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scene 1: existing playgrounds
Scene Description: Aerial view of parks, mostly for aesthetic purposes
Background narrative: Talking about the start of the personal project and my goal, introducing myself
Background music: upbeat dramatic music, calm music. The music will kind of be the main focus of this section of the video, as it is really interesting and looks professional and cool.
Length: 45 seconds
Angles: Aerial angle, side angle
Materials needed: Drone and camera
Transition scene: Fade into sky to next scene
Key script elements: Existing playgrounds, issues with existing playgrounds, daily use of existing playgrounds
Location: Richmond Hill park (Rotary Park)
Characters, props, costumes: No characters, just structure
Animations: None, keeping the shot simple with just some Final Cut Pro effects
Other:
Background narrative: Talking about the start of the personal project and my goal, introducing myself
Background music: upbeat dramatic music, calm music. The music will kind of be the main focus of this section of the video, as it is really interesting and looks professional and cool.
Length: 45 seconds
Angles: Aerial angle, side angle
Materials needed: Drone and camera
Transition scene: Fade into sky to next scene
Key script elements: Existing playgrounds, issues with existing playgrounds, daily use of existing playgrounds
Location: Richmond Hill park (Rotary Park)
Characters, props, costumes: No characters, just structure
Animations: None, keeping the shot simple with just some Final Cut Pro effects
Other:
scene 2: introducing video layout
Scene Description: Word Animations of short phrases that are key points in what I am saying.
Background narrative: I will be introducing the layout of how I completed my personal project, and also discussing the layout in which I will be talking about my project in the video.
Background music: Change in music from the intro music to upbeat relaxed music, that is very easy going and has a good vibe. This music change will signify a change in sections of the video.
Length: 20 seconds
Angles: No angles, just animations of sliding, flipping, scrolling of numbers, etc.
Materials needed: Cinema 4D for animations
Transition scene: Cross Blur into next scene
Key script elements: 4 steps, creating the final product, process, long process
Location: n/a
Characters, props, costumes: No characters, just word animations
Animations: Scrolling of numbers, popping up of words
Other: n/a
Background narrative: I will be introducing the layout of how I completed my personal project, and also discussing the layout in which I will be talking about my project in the video.
Background music: Change in music from the intro music to upbeat relaxed music, that is very easy going and has a good vibe. This music change will signify a change in sections of the video.
Length: 20 seconds
Angles: No angles, just animations of sliding, flipping, scrolling of numbers, etc.
Materials needed: Cinema 4D for animations
Transition scene: Cross Blur into next scene
Key script elements: 4 steps, creating the final product, process, long process
Location: n/a
Characters, props, costumes: No characters, just word animations
Animations: Scrolling of numbers, popping up of words
Other: n/a
scene 3: variety village
Scene Description: Scrolling through variety village website
Background narrative: Talking about my inspiration in Grade 9 and how I visited Variety Village in Grade 9 with the school.
Background music: Same upbeat music from before.
Length: 45 seconds
Angles: No animations, just scrolling through website.
Materials needed: Variety Village website
Transition scene: Cross blur into next scene, simple transition
Key script elements: Inspiration, what I learned at Variety Village,
Location: n/a
Characters, props, costumes: n/a
Animations: Sliding transitions and word animations for key points in the slides
Other: The scrolling through the website will be made with a screen capture and then sped up so that it goes by quickly and you can see more of the website in a shorter amount of time.
Background narrative: Talking about my inspiration in Grade 9 and how I visited Variety Village in Grade 9 with the school.
Background music: Same upbeat music from before.
Length: 45 seconds
Angles: No animations, just scrolling through website.
Materials needed: Variety Village website
Transition scene: Cross blur into next scene, simple transition
Key script elements: Inspiration, what I learned at Variety Village,
Location: n/a
Characters, props, costumes: n/a
Animations: Sliding transitions and word animations for key points in the slides
Other: The scrolling through the website will be made with a screen capture and then sped up so that it goes by quickly and you can see more of the website in a shorter amount of time.
scene 4: Variety village (cont)
Scene Description: Video shots of Variety Village and interviewing a member from variety village
Background narrative: Archie Allison talking about Variety Village and what the facilities do for people with special needs.
