Monkeysee.Com Is a Website Like Youtube.Com but It Is Purely a Website for Instructional

Scenario

Monkeysee.com is a website like youtube.com but it is purely a website for instructional videos. People have helped the website grow by creating instructional videos for all types of things such as cooking instructions, soccer skills, video game walk-throughs or gardening tips.

You must create an instructional video of between 45 and 90 seconds in length to demonstrate or teach people how to do something useful. The top 2 videos nominated by your class will be sent to monkeysee.com come to upload.

This unit requires that you conduct research, prepare a script, and record your own video. Your teacher may be able to lend you a video camera, or you may choose to use your own camera (or even a mobile phone, if the video quality is good enough).

There are infinite ideas, so be creative, but to get you thinking, here are a few examples that you may choose to do:

• How to do something on the computer eg. add an attachment to an email (you will need to use screen-capture software and a microphone to record the screen and your voice).
• How to do something sporty eg. how to take a penalty (you will need to have a reasonable video camera to record the video).
• How to do something musical eg. how to play the main chords on a guitar (again, you will need a reasonable video camera that can do close-ups of the fret board).
• How to make something eg. how to bake a cake (again, your video camera will need to be good enough for the close-ups).

Before you decide to do this scenario, you must consider the following factors:

• The subject must be suitable for all audiences, and not be offensive or inappropriate for a classroom.
• It must be something that you can demonstrate or teach sufficiently within the tight time limit (45-90 seconds).
• Do you have (or can you borrow) a camera/camera phone that is good enough? It doesn't have to be High-Def, since the video is intended to be uploaded to the Internet, and therefore would not be in as good a quality as a TV broadcast. Take a look at videos already on Monkeysee.com and compare them to the video from your own camera/phone. Your video should be clear enough to see what is going on and should not be blocky, blurred or jerky due to a poor frame rate as this would put people off watching your video. It should also be recorded without the camera being to shaky. If you're not sure, show your teacher a sample and ask for advice.
• Your video must be suitable for upload to a video-sharing site. These sites have restrictions on what you can upload... the following restrictions apply to Monkeysee videos:
• You cannot use copyright protected music, images or video in your production.
• There is a maximum file size limit of 100Mb for uploaded videos, and so your's cannot be larger than this.
• Are you prepared to do the extra work involved in this scenario?

Task 1: Review Existing Video Clips

Assessment Objective 1

1A

Create a new folder in your 'my documents' area for your OCR ICT Unit 23 work. Everything you download/create for this unit should be saved in this folder (you may use sub-folders, but this is not necessary).

1B

You must You must select two clips from the following list. The video clips you choose should be different types (eg. you cannot review two music videos).

You will find the clips in the following shared area folder

My Computer → Shared Drive (w) → ICT → Mr Mulla → Year 10 → OCR → Unit 23 → Videos

1C

You must now review the two clips that you have chosen.

WHAT TO WRITE IN EACH SECTION:

Download from: my computer → shared documents(w) → ICT → Mr Mulla → Year 10 → OCR → Unit 23

1D
i) Your description on the aim of the video clip must include:

• The purpose - Why was the video clip made? How you know this?
• The audience - Who is the video clip aimed at? (eg. adults / teens / children / families / boys / men / girls / women / people with certain lifestyles, jobs or hobbies / etc...)

Rather than simply listing the good features, not-so-good features, and possible improvements, you should provide detailed explanations of each, giving reasons for each item you listed.
eg. "The clip should have better quality sound because it is about a new music single and the sound is not very good."

1E
All of your descriptions must be correct and thorough and you should suggest a range of valid improvements to help the video clip meet its aims.
HOW: In the possible improvements section, you should link each suggested improvement to the aim of the video clip, and you should explain how making the improvements will help the clip to better meet the aim.
Eg. "The clip should have better quality sound because I found it difficult to appreciate the song with the quality of sound that has been used. The aim of the video clip is to convince people to buy a new music single and they would be more likely to do this if they enjoyed listening to the clip."

TASK 2 – Designing a video

You must design a storyboard for your movie. A storyboard is a series of sketches and descriptions that explain what will happen in your movie - a little like a cartoon strip.

Download the Storyboard Word file and use this as a template for your storyboard. There is space for four clips, but you can add more simply by copying the boxes. Click here to learn how to use the storyboard template.

You can either:
- Complete the storyboard on the computer (and save the file to your unit 23 folder)
or:
- Print out the storyboard document and do it by hand (remember to attach this to your unit 23 folder).

To Achieve a Merit you need:

• Your description of the aim and audience should be accurate.
• Your storyboard should cover the main elements of your movie, and descriptions should be very clear about what you are planning.
• The design must have a clear structure. It will, for example, have a clear beginning, middle and end.

