Holiday Time!

What a busy term here at Wave TV and at Paremata School in general. Just in the last week we had the Senior Production, a Kapa Haka visit from Rangikura School, a whole school assembly and an art exhibition in the Year 5 and 6 team. Phew! Not to mention the many students who also were involved with the Artsplash festival, ICAS and played in the school band.

On top of a busy term the Wave TV crew have worked hard to produce 3 episodes of Wave TV that are now up on the school website: episodes 6, 7 and 8. Please feel free to leave a comment below to give us any feedback on our news programmes. Episode 9 is nearly complete and should hopefully be posted by Week 2 of Term 4. We will complete two episodes in Term 4. Episode 10 already has 3 stories started. The stories in Episode 11 will be more about how we do things at Wave TV than school stories. It will be used next year as a 'how to' set of tutorials for the students who will make up the Wave TV crew in 2014. It will also celebrate our Wave TV year.

One thing that has stood out for me as we made these episodes was the willingness of students to take risks in order to tell their stories well. In presentations this ranged from Peteru's Batman hero to Morgan and Brenna's characterisation of disorganised news readers. While editing people tried new tricks such as exploring combinations of video, photos, music, sound effects, voice overs and transitions to create the mood they wanted and tell the story in the best way they could. I have noticed the reporters and anchors are getting really good at thinking about stories from the point of view of the audience. They have made their stories interesting and fun to watch as well as informative. The green screen research we did at the beginning of the term has really paid off because now we've got the lighting right we don't have so much trouble with people going see through. In episode 9 you will see something we call Movie Magic where we use all kinds of combinations of scriptwriting, filming, editing tools, green screening and cleverness to explore the possibilities of iMovie for telling our stories in the best way we can.

Well done everyone for a wonderful Wave TV term. A big Thank You list follows now! First of all a special thank you goes to the students who were part of Groups 1, 2 and 3 for helping me develop my teaching this term. You were so fantastic to work with! A huge thank you as well to Whaea Tia, Sally, Emma, Mrs Leggett, Miss Milne, Mrs Bassett and Rachel for letting these marvellous students glide so easily from their home classes to Wave TV and back each day. Further Wave TV thanks also go to Mrs Gorman, a staunch supporter of Wave TV,  for letting students frequently film in the library and for supporting them as they do so. A big thank you to Bryce for encouraging and enabling us to get our multimedia processes up and running smoothly at Paremata School. Thanks also to Karyn for continuing to be the go-to photographer/ videographer for school events. I am not sure that your name appears in the credits at the end of each episode nearly as often as it should. A final great big thank you for this term goes to Em's dad and grandad who have happily lent us some wonderful lights to work with while we are figuring out what we need to buy for our studio lighting. Thank you all on behalf of the Wave TV crew.

Thanks Everyone,
Caroline

Week 9

Last week of school for Term 3!
Here's the organisation for this week...

Monday
Moses and Nic - artsplash story (scripting) please add time.
Emily D and Melissa - 9am, Gala poster comp (edit)
Yasmine, Brenna and Morgan - 11am, second langages conversation (filming)
Emma and Em - 11:45, writers walk (edit)
Chenthi and Em - 10am, Hockey (edit)
Nic and Yasmine, 1:30, NIWA (filming)

Week 7

Happy Monday! (or tuesday, wednesday, thursday...)

Well done of episode 7! Yes, a couple things were missed but at least they were aknowledged throughout the episode.
This week:

• film, edit, produce! - episode six needs to be completed!
• Harrison and Callum need to film!
• scripting for ep 8

          -add more by logging monto the wtv blog

Hopefully, this week, or next week, I can produce a little photopeach about wave tv or something, the problem is, I can't remember the username or password and I don't have my own email to make account with! Please get the hint!!! (who knows the details?!)

first person to tell me who the man in the yellow jersey is as well as the race he won will get a special something (a hug) during the week

Thanks, Melissa

Thanks Melissa for posting this. You are a fabulous blogger for Wave TV!

Here the organisation for this week.

Thursday: 

• Pre-group 3 interviews with Chenthi, Moses, Toby and Yasmine. I will call you when it is your time. It will be in the morning.

Friday:

Episode 6- 

• As Melissa says, we need to shoot the anchor sequence with Callum and Harrison at 9:30 in the WTV studio. Then all that episode needs is to be edited and shared. Well done everyone who has worked on it and who have been so patient!