Background music: Same upbeat music from before.
Length: 45 seconds
Angles: Filming facilities of variety village, up close shots, panorama shots, very unique and interesting shots of the space, still medium shots when interviewing employee
Materials needed: Camera, Script for asking questions to Archie Allison
Transition scene: Slide into next scene to word animation section (yellow animations).
Key script elements: Interviewee's response about Variety Village and what the facility offers, inspiration
Location: Variety Village, Toronto
Characters, props, costumes: Archie Allison, other children at the facilities, employees and staff at facilities in a natural setting
Animations: No animations, keeping the footage simple with simple transitions in between
Other:
Background narrative: Archie Allison talking about Variety Village and what the facilities do for people with special needs.
Background music: Same upbeat music from before.
Length: 45 seconds
Angles: Filming facilities of variety village, up close shots, panorama shots, very unique and interesting shots of the space, still medium shots when interviewing employee
Materials needed: Camera, Script for asking questions to Archie Allison
Transition scene: Slide into next scene to word animation section (yellow animations).
Key script elements: Interviewee's response about Variety Village and what the facility offers, inspiration
Location: Variety Village, Toronto
Characters, props, costumes: Archie Allison, other children at the facilities, employees and staff at facilities in a natural setting
Animations: No animations, keeping the footage simple with simple transitions in between
Other:
Scene 5: extensive Research phase
Scene Description: Scrolling through research, typing research, animations of typing research, scrolling through Richmond Hill websites and sources, walking through Richmond Hill parks
Background narrative: Talking about starting my project and the process of collecting research
Background music: Change in music from first parts of video to show another section
Length: 30 seconds
Angles: I will not take a screen recording, but take a recording of my computer with a green background on it, acting like a green screen. Then, I will film the screen recordings, pop up animations and other features onto the green screen as the actuals shot zooms more and more into my laptop.
Materials needed: Camera, laptop, research, websites
Transition scene: Sliding/Fading
Key script elements: hard work, lots of research, long process, from what time to what time
Location: Library setting, at home, in the day time, at night
Characters, props, costumes: I will be in one of the scenes where I fall asleep on my laptop from all the work I have been doing on it, but it will be a short 2 second shot.
Animations: I will open this section of the video with a calendar animation, which will show when I worked on my research (so during the summer)
Other: I will have the laptop in many many quick shots in different locations, to show the long process of getting research which will look very unique and interesting
Background narrative: Talking about starting my project and the process of collecting research
Background music: Change in music from first parts of video to show another section
Length: 30 seconds
Angles: I will not take a screen recording, but take a recording of my computer with a green background on it, acting like a green screen. Then, I will film the screen recordings, pop up animations and other features onto the green screen as the actuals shot zooms more and more into my laptop.
Materials needed: Camera, laptop, research, websites
Transition scene: Sliding/Fading
Key script elements: hard work, lots of research, long process, from what time to what time
Location: Library setting, at home, in the day time, at night
Characters, props, costumes: I will be in one of the scenes where I fall asleep on my laptop from all the work I have been doing on it, but it will be a short 2 second shot.
Animations: I will open this section of the video with a calendar animation, which will show when I worked on my research (so during the summer)
Other: I will have the laptop in many many quick shots in different locations, to show the long process of getting research which will look very unique and interesting
Scene 6: Planning phase
Scene Description: Scrolling through research, typing research, animations of typing research, scrolling through Richmond Hill websites and sources, watching Sketchup tutorials
Background narrative: Talking about starting my project and the process of collecting research
Background music: Change in music from first parts of video to show another section
Length: 30 seconds
Angles: I will not take a screen recording, but take a recording of my computer with a green background on it, acting like a green screen. Then, I will film the screen recordings, pop up animations and other features onto the green screen as the actuals shot zooms more and more into my laptop.
