Still going well

The Video Production students continue to accel! Today our JNN (Jerome News Network) group managed to pull together the taping of their on-set segments. They seemed to be lacking leadership but with a significant amount of prodding from the instructor-team they managed to get their taping completed. It won't be the most flashy version of a newscast that they've ever done, but then the managed to get it finished with very little intervention.

Meanwhile, students have now turned in EVERYTHING that's allowable in the Film Fest event. One producer was there up until the very last minute trying to get things ready.

We are very excited about our upcoming "48 Hours" opportunity for the Level 2 students. They will form groups of their own choosing, any number of participants may be involved (no rules). They will recieve on Friday afternoon a list of three items: genre, prop and phrase. From the moment they recieve their assignment they will have forty-eight hours (until the end of the day Sunday) to shoot footage. Then, working only during class time, the students will use Final Cut Pro and any other means at their disposal, to prepare a video or mini-movie that they think is the best they can possibly do. Eventually we'll have a meeting with the video students at Coffman High who are completing the same project. It will be interesting to see what we end up with.

Meanwhile, we instructors are gearing-up for the next Level-1 assignment which rolls the Music Video and Final (history) project all into one time period. We are reviewing rubrics, assignment sheets and expectations. We should have something ready for the students by the end of the week. I will try to remember to post it here.