2020-21 High School Course Selection Guide


purposes and contexts. Students will demonstrate proficiency by creating multimedia products for our social media-centric culture. Students will produce a daily broadcast for school, and produce content for a school appropriate social media channel. Students will explore many topics such as: newsroom production, script writing, journalism ethics, news and social media judgment, interview, studio and remote shooting, production staging, directing, and editing. Students will be expected to work in front and/or behind the camera for this class, and will also demonstrate technical proficiency in the use of modern media production tools.


Video Production 1 (9, 10, 11, 12) .5 credit/semester course


Neutrally Weighted


This course provides students the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of video production using current industry standard equipment and software. Skills taught will include camera operation, audio recording, video editing, and digital age team collaboration and interpersonal skills. These skills are required and benefit students in high school and in all post-secondary settings. Students will create personal videos for a portfolio including -- but not limited to -- a personal narrative, storytelling, and a documentary.


Video Production 2 Honors (10, 11, 12) 1 credit


Students become content creators in narrative genres and documentary genres. Storytelling technique is emphasized in all projects as students continue to refine their use of equipment and editing techniques with increasing sophistication towards professionalization to match current industry practices. Emphasis is placed on collaboration to complete projects by leveraging the skills of the collective production team. Students will learn the different job roles of writer, producer, director, cinematographer, audio specialist, gaffer, and editor with successive projects, so that each student may start to articulate his/her individual film making voice.


Prerequisite: Video Production and permission instructor.


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Video Production 3 Honors (11, 12) 1 credit Individual expression is explored and encouraged


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in this year of study. Students will create a large- scale individual professional quality project or multiple smaller professional quality projects that are thematically or genre linked. Additionally, students are required to collaborate on at least two other student projects of similar rigor. The third year offers students the opportunity to create a professional portfolio of products that demonstrate independence and professionalism as content creators. The portfolio may address one or many content areas of video production. The portfolio may be used for: college applications, career applications, social activism, artistic expression, and/or entrepreneurial endeavors. While students work on larger scale individual projects they will learn organizational competence through project management techniques related to pre-production, production, post production, marketing, and stakeholder relations.


Prerequisite: Video Production 2 and permission of instructor.


Video Options* Up to 1 credit


Neutrally Weighted Individual expression is explored and encouraged


in this course of study. This course is for the video student that is already signed up for a video class but would like to take additional video training in the same year. For that reason, the teacher and student will map out an individual area of focused study aimed at enriching the student further than they would be in any of the other video classes.


*Tis course is based on availability and room within a student’s schedule and may only be selected after the school year begins.


ELL


All ELL courses are standards based and may be used as English credit. Technology is used to enhance learning.


ELL 1A 1 credit


ELL 1A emphasizes academic and interpersonal communication skills in the English language. Students whose primary or home language is other than English benefit from this class. Students learn vocabulary, background knowledge, and strategies through direct instruction, content, and technology.


Level: Entering and Beginning


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