This Assignment comes after students learn about web-based presentation software but before students create their videos. This assignment will use Prezi and will give students a chance to practice their skills and also connect ways in which they can apply numerous tools they have learned to one project. Additionally, as students look for copyright free images they apply the newly learned in EU2 assignment concepts: concept of copyright, creating authentic content, and remixing existing content.
Create You Own Storyboard:
Now that you have developed a general idea what your video is going to be about it is time to create a storyboard for it. Storyboards are very important and help to make your video production easier. In a nutshell, they are a sort of a comic book style illustration of the entire movie. They help to organize your story, create a visual roadmap and a list of content, and keep you staying focused.
Here is an example of a storyboard for a video explaining the process of storyboarding (click on the image to enlarge):
NOTE: For this assignments we will be using at least 6 squares depicting the key events of your movie and instead of freehand drawing — digital pictures.
- Watch a few examples from practicing professionals about their storyboarding process: https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4142987CFF2C5D49
- Login to your Prezi account: https://prezi.com/
- Working in Prezi’s “Assembly Template” create a storyboard for your video (you should use at least 6 squares). Instead of sketching each scene by hand, use a picture representing the scene. Use free media libraries at http://generator.acmi.net.au/library, https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=creative%20commons&sort=relevance&license=1%2C2%2C4%2C5%2C9%2C10, http://www.copyright-free-images.com/ or https://archive.org/details/image as resources for pictures. Place a picture for the idea in visual box, and then write the action explaining what’s happening below it. Make sure you account for audio. For example, in the notes you can include “ambient sounds” or a part of a dialog or narration.
- Write a short synopsis of your movie and post a link (or embed) your storyboard into the class blog.
- Preview other students’ story boards and make a post evaluating the one you particularly like. In your evaluation, consider the following questions (these questions are from the grading rubric):
- Focus on important events: Does the storyboard list all 6 most important events that occur in the movie? Do all boxes have illustrations? Are all important events displayed in the right order?
- Captions/notes: Are all captions and notes relate to the storyline of the movie?
- Characters: Are all characters clearly identified and their actions matched to those in the storyline?
- Creativity: Does the storyboard contains many creative details and descriptions. Does the selection of images contributes to the story and/or used imaginatively?
Rubric for assessing the storyboards:
| Category | Excellent | Good | Satisfactory | Needs Improvement |
| Focus on important events | Storyboard included all required elements:The story has a beginning and the end.The storyboard lists at least 6 most important events that occur in the movie. All boxes have illustrations. All important events are displayed in the right order. | Storyboard included most of the requirements but left out one or two. | Storyboard is missing a few requirements and is a bit incomplete. The important events have gaps in storyline. | Many required elements are missing. This storyboard is very incomplete.The story is missing the beginning or the end. |
| Captions/notes | All captions and notes relate to the storyline of your movie. | Most captions and notes relate to the storyline. | Storyboard is missing a few captions or notes. | Most of the notes and captions are incomplete, do not relate to storyline or missing all together |
| Characters | All characters are clearly identified and their actions are very well matched to those in the storyline. | Some characters are identified. The actions a little bit mismatched or do not reflect the story. | Identities of many characters are mismatched to their actions. | Most characters are missing and the actions are not identified. |
| Creativity | The storyboard contains many creative details and/or descriptions. The selection of images contributes to the story in an imaginative and unique way. | Storyboard has some pictures and diagrams. It is somewhat unique. | Storyboard has few pictures. It is a bit on the boring side. | Storyboard has almost no pictures or pictures do not contribute to the storyline. It is boring. |
Rubric for assessing evaluation posts:
The rubric for assessing quality of students’ comments on each other’s work will be the same as for every reflective post.
Clarity: The language is clear and expressive. The reader can create a mental picture of the situation being described. Comparison explanation makes sense to an uninformed reader.
Analysis: View points and interpretations are insightful and well supported, expressed in an appropriate style, and are clearly related to the topic. Students’ position/perspective is imaginative, taking into account the intricacies and controversies of copyright, creativity, and content remixing issues.
Relevance: Reflection is meaningful and demonstrates connections between the knowledge gained from assigned article and video and students’ personal feelings and experiences with the issues.
Self-Criticism (Comments): Students are able to empathize and recognize value of points of views of others. Considerations of other students’ perspectives raise a question of students’ own biases and preconception.