Materials needed: Camera, laptop, research, websites
Transition scene: Cross blur to next scene
Key script elements: hard work, lots of research, long process, from what time to what time
Location: Library setting, at home, in the day time, at night
Characters, props, costumes: I will be in one of the scenes where I fall asleep on my laptop from all the work I have been doing on it, but it will be a short 2 second shot.
Animations: I will open this section of the video with a calendar animation, which will show when I worked on my research (so during the summer)
Other: I will have the laptop in many many quick shots in different locations, to show the long process of getting research which will look very unique and interesting
Background narrative: Talking about starting my project and the process of collecting research
Background music: Change in music from first parts of video to show another section
Length: 30 seconds
Angles: I will not take a screen recording, but take a recording of my computer with a green background on it, acting like a green screen. Then, I will film the screen recordings, pop up animations and other features onto the green screen as the actuals shot zooms more and more into my laptop.
Materials needed: Camera, laptop, research, websites
Transition scene: Cross blur to next scene
Key script elements: hard work, lots of research, long process, from what time to what time
Location: Library setting, at home, in the day time, at night
Characters, props, costumes: I will be in one of the scenes where I fall asleep on my laptop from all the work I have been doing on it, but it will be a short 2 second shot.
Animations: I will open this section of the video with a calendar animation, which will show when I worked on my research (so during the summer)
Other: I will have the laptop in many many quick shots in different locations, to show the long process of getting research which will look very unique and interesting
scene 7: final product
Scene Description: Animations of my final product, as well as Sketchup screen captures
Background narrative: Talking about the final product and the features it includes, also improvements I would make to the final product and the process of designing with Sketchup
Background music: Upbeat dramatic music
Length: 1 minute
Angles: The screen recording will feature lots of pans, aerial shots and angles of the playground to get an idea of what the whole thing looks like. This will all be done using the animations tool in Sketchup.
Materials needed: Laptop, Sketch up, Screen Capture
Transition scene: Lots of variety and quick shots of transitions of one picture to the next of the playground. Then cross blur to one of the set section transitions featuring the next section of the video.
Key script elements: hard work, lots of research, long process, from what time to what time
Location: Sketchup
Characters, props, costumes: None
Animations: There will be animations in the Sketchup project that will use the 'Animations' feature in the program. There will be another calendar animation.
Other:
Background narrative: Talking about the final product and the features it includes, also improvements I would make to the final product and the process of designing with Sketchup
Background music: Upbeat dramatic music
Length: 1 minute
Angles: The screen recording will feature lots of pans, aerial shots and angles of the playground to get an idea of what the whole thing looks like. This will all be done using the animations tool in Sketchup.
Materials needed: Laptop, Sketch up, Screen Capture
Transition scene: Lots of variety and quick shots of transitions of one picture to the next of the playground. Then cross blur to one of the set section transitions featuring the next section of the video.
Key script elements: hard work, lots of research, long process, from what time to what time
Location: Sketchup
Characters, props, costumes: None
Animations: There will be animations in the Sketchup project that will use the 'Animations' feature in the program. There will be another calendar animation.
Other:
scene 8: global context
Scene Description: Animations and words that are coming up on the screen to describe fairness and development, overtop videos of children playing in many different settings and in different ways, making it relate more globally.
Background narrative: Talking about my choice of global context and why this relates to my project.
Background music: Continue upbeat music that has been going on for the majority of the video.
Length: 30 seconds
Angles: No angles will be needed for the word animations, however the video will not have crazy angles to keep the focus on the word animations.
Materials needed: Videos of children playing in different countries around the world doing different things.
Transition scene:
Key script elements: Fairness, Development, children, playing, playgrounds, equality
Location: no location
Characters, props, costumes: The children playing in the background videos (which will not be my own videos).
