Teaching To The Test Pattern: 116 Jessica Roberts Arlington HS Arlintgon, TN
Tom talks with Jessica Roberts from Arlington High School in Arlington, Tennessee about the AHS Tigerlife program. They discuss the program’s Recent success with the Tennessee High School Press Association, Arlington’s recent bilingual basketball broadcast and more.
A Superpower in your pocket
A cell phone can be a huge distraction for students, but it can also be an incredible tool. It’s our job as teachers to show them how to use this superpower in their pocket.
4D Filmmaking: Make your audience “feel” your story.
Skull Island: Reign of Kong. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Mixed with 3D visuals, a 4D ride incorporates sensory enhancements like heat blasts, water misters, fog machines, and seat prodders. The intention? Immerse the rider in a visual and visceral experience.
Although it may not seem obvious, filmmaking also has the ability to create the sensory enhancements of the 4D experience with the four major elements of filmmaking: sound design, mise-en-scene, cinematography, and editing.
Teaching To The Test Pattern: Roundtable #2
Adam, Josh, and Tom talk about what’s going on in their lives including Josh learning to use the Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Extreme, Adam’s VHS collection, and Tom’s hat.
Teaching To The Test Pattern: Tim Loreman Central High School - Phenix City, Alabama
This episode of Teaching To The Test Pattern gives you an introduction to Tim Loreman from Central High School in Phenix City, Alabama. Tim and his students production over 100 live productions each year including massive football productions. Tim shares how he keeps the quality up and what it takes to get his students involved.
The Biggest Production Of My Life Part 3
The ideal situation would have the streams available for people to view as easily as possible. The problem became how. In the past, the organization set up two YouTube channels and broadcast to those so the fear became that in order to do six streams we would have to create and manage six different channels… that was not going to be fun and certainly not something I was interested in doing.
Embracing AI in the Video Classroom… But Not Too Much
Artificial intelligence is making things that were once impossible, now accessible to all. Josh Dempsey gives us some ways that we can embrace the future in our video and film classrooms.
the Biggest production of my live (part 2)
A part of my job that I rarely talk about but I really love is the opportunity to give tours of our facility. Students, community members, alumni, and more all come into our space to see what we have going on. A quick look at the newsroom then the “ooh”s and “ahhs of the control room and the mezmerization (yeah, I just made up a word!) of the studio - specifically the application of chromakey and virtual sets. I love showing off what we do but recently something that was said set me back.
The biggest production of my career (part 1)
6 computers running OBS… 14 ElGato Cam Like 4k capture devices … hundreds of feet of HDMI cables… 30 microphones…. 6 audio mixers… hundreds of feet of xlr cables…. 20+ iMac computers… 3 rolls of gaffe tape… a ton of sweat.. No blood (that I know of)... no tears (that I know of)… a couple of expletives… all to produce over 125 hours of live content over two days… by far, the biggest live stream event of my life!
Super Lessons from the Big Game
While I was reading a Super Bowl recap on SportsVideo.org, I realized that there are a lot of lessons to be taken from the preparation and presentation of the Super Bowl that can be used in the classroom. The Sports Video Group’s Ken Kerschbaumer talked with Fox Sports’ Brad Zager about the preparation for the Super Bowl.
Crafting A Story
Asking teenagers to write a filmable script is akin to making a promise to yourself to lose five pounds – both endeavors begin in earnest with the best of intentions, but the end result is disappointing and never lives up to the original promise.
Where Do We Begin?
So many of us as video and film teachers find ourselves in a classroom teaching something that either we have no idea how to do or if we do know how to do it, we don’t know how to teach.
BlackMagic design actually did it!
There have been many attempts to create a real video editor for iOS devices and many failures but BlackMagic Design may have finally dialed in the right mix of iOS and magic to make it happen with their recent release of DaVinci Resolve for the iPad. Real editing tools including collaborative elements in an iPad.
The Most Needed Training series of the year: Newtek Live Story creator
Newtek released a training course for the Live Story Creator tool in the Tricaster and this is by far the most needed training series of the year.
What is NDI and How You Can Use It.
Learn about how NDI can be used in your workflow to build a better broadcast.
Teaching To The Test Pattern: Adam Logan from Rockdale Career Academy
Adam Logan from the Rockdale Career Academy in Conyers Georgia is featured in the 110th episode of Teaching To The Test Pattern.
Teaching To The Test Pattern: EP109
Tom discusses the difference between a trainer and a teacher as well as what you need to do to change from being a trainer into being a teacher
Broadcasting Crystal Ball (Remi Productions)
The explosion that came during that meeting was in the phrase “I don’t care what it takes to do what I need to do. My greatest fear as a teacher is to send a group of kids out into the world and they think they are prepared but quickly find out that they aren’t.”
Teaching To The Test Pattern: EP1: Live Event Audio
This episode of Teaching To The Test Pattern gives you the basics on what's needed to get started on the way to making great sounding audio at live events. Learn the most basic audio set up to the need for backline communication.
Teaching To The Test Pattern: EP106: End Your Semester Strong
Tom discusses how you can end your semester strong and efficiently in order to start the spring semester better prepared.