Ken Burns Speaking to Team Vista

Ken Burns will be speaking to Team Vista on Monday October 26 via Skype.  Mr. Burns has agreed to discuss the process of making a documentary film and will take student questions.  This event is part of the kick-off for the Vista video research project.

The following are the general C-Span topics:

“One of the country’s greatest strengths”

“A challenge the country is facing”

In small groups, the students will pick more specific topics and will create their own short documentaries.. We want the students to understand that they have a voice by participating in a democracy and that even at a young age they have the ability to express themselves by producing effective visual content for an audience. Within that context we will be addressing content and craft.

Content: collaboration, effective research, the ability to discern between valid and invalid information, protection of artistic expression (copyright laws and fair use), discern between what info to use and not to use

Craft: difference between a drama and a documentary, effective coherent presentation of material, use of music, use of images (stills and moving pictures), scripting and planning, keeping audience in mind, order of information presented, impact

Description of last year’s project

Some of last year’s student videos can be viewed on the KRMS Website

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