Another example of the design process in action is the brainstorming, scripting, production, and editing of video clips. It is a fun and versatile way to have students take the content they are learning and redefine it through a new medium. It can be fairly simply accomplished with even the most basic of phones now, and is really as much of an exercise in creativity, planning, and organization as it is in execution.
This is a practical skill in a world where we are constantly connecting with video. Many professional and social situations now call for some knowledge of video recording. So, by having students adapt an important scene of Shakespeare to a modern 30 second clip is an excellent way to teach students content that they can re-imagine with technology.
Here is a resource to get you started on the basics of cinematography to instil that extra production value to your process:
And instead of Shakespeare, above is our 30 second creative clip of us “passing smomething”, and here the storyboard behind it:
| Scene | Shot Description | Visual | Length | Music
FX |
Narration Dialogue |
| 1 | Two girls walking into the bathroom |
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3 seconds | ||
| 2 | Each girl entering their own stall |
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3 seconds | ||
| 3 | Stall doors close |
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3 seconds | Squeak of the door and click of the lock | |
| 4 | 2nd stall door closes |
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3 seconds | Squeak of the door and click of the lock | |
| 5 | Sara realizes that she doesn’t have toilet paper |
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3 seconds | “Tali, there’s no more toilet paper left.” | |
| 6 | Tali says she can pass the toilet paper |
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3 seconds | ||
| 7 | Tali hands over the toilet paper |
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3 seconds | “Sure Sara!” | |
| 8 | Ryans walking towards the bathroom |
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3 seconds | ||
| 9 | Flushing Toilets. |
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3 seconds | *Flushing* | |
| 10 | Ryan accidentally walks into women’s bathroom |
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3 seconds | R:“Oops, Wrong Bathroom!” |
A View to Thrill 