlinear, you've introduced an element of interactivity, because the user can choose which elements of a story to read or view and in which order. By including online forums or chats, you give readers input into a story. Some news sites have included interactive games so the reader can construct his own story. One newspaper let people help plan a waterfront redevelopment project with an online game in which they placed icons on a map of the waterfront showing where they thought parks, ball fields, restaurants, shops and so on should be located. For more examples of how news Web sites are including different types of interactivity, check out J-Lab -- the Institute for Interactive Journalism <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: georgia,verdana,serif; font-size: 14px;">.