August 8-10, 2007
Teachers Steve Simons, Rdg-Muhl Career and Tech Center (L) and Mike Farrara, Wyomissing Area JSHS (R) with the LCA students
Based on the Berks County 4500 Digital Video Competition
That's up to the filmmaker; however, each team must select the genre for its video in a random drawing
15 minutes before the start of the project.
The Genres are: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Spy, Action/Adventure, Drama, Sports, and Superhero.
In addition, all teams are given a character and a line of dialogue that must appear in each film.
Also they must supply and use at least one prop from the list below.
Character: Drake
Props: Magazine, newspaper, umbrella, sunglasses, and/or small child's toy.
Line of dialogue: “Your time is up”
Tips:
Remember you only have 2880 minutes, 2 days, or 48 hours to do this. Copy your teammates name, email, and phone number. Most of your shooting will take place at the BCIU. You may take the cameras home or bring your own to take different shots.
Good Luck!
BCIU Summer Digital Video Production for Kids
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August 9-11, 2006
BCIU Summer Digital Video Camp - July 26-28, 2005
2005 BCIU Summer Digital Video Camp Students and Teachers - Photo by: Wendy Scott, BCIU
The second BCIU sponsored digital video camp was held on July 26-28, 2005. The class was taught at the Berks County Intermediate Unit by Michael P. Farrara (Wyomissing Jr/Sr HS Technology Education Teacher) and Steve Simons (Reading/Muhlenberg Vo-Tech Commercial Art Teacher). The class provided Berks County students in grades 7, 8, and 9 with the opportunity to develop skills in basic video production using computer sotware for digital editing (Apple eMac computers and iLife 04).
Students were tasked with creating videos based on the country wide popular, 48 Hour Film Project (48 Hour Student Film Project PDF) concept. Student video groups randomly chose a genre which consisted of: comedy, super-hero, mystery, horror, or romance. The students had to write, create music, produce, edit, and prepare the videos for viewing in 48 hours. They also had to have a specific line of dialogue, prop, and character which they did not know until they picked their film genre. Click here to watch the 2005 videos.
The videos produced are suitable for playing via closed-circuit systems within the school district, for submission to the local competition of the Awards for Cablecasting Excellence (ACE), and for broadcast over the "School Casters" public access channel of the Comcast Cable System. Contact the BCIU (www.berksiu.org) for more information on upcoming student or adult classes.
BCIU Summer Digital Video Camp - July 2004
Lights,
Camera, Action1!...Finding Your Voice Through Video Productions provided
Berks County gifted and talented students in grades 8 and
9 with the opportunity to develop skills in basic video production
using computer sotware for digital editing (Apple eMac computers
and iLife). Students were tasked
with developing public service announcements (PSA's),
suitable for playing via closed-circuit systems within the
school district, for submission to the local competition
of the
Awards for Cablecasting Excellence (ACE), and for broadcast
over the "School Casters" public access channel
of the Comcast Cable System. The 2004
Regional Summer School of Excellence class was
taught at the Berks County Intermediate Unit (www.berksiu.org) on
July 26-30, 2004 by Michael
P. Farrara (Wyomissing Jr/Sr HS Technology Education Teacher)
and Steve Simons (Reading/Muhlenberg Vo-Tech Commercial
Art Teacher). Click
here to
watch the LCA 2004 PSA's.
Lights,
Camera, Action 1 students on the last day of the
2004 summer class.