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Producing a quality documentary entry for National History Day 2010TRANSCRIPT
DocumentariesDocumentariesProducing Quality
Terry Kidd, HISD CurriculumTerry Kidd, HISD Curriculum
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History Fair Theme
• Innovation in History: Impact and Change, will challenge your students to uncover innovations that have changed history.
• As the students select different research topics, they must decide if and how certain innovations have changed history.
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Questions to Consider• Why did this innovation happen at this particular time and in this
particular place?
• In what ways was the innovation new?
• What need in society did the innovation fill and what changes occurred to society because of the innovation?
• What benefits did the innovation provide, and to whom?
• How did people react initially, in the short term (within a few years), and over the longer term (in later years), to the new idea, arrangement, organization, or technology?
• How did it change people’s ideas, scientific knowledge, everyday behavior, political processes, etc.
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The Challenges • Allow students the opportunity to seek
meaningful connections with the history fair theme as they produce a quality documentary for competition.
• This is accomplished through knowing the content, the technology, and the history fair guidelines.
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Elements of A Quality Documentary
Audience - Stories have a particular audience in mind.
Purpose - Stories are trying to accomplish a task (inform, educate, entertain)
Content - Content must be meaningful. Content adds to the story.
Voice - Stories are told from a specific perspectives and uses the tellers voice to enrich the story.
Technology - Technology is used to extend the story (ie. graphics, audio, and video).
Connections - Good stories connect with the participants.
Economy - Stories tell enough to get the point across and no more.
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Telling the Story
• A good documentary also uses: – Seamless integration of the narrative – There is a connect with the content
• The narratives know and understand the materials
– Includes a combination of medias including quality graphics that relate and video clips.
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Planning Steps• Brainstorm an idea for your story.
• Consider audience and purpose.
• Develop a narrative script.
• Create a simple storyboard to determine the sequence of the story.
• Collect or create images for the story
• Identify music for soundtrack
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• Photo Story 3 (Free from Microsoft)http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
• Movie Maker (Free from Microsoft)http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx
• Audio - GoldWave (Free from Goldwave)http://www.goldwave.com/
• System Requirements (Requires Windows XP & Windows Media Player 10) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/
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Tools for Creating Documentaries
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Finding Images & Audio on the Web
Image Search Engines• Google• Picsearch• AltaVista• Library of Congress• Digital History
Audio Search Engines
• AltaVista
• Singing Fish
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A Few Words about Copyright
Disclaimer: Provide source attribution and a credit/reference slide.
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Friendly Tips• Make good friends with both the tech apps and the
media arts teacher.
• Continue to use the Innovations in History Guideline as your framework as you help students create products.
• Work with your students to understand it is about the quality of the historical content and less about the bells and whistles of technology