Episode 8- 

• Can all the Episode 8 people meet me at 9am at the WTV studio. That is Georgia, Kai, Lyndsay, Brenna, Morgan, Troy, Jake and Em. We need to upload, edit and do some tweaking. This episode should be nearly done by the end of the day.

Episode 9- 

• Can all the Episode 9 people please meet in the studio after lunch. That is Toby, Moses, Chenthi, Yasmine, Emma, Emily, Em and Melissa. We will sort out our planning for the next two weeks. Remember it will be every afternoon (apart from tech Mondays for Yr 7s), and both full Fridays for Weeks 8 and 9. It would be great if you came along this Friday afternoon with some story ideas. There are some ideas already up on the wall of the studio.

See you on Thursday or Friday! Caroline

PS- Melissa- I have the Photopeach password tucked away somewhere so will get that to you on Friday. That is a great idea. We can pop it on the blog.

Week 5 update

Week 5

Hi everyone,
How are you all?
Not much to say this week as our usual timetable is not taking place on Friday but...

• I am unsure if the anchors filming for ep 6 has taken place, if so, great!
• Filming for 7 need to happen
• Editing for 6 and 7 (?)
• Any scripting for old or new stories must happen

 Can you all tell me if this is correct, it is just what I memorised from the board. :D

Thanks, Melissa

PS: let me know if I missed anything out please!

Week 3

Hi Everyone,
Congratulations to the group working on Episode 7- what creative anchors! It has been quite intense at times working in such a small group so I think you have done really well. This group have been trialling the usefulness of storyboards to help plan each story, and to help the Director and Camera person know what is needed for each shoot.

We have done a lot of experimenting with lighting the green screen. If you look on the tabs at the top of this blog you'll see a page full of green screening information. Most of it is about lighting. Once we have the lighting right it'll be time to play with effects such as flying, so there is a tutorial on how to do that on that page as well.

Episode 5 went onto the Paremata School website today. Yay! Episode 6 has everything ready except the anchors who we will shoot on Friday of Week 4. That Friday will be devoted to completing Episode 6. Episode 7 is scripted, storyboarded and filmed. There is in editing timetable in the Wave TV studio the crew are following to get it completed by the end of Friday. Well done everyone!

Thanks, Caroline

PS- remember to enter the Paremata School Gala Poster Competition!

Week 2 Term 3

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for your patience while the our three WTV groups produce Episodes 7, 8 and 9 this term. It will be interesting to see how it goes making each episode with a smaller crew. Everyone will need to be a bit busier.
Episode 5 and 6 are getting there. Episode 5 just needs a few tweaks from Abby, Jake, Chenthi and Georgia then it is good to go. Hopefully we can get this done this week.
Episode 6 needs the anchors shot so we will need to find a time to get that done with Callum and Harrison. I think everything except that part is finished in the white lappy.

Keep an eye on WOT in case your name is called for something.
Thanks, Caroline.

It won't take much to figure out what story this picture is from!

Mid-Year Holidays

We are now halfway through our school year and have published 4 episodes of Wave TV. Our next episode is all filmed and going through the editing process. It should be published onto the school website by the end of Week One Term 3.

Episode 6 is partially filmed and also going through the editing process. I apologise to Callum for not printing out the episode 6 anchor's script last Friday. Callum and Harrison, if you are keen to practise you can find the script on the wiki. We will workshop this script in Week One of Term 3 to make sure it fits with the stories. We won't be able to use greenscreening in this episode because the white lappy that we are editing on only can cope with imovie 08.

 We are committed to making 10 episodes this year to accommodate all the year 8 people who were interested in being anchors. We are well on track with Episodes 7, 8 and 9 due to come out in Term 3 as well.

As the Wave TV Crew know, Wave TV will look a little different in Term 3. I will be at school all of Week One getting everything from Term 2 as completed as possible and prepping for our longer sessions. I will send for you as needed using What's on Top or student runners. Or watch the blog. We will have three two week sessions of Wave TV with small crews each producing one episode. Group One will make their show in Weeks 2 & 3 (5-16 August), Group Two in Weeks 5 & 6 (26 August- 6 September), and Group Three will be in Weeks 8 & 9 (16-27 September).

Some of our lovely WTV students are away in various interesting and exciting parts of the world right now. I wonder if they will remember to post here to let us know what they're up to? I hope so!

Have a wonderful restful break everyone. I will see you on Monday in Week One Term1! Ka kite ano, Caroline.