Learning in the Lou

 Make a documentary that will move people! This post was created to help the LHS PBL English students create dynamic documentary films. Lesson Flow In class, we watched the video embedded below to build a common understanding of how documentaries are put together and address the audience. From there we explored a few ideas and then went to editing in WeVideo Video: Viewing 1 The first time we watch this clip we are focusing on the following three questions. What did you see? What did you notice? How did it start and end? Video: Viewing 2 The second time we narrowed our focus to look for specific video and editing techniques. We broke into a few small groups, each focusing on one element. Our focal points: Sound - Whatever your subject is, it should be heard loud and clear. If there is too much distracting background noise, or the subject is super quiet, the whole video becomes nearly unwatchable. Sound can include voiceovers, background noise, music and more. Be mindful of how far ...