Wave TV 2017

Thanks to the anchors, camera people and directors that came along to meet with me about the making of the first five episodes of Wave TV for 2017. As I said, I'm thinking we can maybe get three episodes out by the end of term, but maybe because you're so proactive and motivated you can influence other people. As you know, the sooner the stories come rolling in, the sooner you get to have your turn making Wave TV.

Tanika and Ruby are getting ready to start writing their anchor sequence and Lillian and Bee know what they're doing, as do all the camera people now. For Wave TV all we need to be able to do is to frame up a great head and shoulders shot. The directors know they'll keep everything in order during filming and will count in each shot. If the camera people and director want to swap around during their filming for a while to experience the other role, that's fine. The camera people and directors can view the tutorials on these pages and I'll add a few more. I have got rid of the ones that were old and not relevant. I'll pop one up on editing in iMovie as well.

Onwards and upwards! I am looking to seeing your work. Thank you for putting yourselves forward.

Caroline

Episodes One and oTwo

Well done those people who have scripted their stories for these episodes:

Episode One:

Budgie Story: Billie and Emma. Please email in the photos Billie. Where is your script?
Aviary Story-  Scripted. Milly and Georgia
Senior Council- Dylan and Finn- You need to write the script and return it to me please.
Year 5 & 6 EOTC-  Ella and Phoebe. Scripted.Please email the photos through to me at the Wave TV gmail.
Year 3 & 4 Rippa Tournament- Ryan & Tomas You have already filmed, well done.
Purple Day- Melissa and Matilda.

Episode Two:

Junior Trip- Chris and Jordan. Scripted. Filmed interviews but not intro.
Powhiri- Siobhan and Erin. Script at Siobhan's.
Year 7 & 8 Fun Run- Bethany and Sophie. Scripted. Have you located any photos?
Phoenix Draw. Liam & Hayden/ Where is your script?
Year 7 & 8 Camp- Anna, Eva, Caiyah and Matilda. Script after Camp.

No Wave TV in Week 3

Hi Everyone,

I'm so sorry but Wave TV won't be on this week. I'll pop another blogpost up early next week to let you know what is happening in Week 4.

Thanks for your patience,
Caroline

Wave TV 2014 Set Up

Hi everyone and welcome back to school!
I hope you all had a fantastic holiday and have settled into your new classes wonderfully. It's nice for me to be back with a gorgeous new class in Room 10. I'll be working with students across the school to create Wave TV every Thursday this year. There were so many people from years 5, 5, 7 and 8 interested in working on Wave TV. I've put you into groups and will work with 3 or 4 groups each term. Groups are a mixture of people who have done Wave TV before and people who haven't.
Below are the groups working on Term One stories. Two groups will work on early Term One stories and two will work on later Term One stories. I'll call you to meet with me on Thursday of Week 3 and explain it all. If your name doesn't appear on the lists below don't worry! I haven't forgotten you. You'll be doing stories in Term 2, 3 or 4 :)

Term One
Group 1
Emma S
Billie
Sophie M
Bethany
Finn
Tomas
Anchors: Emily D and Jemma Marie

Group 2
Milly
Abby 
Caiyah
Matilda
Siobhan
Erin
Anchors: Em & Ellen

Group 3
Phoebe
Ella
Logan
Stirling
Ryan
Dylan
Anchors: Troy & Jake

Group 4
Anna
Eva
Holly
Aimee
Jordan
Chris
Kai & Georgia

Wave TV Episodes 10 and 11

Week 7

Wave TV 2014
Thanks to all the students who have put their hands up for next year's Wave TV. I'll send permission slips home with you next Thursday and will expect them back the following Thursday at the latest. No permission slip = no Wave TV. 

Episode 10
This has gone a little slower than expected. Most of the stories are in the project and we're working on credits and final edits. We've had one or two technical malfunctions such as incompatible movies from a non-mac computer, and trouble with editing and re-editing a tricky green screen story. Two stories were made then completely disappeared so we had to re-build them from We're getting pretty good at problem solving! 

This Thursday
9-9:45- Milly & Georgie- re-build the Gala story
9:45-10:30- Chatelle & Abby- finish the Uganda story. Mrs Haswell has emailed you additional information about her photos.
11-12:00- Jake & Troy- finish music & credits
12:00 onwards- Check permissions & final edit. Send to Vimeo. Post on the school website.

Episode 11

9-9:30- Jesper & Weston- Check through iMovie story. Firmly edit. Take out the really bumpy bits and make sure the overall message is clear for viewers.
9:30-10:30- Finn & Nic- Finish animation and build the story in iMovie.
11-11:30- Edit down the road patrol story.
11:30- 12:30- Kapa haka- Edit, edit, edit...
1:30 onwards. Final edits and tweaking.

Thanks to Jake & Troy for the music they've been creating for opening and closing episodes. It's great to see so many people such as Chenthi, Yasmine & Em creating their own creative background music in Garageband.

Friday 21st November

Here is the plan for Friday, Week 6:

Editing for Episode 10 (silver lappy)
9:00 - 9:30  Em & Harry- Sasa

9:30-10 Chantelle & Abby- Uganda 

10-10:30 Milly & Georgie- Paremata Gala- Check intro etc.

MORNING TEA :)
11:00 - 12:30- Yasmine & Nyah
LUNCH :)
1:30 - 2:00- Isaac & Jay Speech comps news flash

2:00- 3:00 Bloopers, credits. Check all permissions.

Send to Vimeo. Then post to the school website.

