So last Christmas break (Summer here in Australia) we went to my in-laws and helped them make apple juice. They do it every year and fill their freezer We videoed it to make a holiday DVD for the kids and I just thought "hey, that would be nice base for my challenge project".
Talking it over with my husband it seems like I'm about to learn an awful lot about exactly how much preparation goes into a resource like this! At this point I had the thought that it might be a good idea to share my learning experience. So here we go!
The basic idea.
Have a look at some of these kinds of Video on the Sesame Street YouTube Channel.
That's sort of where I want to go with this one (although I have decided to narrate myself rather than one of our kids) so the first decision has been made. Many of these videos concentrate on sequence so of course it leads right into what I wanted to do with the video once it's done. The first decision made it was time to start sorting through the video we took and.... Wow...
The first steps.
I never realised what really went into a short documentary/instructional video before. This cut is very rough and I thought we'd be aiming to "get it right" at this point. Not so... My husband asked me the question; if we get it "perfect" now and I want to add something later, how much more work is it going to be to add it in and get it "perfect" all over again? Along with that comes the second question; how many times will you have to get it "perfect" before you're done?
So here's the rough cut sequence (low quality).
Even this was more work than I realised. We had about 3 hours of video and cutting it back to 5-6 minutes, comparing different videos of the same step to see which one was the best and so on, was a lot more intensive that I thought... I've seen in movies about making movies where they're all talking about 34 takes and 33 of them will end up on the "cutting room floor" but sort of didn't realise exactly what that meant until now.
I also realised after "finishing" this part that there's not actually any video of anyone turning the handle... Oops! To which my husband replied "yes, that's what story-boarding is for"... With the lesson soundly learnt, adding in that piece of video has been put onto the "to do" list.
Being the resource challenge and I'm trying to put as many activities with it as possible it's not just the process of making the juice that I needed to consider. What else did I have that I could put in that would allow other lessons to stem from it. As you can see in the video I've included the bursting bottle so I can include some science (water expands as it freezes) as well as composting the left-over apple afterwards (sustainability).
It's all a little more in-depth than I thought it would be, even with my husband helping to edit the video! I thought this would be the quickest part and I think I may have been mistaken...
From now on the progress on this one can be found on my personal blog; 40 Weeks, 40 Classrooms! More will be coming in the chronicle of my journey with a focus on what I'm learning by through the CRT Resource Challenge.
Regards,
Mel.
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