30 Second Trailer - Advanced Digital Video Production PBL Project

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Standards

California Common Core State Standards - English Language Arts

RL.11-12.5 Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
SL.7.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCRA.W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
RST.9-10.3 Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.

30 Second Trailer - Advanced Digital Video Production PBL Project

Short, Fast, Creative, & informative-Film Trailers! Most students love to watch films and love to go to the movies. So they are already somewhat familiar with trailers, whose purpose is to promote or market upcoming releases. Today, teachers and students can watch trailers via websites, so they are more accessible than ever. The overall goal of this project is to give students the opportunity to get hands-on experience while making their own 30 second trailer for one of the "short videos" they have previously (or simultaneously) made in your class. Prerequisite Information: Since this project is for an advanced video production course, the emphasis is "Advanced Editing" and the final trailers should reflect this idea. You will not be "teaching" editing in this project, but rather guiding your students and helping them become better editors through technique and story development. They should also have produced at least one short genre type film for your class. If they have not produced any short films they can also edit footage that you provide them or even make a trailer out of a full length Hollywood production!