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Goal

To regularly involve the students in Journalism class to begin creating live broadcasting film and interviews throughout the various events, clubs, sports, and to bring more light to our "wow" students in our daily classes. Videography is important in schools: engages students, incorporates videos into learning, showcasing school achievements and events, enhances social media, and attracts more of an audience (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/videography-schools-why-its-important-how-get-started-bfi-media).

By opening the doors of Journalism to the proper equipment and safe uses of broadcasting, filming, editing, sharing, presenting, and documenting those moments only captured through video work.

Goal #1: Regular Interviews (sports, clubs, teachers, students, etc.).
Goal #2: Student Recognition of "wow" moments (awards, presentations, ceremony, contest winnings, etc.)
Goal #3: Working towards a daily 3-5 minute broadcast.
Goal #4: Videos to bring attention to our district Resiliency standards.
Goal #5: Quick video "commercials" to encourage students to study for tests, show kindness, attend events, dances, sports, clubs, band concerts, plays, etc.
Goal #6: Special invites/interviews of community members.
Goal #7: Showcase moments best suited for video instead of just a picture.
Goal #8: Involvement and mentorship from local TV news station.
Goal #9: Our options will continue to grow as we brainstorm and experience this with our feet on the ground running.

ELA.8.C.2.1: Present information orally, in a logical sequence, supporting the central idea with
credible evidence.
ELA.8.C.4.1: Conduct research to answer a question, drawing on multiple reliable and valid
sources, and generating additional questions for further research.
ELA.8.C.5 Creating and Collaborating
 

What will be done with my students

Our Journalism students, with the help of myself (Andrea Miles, Journalism teacher, and technology leadership member) and our Dean of Students (Mr. Case), will begin to train students on filming videos throughout the school year to highlight events, games, practices, assemblies, presentations, meetings, clubs, and school moments of "wow."

As a Journalism class, we attend every event that our school hosts (sports, plays, band concerts, club events, sporting event recognition dinners, 8th grade nights, dances, moments of celebration, and this list goes on). We often are asked to film events too, hold interviews for our school social media sites, or to share with parents/guardians/members of our community, but our resources are very limited. My students often just have to use their cell phones to record videos, and that is not fair to them, and it makes it difficult to edit, share, view, and post when students are using their own devices for these special occurrences. With video equipment, we would be able to use our materials to document these one of kind moments.

Last quarter my students created a video on the new way to contact our school counselors, that video was recorded through a cell phone. Another time this year, we created a spirit week video to "hype" up the week-through a cell phone. And the most recent need was to record an 8th grade special night event for a parent who could not attend, but wanted to see their child recognized.

By allowing us to purchase this equipment, our Journalism students would be able to attend events as a "news reporter," and host interviews with the MVP of a game, or the lead in a school play, maybe video a teacher getting an award, or attending an All Pro Dads meeting, and live streaming it for parents and families that could not attend. The list grows with every opportunity presented to our students.

Our school holds daily morning announcements, over the loud speaker intercom system. By the approval of this grant, we could begin to record morning announcements that teachers could stream into the classrooms every morning. Eventually, our plan would be to hold daily live announcements, and to engage more students then ever before in our daily telecasting.

We would regularly involve our school organizations, administration, students, and most of all-our Journalists would be able to learn new valuable tools to help in their lives of becoming a full time Journalist.

Upon Researching what we will need, this website offers quite a bit of training and suggestions for equipment needs: https://www.adorama.com/alc/school-broadcast-tv-studio/. Based on the amount of our grant, we will truly be able to identify what we can put together in the initial opening steps of our filming studio and opportunities, and add more as the years progress with more grant opportunities, fundraising, and support/outreach.

With the technology available to our students, we will begin to reach a much wider audience to keep students engaged and informed on what is happening in our school and community.

This program will continue to grow and develop from year to year, and this beginning year will be an incredible year as we partake in a new adventure changing lives one video at a time. The students are incredible in the Journalism program we currently have, and the change to grow and strengthen the program we have for our Yearbook production into a Yearbook and Broadcasting team will change lives forever.

Research study: https://sparksarts.co.uk/filmmaking-equipment-for-film-directors/  

Benefits to my students

There are many skills that we use in our day to day lives that will be enhanced by offering this opportunity to our Journalism students through this grant.

Our crew would include: camera persons, anchor and weather persons, interviewers, editors, sound editors, script writers, event coordinators, producers, and social media contact student with our counselors, Dean of Students, and Administration in the school. Students would rotate through these positions to learn them all, and become experts.

This program will take time to launch, perfect, and recruit, but with the right set up and equipment, students will learn responsibility, real-world experience, news broadcasting, social media laws/rules, confidence, ownership, and collaboration.
 

Budget Narrative

Upon researching the best "start up" equipment for a new videography film crew. The most needed equipment is listed as: camera, tri-pod, lens, lighting, audio, microphone, streaming outputs, audio mixer, headphones, internet connections, and editing software.

This initial grant request is to help get us started. The camera is equiped with two lens capabilities (close and far), the editing software is a yearly charge, which we could use on our MAC computers that we have already, the sound recorder will help with the audio recording of the interview to help truly hear the enunciation of the words in the videos.

Special Note/Request: If we could get an additional $2000, because this would help our entire school-not just our class, we could add lighting $1090, headphones for editing ($149), an iPad ($250), and an audio mixer to help take out background noises ($699).

Total Financial Request: $3200.00.(to help with entire need of school coverage).

https://www.adorama.com/alc/school-broadcast-tv-studio/ 

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