To Achieve a Distinction

• Your description of the aim and audience should be thorough, giving clear reasons for each comment.
• Your storyboard will cover all the elements of your movie.
• The design is well structured. This means your storyboard must be well organised with a clear beginning, middle and end. It must also clearly satisfy the aim and audience. Your choices of transition, effects, audio, etc. must have a reason for being used, and you will explain this in your descriptions of each.

TASK 3 – Creating a video

You must create your movie according to the plan you created in task 2. At this stage, you should not make changes to the plan as you go along, since task 4 will allow you to make improvements. Don't worry if your final video doesn't work exactly as you planned (eg. some effects not working properly, video too long, etc...), you will still pass the task - although your final movie must be at least 45 seconds long.

You will need to add a few screenshots to the PowerPoint as you work to show that you have used certain skills in order to create your movie. The easiest way to do this is to press the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard and then paste the screenshot into the correct slide.

In order to PASS this task, you only need to complete the following slides:

1. Title page - add your full name where it says "Student's Name".

2. Importing a video clip - add a screenshot to show how you have imported at least one video clip.

3. You do not need to complete this slide.

4. Trimming a clip - add a screenshot to show how you have trimmed or split at least one video clip, to make it shorter.

5. Adding a transition - add a screenshot to show how you have added at least one transition between video clips.

6. You do not need to complete this slide.

7. You do not need to complete this slide.

8. Adding a soundtrack - add a screenshot to show how you have added a soundtrack or narration (voice-over) to some or all of your movie.

9. Exporting the movie (see task 3D, below) - do not add a screenshot to this slide... instead you should type in answers to each prompt:
- Name of file created (the name of your final video to be marked)
- Video format (the video format eg. Windows Media / AVI / Quicktime / etc)
- Video quality (the resolution of the final video eg. TV quality / DVD quality / HD / etc; and the frame rate eg. 24 frames per second)
- Audio quality (the sound quality used eg. radio quality / CD quality / etc)

To achieve a merit you should add screenshots to the following slides:

3. Importing an image / sound - add a screenshot showing how you imported either an image or a sound file. Edit the slide title so that it reads correctly (eg. "Importing a sound").

6. Adding an effect - add a screenshot to show how you have added at least one effect to your movie.

7. Adding titles / credits - Add a screenshot to show how you have added text to your movie.

Additionally:

• The movie you create must be appropriate (eg. use of audio, effects, transitions, etc.).
• You should make good use of each of the skills you demonstrated in the PowerPoint.
• Most of the elements of your movie should work as planned in task 2.

To achieve a Distinction:

Export your final movie to a suitable format.

When you finish creating your video clip in the video editing program, you must export it, which means creating a single file that can be opened on different computers. When you export a video file, there are a number of factors you need to consider:

• File format - different programs will provide you with different options of the type of video file you create. There are many video file formats, but some of the most common are explained in “video file format.doc” in the shared area.
• Video quality - the resolution of the video file should be selected to best suit its intended use (eg. if it is for TV then it should match a TV's resolution). However, there is no point in saving the file to a higher resolution than the original file that the clips are made from. Additionally, the larger the resolution, the higher the file size. The video quality is also affected by the frame rate (how many frames make up each second of video). The higher the frame rate, the smoother the video will be - and the larger the video file size (eg. a video showing 24 frames per second will be around twice the size of one with only 12 frames per second). The most common resolutions and frame rates used in the UK are shown in the “common screen sizes.doc” in the shared area.
• Audio quality - the quality of the sound, which can sometimes be altered separately to the video quality. The higher the sound quality, the larger the file size. The three main settings that affect the sound quality are explained in the “audio_file_quality.doc”.

Task 4 – Testing The Video Clip

In order to complete Task 4 you must test your video clip thoroughly and make improvements to your clip based on the testing outcomes.

4A
Download the “Test_the video_clip.doc” Word file and save this to your unit 23 folder from:

My Computer  Shared Documents  ICT  Mr Mulla Year 10  OCR Unit 23

In order to PASS this task, you need to complete FOUR of the tests in the table and identify some areas for improvement. You do not need to make any of the improvements to your movie.

To achieve a Merit:
(i) You need to complete FIVE tests which are appropriate to your movie.

(ii) You must also make at least one of the improvements that you suggested. Your improved movie should be saved with the word "improved" added to the file name (eg. the improved version of "My Film" would be saved as "My Film improved").

To achieve a Distinction:

(i) You need to complete at least SIX tests, covering all main areas of your movie, all of which will be appropriate.

(ii) You must also action most (or all, if possible) of the improvements that you suggested.