/ Team member names:
Task: - “Story of your lives” Movie
Produce a movie about the lives of the members of your team. Your team has been selected so that the members come from diverse backgrounds. In your movie try and show the similarities and differences of each team member’s life experience.
During this task, as a member of a group, you will:
  • collect moving images and sounds using a digital video.
  • store the images and sounds the images and sounds on magnetic tape in sequential order
  • transmit the images and sounds from the camera and receive them on the personal computer
  • retrieve and organise the sounds and images using MS Movie Maker software,
  • during the editing phase you can also collect text for your credits and use the analysing functions of Movie Maker to produce tailored effects in the movie and credits, and finally
  • display your finished movie using the digital data projector.

Task type: Group Task / Allotted time
Term 2
Weeks 1 - 4
Deliverables: / U - Requirements Report (week 1)
M - Feasibility Report (early week 2)
D - Design Report (mid week 2)
I - System Documentation (end week 3)
TEM - Evaluation (week 4).
Refer to the marking rubric for how this assessment will be evaluated
the movie must not contain any social or ethically inappropriate material.

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Project (System) Development Cycle

Understand the problem

  • Read the project brief and think about what you will need to do. Write out a short problem statement clearly describing what you plan to do.
  • Develop a Gantt Chartas the basis for your project.
  • Collate your problem statement and project plan. This known as your Requirements Report. Due week 1

Making Decisions

  • Most projects have a range of constraints associated with them. These constraints typically fall into one of four main categories: economic or financial; organisational, technical and scheduling
  • For this project there are no financial constraints. If you do not have a video camera you can use the school’s. From a technical perspective you may need some instruction on how to use a camera, transfer the video to the computer and use. Your teacher will provide this instruction if needed. From an organizational perspective you may need to allocate tasks within your group. From a scheduling perspective you will need to keep your eye on your Gantt chart to make sure you stay on track. You may also need to book access to the video camera if you don’t have one of your own.
  • During this phase it would be a good idea to use the camera to make a simple prototype of your movie. All this needs to be is a few seconds of video that you collect, transmit to the computer and analyse using movie maker.
  • When you have completed your prototype. Submit a simple Feasibility Report advising that you know how to use the Camera and movie Maker to produce a movie. End of Week 1 or start of Week 2.

Designing the Solution & Making the movie presentation

  • Plan your movie using a Linear Storyboard.
  • Submit your movie storyboard as your Design Report. Due Mid Week 2.
  • Collect, store ,transmit & receive, organize and analyse images, sounds and text using MS Movie Maker,

Implementing

Transmit your movie to the teacher as directed. Due by end of Week 3.

Testing, Evaluating and Maintaining

Check that your movie functions as intended on the teacher’s laptop computer. Due by end of Week 3. Display movie for final evaluation using the overhead digital projector. (During week 4). Consider entering your movie in a school or external showing. This may require future adjustments (maintaining) to your product to meet changing requirements or needs.

Assessment Rubric

Expert / Proficient / Competent / Apprentice / Novice
TECHNICAL - VIDEO & SOUND
40 / 39 / 38 / 37 / 36 / 35 / 34 / 33 / 32 / 31 / 30
Large variety of elegant scenes with appropriate and relevant sound effects / Variety of scenes with appropriate sound effects / Some scenes with some appropriate sound effects / Few scenes, mainly inappropriate sound effects / Limited scenes and sounds
CONTENT & STORYLINE
40 / 39 / 38 / 37 / 36 / 35 / 34 / 33 / 32 / 31 / 30
Fully developed storyline with extensive similarities and differences / Appropriate storyline with many similarities and differences / Random storyline with some similarities and differences / Confusing storyline / Inappropriate storyline
TITLES, CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10
Attractive titles and innovative credits
Correct and thorough citations / Effective titles and credits.
Correct and relatively thorough citations / Limited titles, credits and citations / Poor use of titles, credits and citations / No titles, credits and citations

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