{"id":697,"date":"2012-07-03T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=697"},"modified":"2018-02-01T00:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:57:29","slug":"guest-blogger-robyn-bykofsky-oakland-innovation-film-lab-youth-mobile-media-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/07\/03\/guest-blogger-robyn-bykofsky-oakland-innovation-film-lab-youth-mobile-media-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogger: Robyn Bykofsky Oakland Innovation Film Lab \u2013 Youth Mobile Media Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>June 25th<\/sup> 2012<\/span>
\nWritten by<\/span> Robyn Bykofsky<\/p>\n

I have been facilitating media literacy and video production workshops with Bay Area youth and educators for over 12 years and the Youth Film Lab was the experience of a lifetime.\u00a0 It was the first workshop I taught in which teens produced and edited their videos within 4.5 hours and then an hour later screened the videos to a live audience at the Oakland School of the Arts Black Box Theater.<\/span>
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\nHow did we accomplish this task? First, we had a talented and motivated group of 14 teens from all over Oakland.\u00a0 Second, TILT (the youth media program at Ninth Street Independent Film Center) and Disposable Film Festival (DFF) crafted an action-packed curriculum that had the teens on the flip cameras right away.\u00a0 Teens were able to express themselves in the hands-on video activity When People See Me<\/em>.\u00a0 This effective icebreaker allowed the teens to quickly get to know each other and therefore they were ready to jump into a brief discussion about using mobile media for social action and change. <\/span>
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\n\"\"<\/a>The next hands-on camera activity focused on Media Aesthetics and the importance of framing camera shots, sound and lighting.\u00a0 Teens were broke into teams of two to explore the neighborhood (well block radius) as they practiced different types of camera shot-sizes, angles, and movement. <\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>
\n(Example of a few of the Video Scavenger Hunt camera directions)<\/span>
\n___ \u00a0Extreme close up of a small object that has big meaning
\n___ \u00a0Smooth pan of the street
\n___ \u00a0A shot (any size and angle) of a reflection that represents YOU<\/span><\/em>
\n___ \u00a0Smooth tilt up to a positive message<\/span><\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/span>
\nOnce the group had a chance to practice and explore, it was time to move onto the main mobile media event\u2026Mobile Mission Speed Production.\u00a0 <\/em>Once again the teens broke into teams of two to brainstorm topics and themes related to success, leadership, learning, education, etc.\u00a0 Since time was limited \u2013 only 1 hour to per-production and production, each step of the process was timed.<\/span>
\nBrainstorming \u2013 5 min <\/span><\/em>
\nDeciding on an idea \u2013 5 min<\/span><\/em>
\nWriting 1-2 sentence synopsis describing the message of the short video \u2013 5 min<\/span><\/em>
\nWriting a shot list \u2013 (what will the video look like) \u2013 15 min<\/span><\/em>
\nVideo shoot \u2013 30 min<\/span><\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/span><\/em>
\n\"\"<\/a>After a very short break the production teams spent the next 2 hours editing, which included getting acquainted with iMovie \u2013 learning its advantages and limitations; making difficult editing decisions \u2013 what shots to keep? What shots to delete; add\u00a0 video transition that would lend to the storytelling; choosing royalty-free music that will help in the delivery of the message; and adding credits.<\/span>
\nDuring the teens dinner break, Katie (Managing Director of DFF), Jason (TILT Assistant Instructor), and myself (TILT Youth Media Manager) worked diligently in exporting the 6 short videos and prepping them for the Screening at 7:30pm.This was an amazing experience and I look forward to partnering with KQED and DFF for another whirlwind mobile media workshop.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nI also want to give a big shout out to the teen media makers\u2026<\/span>
\nThank you Ana, Anthony, Aramonti, Bela, Elijah, Gervonne, Jaison, Justine, Katie, Marvin, Nakia, Tiffany, Tiphereth, and Ysabelle!!!\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 25th 2012 Written by Robyn Bykofsky I have been facilitating media literacy and video production workshops with Bay Area youth and educators for over 12 years and the Youth Film Lab was the experience of a lifetime.\u00a0 It was the first workshop I taught in which teens produced and edited their videos within 4.5 … Continue reading Guest Blogger: Robyn Bykofsky Oakland Innovation Film Lab \u2013 Youth Mobile Media Workshop<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_youthmedia_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}