SEVA Teacher Training Series
SECC offers this workshop series to provide resources and inspiration to teachers with students interested in video production.
SEVA 2010 Kick-off Event and Training at Inderkum High School, October 17, 2009
Link to resources instructors used to make their presentations:
Creating Public Service Announcements
Brad Clark, Franklin High School
Creating a PSA gives your students an opportunity to learn the art of editing a big idea into a short, succinct message. Brad will discuss how to identify and research PSA ideas, show examples of award-wining student work and discuss low-budget techniques for obtaining quality sound and video images.
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Building a Documentary: Tips for Creating a Video Story
Bryan Shadden, KVIE
Learn steps that will help your students create a documentary video and understand more about the overall process: research, story focus, creating an outline, writing, interviewing tips, voiceover and more. Bryan is a producer for KVIE’s weekly series, ViewFinder, a locally produced series about the Sacramento community.
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Copyright, Fair Use & Royalty Free Resources
Gail Desler, Elk Grove USD
Explore the distinction between material that should be licensed, material that is in the public domain and copyrighted material that is subject to fair use. Learn about royalty free resources for your classroom and the SEVAs.
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Basic Lighting, Sound and Camera
Doug Niva, SECC
Learn the basics about lighting, microphones, cameras, framing your shots and shooting interviews.
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SEVA 2009 Kick-off Event and Training
at Serna Center, Sacramento City USD
October 4, 2008
SECC and partner News10 sponsored this free training day to inspire teachers to get their students involved in SECC’s 2009 Student Educational Video Awards (SEVA) contest. The sessions provided guidance and ideas for video production, equipment recommendations, production techniques, software training, broadcast journalism techniques and more.
Filmmaking in the Classroom
In a rapidly changing world and workforce, students need multiple literacies, including media literacy. Gail Desler, Elk Grove Unified School District, explores the case for filmmaking in the curriculum and shows some simple, free programs for bringing this 21st century literacy into your teacher's toolkit.
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Podcasting
Explore the basics of podcasting and the tools needed to publish digital media with a really simple explanation of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Joe Parente, CSUS media professor, discusses how to use podcasts to monitor the progression of student achievement and how these findings can help you adjust your instructional techniques. He uses podcasting in his instruction and explains how students can also share their accomplishments through podcasts and other digital media publishing.
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Creating a Daily Campus Newscast
Brian Weitzel, Carnegie Middle School teacher, has helped his students produce a daily newscast for several years. In this session, he explores the value of a live, school site broadcast and provides tips to get one started at your school.
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Broadcast Journalism Techniques
Michael Langley, News10 Assistant News Director, discusses the basic tenets of broadcast journalism and provides guidelines on how to find, research, write, edit, produce and deliver accurate and engaging news stories to your viewers.
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::: Series Archive :::
Creating Documentary Video Productions at KVIE
February 12, 2009
Sponsored by SECC and KVIE, this workshop featured presentations by KVIE producers on the step-by-step process of creating short and long format documentary video production.
TIPS FOR CREATING A VIDEO STORY
by Bryan Shadden, KVIE Producer
KVIE STUDENT VIDEO SUBMISSION FORM
THE WAR: A Ken Burns Film —
Conducting and Preserving Interviews
This guide — a collaboration between the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, Florentine
Films and WETA public television station in Washington, DC — contains hands-on production tips
and interview techniques from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick as well as information on how to send
completed interviews to the Veterans History Project. This guide was created to help individuals and
groups research, conduct and preserve the stories of our nation’s veterans and to ensure that they
become a part of our country’s collective and permanent history.
VISIT PBS TO LEARN MORE AND DOWNLOAD THE FIELD GUIDE
Andrew Carnegie Middle School Training
January 22, 2009
Event included a tour of the Carnegie MS studio and video production lab; Q & A with video production students on how they make videos for their school and the SEVAs; information about SEVA copyright rules; and resources for making copyright-cleared productions.
Copyright & Fair Use Resources for Educators (pdf)
PDF contains:
• General Info About Copyright & Fair Use
• SEVA Copyright Policy and Releases
• Creative Commons & Free Music Resources
• Royalty Free Buyout Music Resources
• Licensing Music Resources
• Creative Commons Image Resources
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Creating Your Own Music
Carnegie Middle School band teacher Mark Tulga teaches Apple’s GarageBand to his music students so they can create original music to integrate with media.
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Create Your SEVA Video in Nine Steps
Creating your first SEVA video? This video, featuring Carnegie Middle School video production students, walks you through nine simple steps to build a SEVA contest video.
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