TV Production Lesson Plans 
Spring Semester 2008 
 

March 10 - 15

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements and Sports		 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements and Sports		 Finalize show.  Burn DVD.

Producer: Victoryrose
 

Brainstorm

Plan for Dawg Bytes Week 27:

Plan for MHS video.
Producers: Brad and Ben 
Finalize and burn DVD.

 
Film
Write
Storyboard
Edit


 

 Film
Write
Storyboard

 

March 3 - 7

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements and Sports		 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements and Sports		 Finalize show.  Burn DVD.

Producer: Charles

Brainstorm

Plan for Dawg Bytes Week 26:

Plan for MHS video.
Producers: Brad and Ben
Begin capturing and editing.
Footage of the following needs to be shot:
Academy footage of Health Science, Engineering, and IT.
ProStart Cooking
Athletics
Football
Soccer
Basketball
Softball
Soccer
CC
 
Film
Write
Storyboard
Edit


 

 Film
Write
Storyboard

Feb. 25 - 29

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements and Sports		 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements		 Finalize show.  Burn DVD.

Producer: Ashley

Brainstorm

Plan for Dawg Bytes Week 25:

Coffee House highlights - Victoryrose
Top 10 reasons why you don't want to have alternative placement as a punishment.

 

Plan for MHS video.
Producer: Brad 
Footage of the following needs to be shot:
Academy footage of Health Science, Engineering, and IT.
ProStart Cooking
Athletics
Football
Soccer
Basketball
Softball
Soccer
CC
Ask for pictures from Mr. Summers to fill in the blanks in the sports footage. 

 Go over job responsibilities.

Make work papers for each job.  Each student has to try each job before the end of the semester.

 


 

 Film
Write
Storyboard

Feb. 18 - 22

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements and Sports		 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements		 Finalize show.  Burn DVD.

Brainstorm Week 23/24.

Producer: Stefani

Plan for week 22/23
 

Add FFA footage.
 

 Film/Write/Storyboard

Feb. 11 - 15

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements and Sports		 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements		 Finalize show.  Burn DVD.

Brainstorm Week 23/24.

Producer: Stefani

Plan for week 22/23
Ben - Dune Lake helicopter story - Ben will learn to use green screen.

Stefani will learn how to edit the rest of the show.


 

 Film/Write/Storyboard

Feb. 4 - 8

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements and Sports		 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements		 Finalize show.  Burn DVD.

Brainstorm Week 22.

Lindsey = Producer

  

 

Plan for Week 22:

Law - Green screen - Book talk on 13 reasons why


 

 Film

Jan. 28 - Feb. 1

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements and Sports		 Film
Edit
Club News; Gen Announcements		 Finalize show.  Burn DVD.

Brainstorm Week 21.

April Jae = Producer

 Watch the winning Jim Harbin Videos for 2007.

 

Plan for Week 21:

Valentine Shout Outs
Book Talk
Basketball Semi-finals
Montage - How many hours a week do you work?
 

 Film

Jan 22 - 25

 

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Out of School Objective: Tape sports; capture video
Complete montage for Walker piece.
 		 Objective: Finalize show. Burn DVD.

Reflection Exercise
 

Jobs sign-up.
Producer: Josh
Brainstorm ideas for show.  Suggestions: Mr. MHS, Book Talk
FCAT tips
Spotlight on FCAT Wednesdays.
Souper Bowl Update

 Read Aloud: Chapter 2 A Long Way Gone.
Venn Diagram:Compare and contrast the chapter with the film trailer for Blood Diamond.
Camera Angles: While watching the trailer, students will analyze the angles used to in the film.  They will attempt to incorporate these angles in Week 20's show.

Film (Dependent on what producer chooses to focus on during Wednesday's class.)

 

 Film and Capture video. (Dependent on what producer chooses to focus on during Wednesday's class.)

 

 

Jan 14 - 18 (Week 18)

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Objective: Film and Edit Tuesday's show.

Storyboard Week 19's show.
Ideas: MLK
Book Talk
Poetry Coffee House at Gazebo (Puig is contact)
Video game review
In-depth sporting event

Assignments for Week 19's show:
Producer: Brad
Assistant Editor: April Jae
Anchors: Stephanie, Ashley and Josh
Reporters: Ben, and Tyler
Camera: Victoryrose
Teleprompter/Writer: Lindsey

 

 To Do: Finalize show.  Burn DVD.

Reflection Exercise

Objective: Students will learn to write a news story.  Reteach format.
Click here to access a guide for writing a news story.

 Objective: Students will watch a video about importing footage into Final Cut Pro.
Vocab:
Rule of Thirds
Capture
Import		 Film (Dependent on what producer chooses to focus on during Monday's class.)

Cornell Notes: Review the following web site.  Set up your cornell notes page. 
Left side = news story
Right side = Camera angles used to tell the story.

Camera Angles

 Film (Dependent on what producer chooses to focus on during Monday's class.)

 

Jan 7 - 11 (Week 17)

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
TV Production

Standards
Covered Each Week

 Storyboard Show:
General
Clubs
Sports
News stories:
Souper Bowl of Caring

 

 Guest Speaker:
Bobeth Yates

Vocab: Rule of Thirds

 Develop new format for show.
Intro: 20 Seconds
Anchor Announcements: 2 minutes
Special Features: 2-4 minutes
Shout Outs: - 2 minutes

Assignments for week:

Producer: Ben
Assistant Editor: April Jae
Anchors: General = Tyler, Jacquez, and Brad
Reporters: Stephanie, Ashley and Lindsey
Teleprompter: Victoryrose
Writers: Charles, Victoryrose
 

 

 Objective: Students will learn the basics of writing news stories.

 

 Film show

Assessment: Teacher observation