SO PBS Education A/V PD RATIONAL & OVERVIEW

Southern Oregon PBS Education’s mission is to strengthen Southern Oregon’s workforce by developing industry standard media arts (video) and digital storytelling skills among K-12 media arts teachers, who will in turn pass these skills on to their students. Our Education Coordinator, Ben Garcia, over two years has been trained by PBS Newshour to conduct video production teacher professional development, which he provides for local video teachers who are Audio/Video instructors (A/V ). The PD training detailed below in the "Scope and Sequence"  is a component to not only meeting SO PBS Education's mission, but also an immense support as a teacher gains the PD necessary to maintain their teaching license, apply for a CTE teaching license or apply for a new A/V related license. This PD prepares aspiring A/V educators to be mentors to aspiring student videographers and/or student video journalists. It also lays the foundation for A/V teachers who may consider applying to have a PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs class someday in the near future. Having video teachers trained by local industry professionals, in association with SO PBS and PBS Newshour, ultimately assists our local students not only learn professional level video production skills, and also Journalism skills, but will help them stratify into local media arts related careers or media arts college pathways of study. This PD is a prerequisite for any A/V teacher considering to enroll in this next level PD course: SO PBS / PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs PD​.

OBJECTIVES (outcomes/targets)

• By the end of this PD local media arts teacher participant will have the basic hard/soft video production skills needed to effectively teach an intro level videography or related class.

• By the end of this PD a local media arts teacher will have been trained how to modify, differentiate, and effectively teach some intro level PBS Newshour Student Reporting Labs video lesson plans.

ENROLLMENT: Please contact the instructor for this course (Ben’s contact info below) before enrolling for this course so you can meet at the station (or via Zoom) and receive the official SO PBS Education presentation to understand this commitment between you, your school and SO PBS. Also, this meeting is necessary to determine if this PD is the right fit for your current and long term education environment/circumstances.

Goals for participating educator to work towards

• Acquire Entry Level Industry Equipment

  • One Entry Level Videographer Kit = Canon 90D camera or better, Magnus VT 3000 Tripod or better, Rode RodeLink FM Digital Wireless mic or better, field production LED lights, batteries, & protective accessories like camera cases, protective UV lense filters, etc.

• Teacher must have basic familiarity with cameras, video production & audio (having tought a yearbook class or having an A/V related hobby is helpful)

  • Teachers must like cameras, the video production process (pre-production, production, & post production) and in general making videos for a variety of purposes (e.g. proof of performance videos, promotional videos, video interviews, etc.)

• Teacher must have a video related class he/she can incorporate this industry level video knowledge and skills into

• In following years (yr 2 or 3) have returning or advanced students submit video work to SO PBS for airing considerations

Note: In Year 2 of this PD these "Goals" become requirements in order to continue a PD relationship with SO PBS (in year two or three SO PBS may consider airing only the best student videos once partnership is established and students start producing/submitting videos to them). Also, A/V teacher will be encouraged to encorporate a few PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs lesson into his/her class in year one of this industry partnership.

DAYS/TIMES: To be determined by S.O. PBS Education Coordinator and teacher participant (usually once a week outside of video class)

PDU CREDIT: 25 - 50 depending on attendance throughout the school year (teacher, with the support of S.O. PBS Education Coordinator Ben Garcia, will keep track of hours. Mr. Garcia will issue a PD Certificate at the end of agreed upon training period)

SO PBS Education Department Professional Development Scope and Sequence

(Semester/Trimester I. 2020 (16-18 weeks) Intermediate videography PD)

1. Fall Quarter Unit #1: Basic Videography

   1. Intro to Anatomy of the camera: Holding a camera, care and safety of equipment, form of the DSLR, information display on LCD panels, basic settings: camera modes, auto versus manual, setting movie recording size/resolution, formatting media

   2. Intro to Camera stabilization: Types of camera motion, the mobile frame--when and why to move the camera, parts of the tripod, safe and effective tripod operation, other types of stabilization 

   3. Intro to Exposure: luminance and color, assessing exposure, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, histogram, white balance

   4. Intro to Lenses: manual aperture adjustment, f-stop, focal length and field of view, types of lenses, auto and manual focus, critical and acceptable focus, lens distortion, shallow and deep focus, depth of field.

   5. Intro to Composition: shot types, camera angle, balanced and unbalanced compositions, rule of thirds, eye-line, screen direction, lead room/nose room   

2. Fall Quarter 2020 Unit #2: Basic Editing (Adobe premiere basics)

   1. Intro to File management, premiere workspaces and interface, video formats, bins and organization, ingesting, importing

   2. Intro to Basic editing, timelines and sequences, video transitions

   3. Intro to Audio editing, linking/delinking, audio transitions, stereo and mono audio, organizing audio in sequences

   4. Intro to Using effects, motion and duration effects, simple animation, titles

   5. Intro to continuity techniques: shot/reverse shot, glance cuts, match on action, graphic match, audio bridge, etc.

   6. Intro to Exporting video files and publishing video files on various media platforms

3. Fall Quarter 2020 - Basic Audio and Lighting (Optional PD)

   1. Intro to sound and hearing: nature of sound, the sound wave, frequency, pitch, amplitude, loudness, phase, envelope and timbre.

   2. Intro to digital audio: quantization, sample rate, digital audio formats, compressed and uncompressed audio formats

   3. Intro to recorders: anatomy of the recorder, basic controls, removable media, information display on LCD panels, basic menu settings, audio meter, -12 dB target for audio, audio peaking and distortion, signal to noise ratio  

   4. Intro to microphones: anatomy of a microphone, transducers, dynamic vs condenser mics, pickup patterns, special purpose microphones for video (lavalier, shotgun), wireless vs wired microphones, boom pole, cables, shock mounts, connectors, sources of noise

   5. Intro to production: choosing sound environments, studio recording, field recording, narration, dialogue, sound design 

   6. Intro to creative sound: voice, music, effects, diegetic and non-diegetic sound, sound parallels picture, sound defines picture, picture defines sound, sound counterpoint