Animations: I will open this section of the video with a calendar animation, which will show when I worked on my research (so during the summer)
Other: The words in the animations will be of different fonts, colours and sizes.
Background narrative: Talking about my choice of global context and why this relates to my project.
Background music: Continue upbeat music that has been going on for the majority of the video.
Length: 30 seconds
Angles: No angles will be needed for the word animations, however the video will not have crazy angles to keep the focus on the word animations.
Materials needed: Videos of children playing in different countries around the world doing different things.
Transition scene:
Key script elements: Fairness, Development, children, playing, playgrounds, equality
Location: no location
Characters, props, costumes: The children playing in the background videos (which will not be my own videos).
Animations: I will open this section of the video with a calendar animation, which will show when I worked on my research (so during the summer)
Other: The words in the animations will be of different fonts, colours and sizes.
scene 9: advice and mYp thoughts
Scene Description: Me talking in front of the camera about my personal experience with the MYP and PP project. I thought this one-on-one interaction with the camera would make everything more personal because I am giving my own opinions, thoughts and advice. There will be some animations when I mention key points (word animations will pop up) but other than that, I want it to be simple because I have already packed in lots of animations and transitions into the previous 5 minutes of the video.
Background narrative: I will be talking, which is the main narrative.
Background music: The music will change to another very relaxed song that has a small beat to it, to make everything very light and easygoing.
Length: 1:00 minute
Angles: A medium shot of my face, but some movement and transitions in the word animations.
Materials needed: Camera, Final Cut Pro animations
Transition scene: Slide transition to credits
Key script elements: difficult, stressful, learning experience, personal project
Location: My room and my wall
Characters, props, costumes: Me talking, wearing simple clothes so its very simple and not too distracting
Animations: No animations except for the word animations (tumbling words, scrolling effects)
Other: This will be the one talking video I put in, just because I wanted to present the information on a personal level.
Background narrative: I will be talking, which is the main narrative.
Background music: The music will change to another very relaxed song that has a small beat to it, to make everything very light and easygoing.
Length: 1:00 minute
Angles: A medium shot of my face, but some movement and transitions in the word animations.
Materials needed: Camera, Final Cut Pro animations
Transition scene: Slide transition to credits
Key script elements: difficult, stressful, learning experience, personal project
Location: My room and my wall
Characters, props, costumes: Me talking, wearing simple clothes so its very simple and not too distracting
Animations: No animations except for the word animations (tumbling words, scrolling effects)
Other: This will be the one talking video I put in, just because I wanted to present the information on a personal level.
scene 10: credits
Scene Description: Scrolling credits and "Thank you for Watching!" over drone footage that was used previously, except the footage will be blurred.
Background narrative: No background narrative.
Background music: Intro upbeat music that was used in the intro.
Length: 20 seconds
Angles: Aerial angles and rotating around to see all of the houses in Richmond Hill, as well as for some action.
Materials needed: Drone, Camera, Final Cut Pro animations
Transition scene: Fade to black
Key script elements: hard work, lots of research, long process, from what time to what time
Location: Rotary park in Richmond Hill
Characters, props, costumes: None
Animations: No animations except for the word animations (tumbling words, scrolling effects)
Other: This video will have been repeated previously in the intro, but the repetition makes the video have a distinct intro and outro theme to it.
Background narrative: No background narrative.
Background music: Intro upbeat music that was used in the intro.
Length: 20 seconds
Angles: Aerial angles and rotating around to see all of the houses in Richmond Hill, as well as for some action.
Materials needed: Drone, Camera, Final Cut Pro animations
Transition scene: Fade to black
Key script elements: hard work, lots of research, long process, from what time to what time
Location: Rotary park in Richmond Hill
Characters, props, costumes: None
Animations: No animations except for the word animations (tumbling words, scrolling effects)
Other: This video will have been repeated previously in the intro, but the repetition makes the video have a distinct intro and outro theme to it.