The student will record footage of a fall and winter sport. Shoot various wide, medium, and close up shots of players, crowd reaction shots, fans watching the game, score board (this helps tell where you are in the game-beginning, halftime, last minutes) coaches, trainers, officials, the ball, etc. One edited sport video is due by the end of each quarter. The student will edit a fast paced one minute or more highlight video with student created GarageBand/Soundtrack music or your own music. Remember the 180º rule to prevent crossing the line. Rubric. These videos will be shown on Wyo5Live and may also be included in the 2010 senior video package.

• The students will produce a 30 second creative commercial for the new Apple iPod Nano, iPod, iPod Video, or iPod Shuffle. Students can use the music track that Apple uses for its commercial. If an iPod doesn't excite you, select a must have toy or product and create a commercial for that toy or product. The students should try creative editing, especially trying to use green screen technology with this design brief. Ex. iPod-Ryan, iPod-Jim.
Design brief by Mike Matz.

• The students will create a special effects video clip using After Effects, Motion, Soundtrack, Final Cut Pro, clip art, green screen, and other necessary items to create this humorous special effects video. One minute or less. Watch a sample video.

• The students will select a 1 to 5 minute scene from their favorite movie and recreate all the shots, scenes, camera angles, dialogue, acting, props, sound effects, etc. using their classmates as the actors. Students can use parts of the real movie to enhance their recreation (Happy Gilmore), which might otherwise not be able to be recreated. The students can use the original music track from the movie to enhance the project.
Ex. Wedding Crashers, Not Another Teen Movie, Brady Bunch, and Happy Gilmore. Design brief by Mike Matz.

• The students will select a favorite commercial from their senior year and recreate all the shots, camera angles, dialogue, acting, props, music, etc. except use Wyo students or teachers as the actors.
Ex. Verizon • Hello, I'm a Mac...and I'm a PC • Geico •

• This team project is based on the real 48 Hour Film Project which happens throughout the world at over 30+ cities. In the 4500 Digital Video Competition, the teams (Berks County High school students) would meet at the Miller Center (RACC, Reading, PA) on Thursday, February 24, 2011 for the Kick off day and workshops.
• At 2pm students will learn the rules and guidelines. They will randomly pick a film genre along with getting a character, prop, and line of dialogue which must be in all finished videos. The film genres could be a drama, super hero, comedy, romance, mystery, etc.
• The teams have 4500 minutes, 75 hours, or 3 days to write, shoot, and edit the 2-5 minute video and export it to MiniDV tape and deliver it back to the Miller Center by 6 pm Sunday.
• A presentation of all the videos will take place on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at the Miller center, followed by an awards presentation. Check out 4500dvc.org for more info and student videos.

• The students will record fellow classmates and teaches with questions related to the selected holiday - Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hannukkah, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Memorial Day. Questions can be about the food, traditions, or even movies based on the holidays. Students could also ask students or teachers to sing certain words of selected songs and edit the songs together using many different voices to make a video.

Educational
Instructional Videos
for...Tech Ed,
Elementary, and the Junior/Senior HS

• The students will produce videos to help reinforce Tech Ed lessons taught by Mr. Farrara. The students will record and edit Mr. Farrara demonstrating a lesson and prepare this as an instructional video accessible on a computer in class or on the internet.
• The students will produce educational videos to help the elementary students learn the alphabet, numbers, colors, and more. The students will contact the Elementary Teachers at the Hills Elementary Center to help with the script and storyboard for the creation of the videos. These videos could be similar to the ones you see on Sesame Street. The finished videos will be given to the Hills Elementary Teachers on DVD. Students could also produce educational videos to help junior/senior high students or parents.

• The students, working with Mrs. Mangold and Mr. Uliasz, will create a 30 or 60 second video on "The Power of Your Voice". Students will follow the guidelines sent by the PA Coalition for Representative Democracy, if they have it again in 2009. Watch the 3 student vote videos from 2008 • 1 • 2 • 3 •

• 4th Qtr Requirements • Due date: 2 days before the end of the 4th quarter
• The students will use DVD Studio Pro to author a DVD with all their video projects and any other student video projects, with permission by the other students. The student will also use Photoshop to design, create, and print the burned DVD on the Epson R200 or Primera Bravo se color printer with a creative design along with a DVD case cover. The student will be charged $1 for the DVD-R and the slim case.

Music Requirements
• All music used in student videos for contests will be required to create the music using GarageBand, SoundTrack, Digital Juice, Movie Maestro or other copyright free software. All other music requirements are based on the individual assignment.