Integrating Video Production into the Curriculum
Video Production Title
Video Type Music Video
Description/Overview

Integrated with the Booktalk! Research Model

Students will write their book report as lyrics to a song (a music "Rap") in order to give a bookreport as a music video.
Approximate Time Needed 310 minutes (130 write, 90 film, 90 edit- includes research model time)
Curricuculum Connections/Outcomes Students will demonstrate their ability to read for literary experience by examining, constructing, and extending meaning from stories, plays, poems, and other works of fiction.
Information Literacy

AASL: 1, 2, 3
Technology Literacy

MSDE MTLSS: 1, 2, 3, 4 (5 if Internet research is used)

ISTE NETS: 1a, 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b

Media Literacy CML Core Concepts 1, 2, 3, 4
Learning Styles Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Tactile, Active, Reflective, Global, Analytical, Field Independent
Skills
  • Research
  • Lyric Writing
  • Script Writing
  • Storyboarding
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Performing
  • Camera Techniques
  • Computer Editing
Production Environment Field Production
Activities
  1. Research topic: Sample: Music Video
  2. Write lyrics and choose music
  3. Storyboard
  4. Write script
  5. Plan production
  6. Rehearse
  7. Shoot and compile
  8. Edit final product
  9. Present/ share
Differentiation
  • Assign production roles appropriate to student needs and/or abilities
  • Extended time
Assessment Suggestions Music Video rubric
Extension
  • Submit to a contest
  • Peer critique and/or gallery walk
  • Submit to BCPS Education Channel
  • Upload to Safari or SchoolTube
  • Embed in a PowerPoint presentation
  • Add to electronic portfolio
  • Broadcast school wide