How can we film time?

The San Francisco Mosaic film Project

Project Overview

This is an exciting project! Students will be asked to go out into the community to film their neighborhoods and stomping grounds as individuals and groups. As a class we will compile the video footage to create an artistic mosaic of our city. All video will have the sound extracted and manipulated with either fast edit or slow motion to create a visually stimulating journey through the city. Each student will be given all of the raw video and must then edit the video to create a short 3-5 minute film set to music with an individual theme that they choose.

Grading

This is a Benchmark Portfolio project and completion of the project is mandatory in order to receive a passing grade. There will be six grades that encompass each category of the holistic rubric.

Goal

Students will explore framing video shots and thinking about angle, color, motion, movement, and sound to create mood and effect.

Use and set up video camera on a tripod
upload video clips
split clips
use video effect
time lapse and manipulate video
fade and blend music
create and use transitions
edit and snip video
create a Quicktime video