Creating a video project (Part 2)

Welcome back to the second part of this project. As you should know if you read the last entry, my team and I are creating a video for a social science lesson. We already have the storyboard, which you can see in the already mentioned post. Now it's time to record!

mohamed_hassan (CC BY 4.0)

To record a good video we need a camera, a place and costumes if needed. In this case, the place will be a village on the outside of the city and we will need some costumes to seem 12th-century villagers. Regarding the camera, we will make use of our phones for most of the scenes. There are many other resources that we can use for creating and improving the video such as green chroma or clip-on microphones. We won't make use of these, but we have another interesting tool: a drone! I recently got my AESA drone operator certificate so I was looking forward to using it. What a better opportunity than creating a video for our students?! 

Buitrago de Lozoya

Once we have recorded the clips, the next step is to edit them. We have a variety of tools to use here, but usually, the most complete ones are paid or limited. In this case, we are using iMovie but I can recommend you others like Blender, Lightworks, or Shotcut. I'm not a professional filmmaker, but I have recorded and edited some videos for my friends. It has always been in terms of humor so I thought I could apply some of the things I learned to this project. Using special visual effects and including epic soundtracks is great to make the video more interesting. Furthermore, to end up, you can add some funny bloopers. We did it this time for you to see the funny part of the procees, but we would eliminate them for the class.

The final step is to upload it to the network. We all know who is the big boss of multimedia videos on the internet: Youtube. In fact, this is the one we have decided to use, but there are others like Vimeo or Dailymotion. You can also upload it to your Drive and share it privately. Remember to put a striking title! Our video will be titled "Back to 1256". Once you have it on the Internet you just have to give the link to your students or reproduce it in class. That's up to you.

As I said in the previous entry, our intention is to use it as an introduction to the lesson. But before our students, maybe you can watch the video and tell us in the comments what you think about it... We hope you enjoy it! And remember to visit Sandra's, Diego's, and Carlota's blogs!!!