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The most popular place in the library is our green screen studio. At any point during the day, you might see students waiting to get into the studio. We are using it for school news, student projects, promotional videos or skits about the habits, book commercials, and library instructional videos. Often, I will have one group in the studio video taping and one or two groups practicing their scripts in various places throughout the media center.
Currently, we are using the DoInk Green Screen app for the green screen effect. Students select videos or pictures from the Internet to place in the background. They are learning how to layer these images into filming their projects and are becoming adept at doing this. After taping their projects, students are learning to use iMovie and LumaTouch to edit projects by cutting clips, adding music, transitions, and special camera effects. I think they are enjoying this process more than the actual taping. Sometimes, students are not using the studio. Instead, they are taping videos onsite throughout the school. The process of creating and editing videos is a powerful learning tool in our school community. It is a great way for students to demonstrate learning, provide information for the student body, promote school events, and reinforce the school and classroom connection. When students engage in video production, it is a rigorous process. Before they can produce the videos, they create a script that is divided into scenes or segments. They need to plan out what the video will look like in order to set up the different shots (begin with the end in mind.). They need to find background images to enhance their scenes. Students are making decisions about transitions, camera angels, music, sound effects, and overlaying text in order to enhance their video production. Literally, they are the director. Students are required to synergize, think win/win, and listen first in order to work with their cast. Students also need to think about their audience. Who will be watching the videos and how will you get your message across to them? Producing supports our goals of Leader in Me. I’m so grateful to watch these 5th and 6th students develop skills that they did not know that they had. Many other talents such as script writing, acting, and sense of humor has been revealed throughout the video making process. We have many students that are going to thrive in the speech/debate, and theater programs at the middle school. One of the issues we have been working around is audience. Their productions need to have an audience, and creators of the project need feedback from the audience. The videos are not perfect, and it is difficult for me to stop fixing their videos to make them better. However, if students receive feedback from an audience - they will know how to improve their video product. Not all of the student projects are shown to an audience because of the lack of time in classrooms. I definitively think that we need to find a way around this. I am going to show some of the projects to students during their check out days. Our news shows are shown in the classroom on Monday mornings, but this isn’t the case with classroom projects. The other issue is how to share the videos. I created a YouTube account for the school. I upload most of the videos here and share them with the school via e-mail. I also use Google Drive to upload the videos so that students can share them with their teachers and download segments to other devices in order to edit videos in the classroom or at home. Here is the link to our video channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYYy4UkhksbBRSZLVbzwN-w . My goal is to expand the green screen studio. Currently, we are using a mobile green screen on a stand. It is not ideal, but it is necessary. I need to repaint the walls in the studio the correct color of flat green. We also need to purchase a large screen television and an AppleTV streaming device. This will help students create better videos. If they can see the actual green screen effect - they can better interact with the images. I would love to add better lighting located across the ceiling and a small sound system. Eventually, I will add other applications such as WeVideo so that students can learn about other video production software and applications. So, stay tuned! Here are some of the productions that students have created. 6th Grade Classroom Project5th Grade - Library Instruction - Sholanda Show6th Grade - Leader In Me - Being ProactiveApps for Video Production |
Mr. David Stockton
Library Media Specialist Willard Intermediate South |