Video has a lot of creative
potential for personal practice as well as the art classroom. Videos can be
used to inform, tell a story or for fun to experiment with editing. One
downside to video editing, however, is that it is a bit slow and time consuming,
so when planning for an art classroom the project assignment should take this
into consideration. Though video can be done alone it is much easier to work
with a team and assign different roles. This can be good for the classroom
because it will help with collaborating and team building.
In the art classroom, videos can be
used when teaching a lesson as well as for a project. When teaching a lesson
you can use videos to show how materials work, time lapse videos of a process,
step by step examples, art history videos and many other videos to enhance a
lesson in the classroom. Videos can be an interesting and easy way to get
information across to a group of students. Video can also be used as a medium
in the art classroom. Videos can allow students to tackle multiple tasks at
once. If telling a story they need to plan their placement in the recording,
how they record, what they will say and how they will edit it together. This
gives students the opportunity to be creative in a variety of ways. When it
comes to editing the video, there are many different directions that students
can go with this. Even when given a prompt and a video example, like we were in
class, the student responses will be vastly different. This can be interesting
for students to see how others respond to the same prompt in very different
ways.
Videos are a great way to be
creative. Videos are in our everyday life and students see a variety of videos
daily. This means that it is something they are aware of and most likely
interested in in some form or another. When working with students I think it’s
important to impose limitations when it comes to editing. Students will most
likely try to achieve effects that they have seen before; unaware of the amount
of knowledge/skill and time this would actually take them too complete. There
are so many different components of video that you can focus on in a classroom
that it really opens the door in a variety of directions. There are three main areas: planning the
video, shooting the video and editing the video. All three can make for
interesting lessons on their own as well as in combination with one another.
Video has a great amount of potential for the classroom.
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