The NZTA 2012 Education competitions

Storyboard tipsfor 2012

Videos and digital stories – Tips for teachers Students can go further with video and digital storytelling if they follow a process.

The 4 stages: DevelopmentDecide what the story is and what you will use to tell the story

Pre-production. Choose locations, create a storyboard and shooting schedule

Production of storyboardMake Storyboard with photos or pics and/or animations and/or ppts etc

Pre-pare for Post-production. Review edit and add directions sounds and ideas about music to your entry

Plan out your digital story

•A storyboard helps you generate ideas and see what works

•Storyboards look like a comic strip and can be drawn on paper or with a still camera or a computer

•Scenes may follow the formula of anticipation, action and reaction

•Storyboards help students plan the pace of new information so the audience won't get confused

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A storyboard helps you generate ideas and test what ideas work for your story

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You can include:

•Drawings indicating where actors will be placed (try the rule of thirds)

•Actors’ movements

•The duration and type of shot (e.g. long shot, medium shot or close up)

A storyboard helps you generate ideas and test what ideas work for your story

You can include:

•Placement and movement of cameras

•Lighting requirements

•Dialogue

•Background music and sounds

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Videos and digital stories – Tips for teachers Development Pre-production

Development can be a very creative time. Students will choose a genre, and write a script. Suggest that your students ask each other:

•Who is the target audience?

•What are you trying to do – persuade, inform, entertain?

•What is the main point of your story? What information is important to be included?

•Where will the story be told?

•What will happen in the beginning, middle and end?

Development Pre-production

Decide if you will use moving images (video), still photographs or drawings, animation or a combination for the final production.

If you don’t have access to a video camera, other devices can capture video.

These include: digital still, mobile phones, computer cameras.

Finding moving and still images online. Often free, but do read licensing requirements

Sound and music. Best created by you

http://education.nzta.govt.nz/competitions/the-nzta-primary-years-competition

More pre-production tips Getting students into different roles helps achieve the end product.

•Writers finalise script and storyboard

•Location managers find locations

•Gather Ideas for props and costuming •Actors or animation?

•Directors decide on how each scene will look

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More pre-production tips With your storyboard in hand, break your movie downinto a shooting schedule.

The shooting schedule lists all the scenes or images in the order you will shoot them.

Shots can be grouped by the: •Same location•Same props or costuming •Same characters •Same time of day

Enter by 27 July 2012 schools

Winning schools will be notified by 10 August 2012.

Check the terms and conditions online here http://education.nzta.govt.nz/competitions/the-nzta-primary-

years-competition