Immigrant Hall of Fame Part Two

Movie Grading Rubric

20 Points

Create a video using Movie Maker 2.0 or 2.1 or iMovie. In this video, the product must use still digitalpictures, and words of text to present the biography of your famous immigrant.. The entire video together should tell a story.

The video is to be rendered as QuickTime or Movie Playerand saved to your flashdrive.

Video should have the following:

  1. Introduction
  2. Body (the storyline)
  3. Conclusion
  4. Text as captions or titles
  5. A minimum of 12 slides
  6. Musical selection appropriate for content

CATEGORY / Exceeds Requirements= 2.5 points / Meets Requirements = 2 points / Partially Meets Requirements= 1 point / Does not Meet Requirements = 0 points
  1. Content/Story
/ Video covers topic in-depth with details and pictures that make the story line exceptional. / Includes essential pictures to make a story in the video / Includes some essential pictures about the topic but there are 1-2 unclear points of information. / No clue what is going on in this video
  1. Mechanics
/ No misspellings or grammatical errors. / No misspellings or grammatical errors. / One misspellings and/or mechanical errors. / More than 1 errors in spelling or grammar.
  1. Originality
/ Video shows a large amount of original thought. Ideas are creative and inventive. / Video shows some original thought. Work shows some new ideas and insights. / Uses other people's ideas (giving them credit), but there is little evidence of original thinking. / Uses other people's ideas, but does not give them credit.
  1. Organization
/ Content is well organized throughout the video and follows an understandable story line. / Organized, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed or out of order. / Some organization for the story. / There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts.
  1. Attractiveness
/ Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to video. / Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to video. / Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content. / Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presentation content.
  1. Software
/ Video took advantage of the many effects/transitions of Movie Maker/iMovie to create a smooth presentation / Video used two or more effects/transitions of Movie Maker/iMovie / Video used one effect of Movie Maker/IMovie / Video did not use Movie Maker/iMovie effects
  1. Music
/ Music in video matched well with the information presented. / Music was interesting but did not completely match the video / Music was not in sync with the video / There was no music used in the video
  1. Readability
/ Colors used for text are in strong contrast to the background and make it easy to read and understand text / Colors chosen for text are not in strong contrast to background / Colors chosen for text conflict or blend into background / Can’t read a word!
  1. Story line
/ Story is appropriate for the audience and tells a complete story / Story is appropriate but at times the audience loses focus on video / Story is not appropriately presented / No story line
  1. Audio
/ Audio is sufficient to hear and understand / Audio is sufficiently loud but it is difficult to understand content with the music / Audio not sufficiently loud and difficult to understand / Audio is poor.