Video Production
Mrs. Christine Stricker
Room 43
christinestricker@claytonschools
.net
Teacher website:
www.clayton.k12.mo.us/chs/strick
er
Class and attendance policies:
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Be present. 20 minutes late = absence.
Be on time. A detention will be assigned after your 3rd tardy and
every subsequent tardy.
Make an effort. Do your homework, take an interest, participate,
and you will do well in this class.
NO video games
NO downloading software of any kind without permission
All music must be created using soundzabound.com, Soundtrack Pro,
or Garageband
NO copyrighted material may be used in any broadcast project
without expressed permission from the creator.
Assignments:
To start, you will work on the Final Cut Pro tutorial, the Motion
tutorial, or After Effects Tutorials. When you are finished, you will
spend your time:
 Planning a project (you must complete 7 projects for the
semester)
 Working on a project, either filming or editing; if you leave to
film, you need to return to class before the end of class and
show evidence of your field work
 Working in the studio
 Creating your Weebly blog
 Using Internet to learn more about broadcasting or to look at
other high schools’ work
 Experimenting with software or other equipment to create
something new and/or fun\
 Fundraising
Projects:
Your projects must be of a quality high enough to run on biweekly Greyhound Exclusive Television (G.E.T.) Your stories
should fall into the following categories:
 News (breaking news/politics/significant event or issue)
 Feature story (softer side of news/student life)
 Sports feature on an athlete, team
 Sports pregame story
 Sports highlight
 PSA/commercial
 Short film
 Music video
 Creative project
Weebly Blog:
Your Weebly blog is intended to be a place for you to communicate
your video creation process and critique your own work.
Video Production
1. Create a Weebly.com page with a professional production
name for your site
2. Send me your URL
3. At minimum, you need a home page, video page, blog page and
contact page.
4. You must blog after every video project. So once the video
is complete, upload to Vimeo, embed into Weebly, and blog
about the good, the bad and the ugly of that particular
video.
5. After that, you can blog as much as you want and add pages
if you want. Design is up to you.
Exploring the Internet:
Here are some great websites to explore video projects:
www.schooltube.com
www.vimeo.com
http://www.manestreamnews.com/
Fundraising: As with yearbook and newspaper students, GNN students
need to fundraise to help for the cost of special equipment,
repairs, contest entry fees and organization affiliations. Students
are required to raise at least $50 per semester towards production
costs. This may be done in the following ways:
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Finding a corporate sponsor for GNN
Selling ads for the Globe (proceeds to be split between
Globe and GNN)
Creating a video project that can be sold at a profit
Participating in some other form of fundraising
Grading Policy
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You will also grade and assess the quality of the daily and
weekly show
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Grading scale is standard with cutoffs as follows:
97.5% A+
72.5% C
92.5% A
69.5% C89.5% A67.5% D+
87.5% B+
62.5% D
82.5% B
59.5% D79.5% B59.4% and below F
77.5% C+
You must drop this class by the end of the 1st quarter to
withdraw. Otherwise, you will receive a NC if you try to drop in
the 2nd quarter.
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Unit 1: Software
 Final Cut tutorial
 Motion tutorial
Unit 2: Studio & Remote
Shooting
Unit 3: Video Camera Operations
 Composing good shots
 Camera movement
Unit 4: Audio Basics
 Microphones
 Mixers
Video Production
Unit 5: Image Display
 Still photos
 Aspect & Contrast ratio
Unit 6: Lighting
 Types of lighting & lamps
 Planning the set
Unit 7: Production staging &
interacting with talent
Unit 8: Switcher & special
effects
 Switchers
 Character Generator
 Graphic Design
Unit 9:
Scriptwriting
Unit 10: Broadcast Journalism
Unit 12: Legalities
 Copyright
 Responsibilities of
student journalists
Unit 13: Music
 Sources
 Making your own
 Using in production
Unit 14: Directing
Unit 15: Types of Videos
 Documentaries
 Commercials
 Public Service
Announcements
 Short Films
Unit 16: Fundraising
Unit 11: Interviews
G.E.T. Show Dates
September 13
September 27
October 11
October 25
November 8
November 22
December 13
Second Semester
January 24
February 7
February 21
March 7
March 28
April 11
April 25
May 9
May 22