After the STAAR results were presented by the state, I believe the majority of us felt we needed to focus on expository writing. Each of us brings various levels of expertise and we all know how important it is to have a strong foundation. Since the skills are basic at the 4th grade level, we moved to the 5th grade level. These expectations begin with the more in-depth skill base needed for students to write on level at the upper grades. Therefore, it was decided 5th grade would be our focus group. We needed to determine what would be the purpose of our video. It was stated in a web conference the video could take any form so we decided to use ours as a fun introduction to our expository writing unit. Scripts were written-we were all on track with our thoughts-and quite a large amount of video taken.
Kim began to pull all the video together and Carol gave us a royalty free website to search for music. Several of us submitted ideas of the type of music we should use and Kim placed it well. Kim sent out the first edit and we sent feedback. It was well over 2 minutes. The second edit was done and sent with more email feedback. The 3rd edit done we went to web conference and discussed cuts that should be made so we could try to get the effects we wanted. The scripts were updated. David completed the voice over and sent it to Kim for the new edit. The shot list was updated as well since we had a better view of what we actually wanted to accomplish. YouTube was used since it is the most dependable that we all were familiar with.
When we first discussed what we want to do with this video, we decided we wanted to create our own footage and everything so it would all be original. I wasn’t taking into consideration all the information sites we used to get where we were with the video; therefore, when we completed our fair use and copyrights, I learned quite a bit more about what needs to be cited and what could not be used without special permissions.
I believe our video could be improved with more of variety of shots. For example, extreme closeups of Carol’s eyes to better illustrate her frustration; an establishing shot of an office; different angles of Delaney as young Carol; and the paper actually moving as it taunts. However, with us being in different parts of the country and having to be away from home for various professional developments, we had issues doing this.
Our team collaborated in many different forms: email, Google Doc and through the chat feature on the document, web conferences through anymeeting.com, and even telephone and text messaging. By having multiple ways to talk about our project, we were able to pull our production together easily and make edits quickly. We worked well together and depended on each other to learn new information needed.
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