Editing etc. for Episode 11 (Big mac)
9:00-10:00 Nic & Finn film intro & complete animation

9:30- 10:30 Ryan & Kai filming kapa haka

9:00-10:00 Jesper & Weston

10-10:30 Ryan A & Dylan edit piglet story

Morning tea

11:00- 11:30 Morgan & Emma edit scripting story

11:30- 12:30 Ryan & Kai edit kapa haka story

Lunch

1:30- 3pm whoever hasn't completed yet
Please leave a comment below so I know you have read the blog.
Thanks, Caroline

Thursday, Week 6

Here is the plan for Thursday, Week 6:

Editing for Episode 10 (silver lappy)
9:00 - 9:30 Melissa & Chenthi- Jump rope for Heart
9:30 - 10:30 Emma, Ella, Emilee, Erin & Phoebe- Flower art
MORNING TEA :)
11:00 - 12:00 Em & Harry- Sasa
LUNCH :)
1:30 - 2:00 Chantelle & Abby- Uganda 


Filming/Scripting for Episode 11
9:00- Ryan & Dylan- Film piglet story C- Isaac  D- Ryan
9:00- Nic C. & Finn- Script animation story
11:00- Jay & Isaac- Script speech comps

1:30- Jay & Isaac- Film speech comps  C- Milly  D- Georgie

Editing for Episode 11 (big lappy)
9:00- 10:30 Melissa & Cyzck- Anchors
MORNING TEA :)
11:00- 11:30 Kai & Ryan - Kapa Haka
LUNCH
1:30- 2:00 Ryan & Dylan

Please leave a comment below so Caroline knows you have read the blog.
Thanks, Chenthi the Awesome o)

WEEKLY QUESTION:
Do you think that TV is a necessary item in life? (Question from Em :)

Week 5

Friday- week 5
To do list:
Ep 10

• 9:00 Yasmine and Nyah film, crew: Isaac and Lyndsay
• 9:00 Harry and Em edit sasa story
• 11:00 Erin, Emma, Ella, Emilee and Phoebe
• 13:30/1:30 Nyah and Yasmine edit
• 13:30/1:30 Chenthi and Melissa film Isaac & Ryan crew

Ep 11

• 9:00 Finn and Nic explore stick motion then storyboard and script
• 9:00 Ben and Hayden edit
• 11:00 Melissa and Cyzck edit
• 13:30/1:30 Jesper and Weston edit

Please leave a comment below and your name.
By Chenthi and Melissa
(P.S We are awesome, cool, funny and very intelligent o) )

Feedback Please!

Episode 9 is finally up! Well done everyone involved, you have made a fantastic effort.

It is time to hear from our viewers! We are interested in your thoughts on our episodes. Please feel free to leave comments in the comment boxes below if you have any constructive feedback or comments for us about things that are going well or things we could get better at. If you would like us to improve at something can you please write it in a positive way. We are always interested to know your ideas!

Remember to leave your name in the comment. The easiest way to do this is to scroll down the commenting options and  click 'name/URL' to leave your name. You don't need to leave a URL :)

Thanks, Caroline

Friday Week 3

Hi Everyone,

Wow- these stories for Episodes 10 and 11 are really coming together! Episode 9 is complete and will be posted to the school website shortly. Ryan and Dylan I will photocopy your Lucky scripts and get them to you today. Thanks Samuel and Peteru for stepping in and helping Harry & Pouniu with their sasa story for Episode 10. If people are still keen we need reporters for a Year 8 leavers story. Anyone keen? Please write it in a comment below.

Friday Organisation:

Episode 10- 
9am-9:30 Kai, Lyndsay, Georgia and Em- edit Paremata Idol story.
9am till done- Yasmine and Nyah scripting into the wiki (negotiate times if you have lots on, but this will need to be finished today. We will film this Friday Week 5 9am at the Wave TV studio).
10-10:30 am- Jake & Troy edit AFL story
11am- Emma, Ella, Phoebe, Erin (and one other?)- edit until your story is complete.
12:00 Chantelle and Abby- Edit- Uganda story.
1:30 Editing that has not been finished yet needs to be finished.

Episode 11-
8:30 am- Ben & Hayden photographing road patrol. 
9am-10:30- Morgan & Emma edit scripting story
9am- Jesper and Weston storyboarding and organising the iMovie story ready to shoot after morning tea on Friday Week 5.
9am- Finn and Nic- let me know where you are at with your animation story.
10:30 Kai & Ryan film a sequence of haka actions in the hall. Whaea Tia will support you.
11:00 Ben & Hayden start editing the road patrol story.
12:00 Milly and Emily film storyboarding story in the library. Come to me at 11:00 to let me know what is happening or leave a comment below. Jesper and Weston to crew.
1:30pm- edit then interview Bryce at 2:00. Arrive 5 minutes early with Jesper and Weston, your WTV crew.

Thanks! See you this Friday. Remember there is NO Wave TV in Week 4. Thanks, Caroline.

Term 4 Planning

If you are involved in making Episodes 9,10 or 11 please make sure you watch the blog and WOT so you know what to do. Come to all meetings you are expected at the times you are asked as we have fierce deadlines. 

Here are the dates for Term 4:

Week 1 Friday Oct 18

Week 2 Friday Oct 25
Week 3 Thursday 31 Oct & Friday 1 Nov
Week 5 Thurs 14 & Fri 15 Nov
Week 6 Thursday 21 & Friday 22 Nov
Week 7 Thursday 28 & Friday 29 Nov

Wave TV 3 is on all day this Friday, not Thursday as I said last week. Can Yasmine, Nyah, Georgie, Milly, Em, Georgia, Kai, Ben Carson, Harry Dunn, Melissa, Cyzck, Jake, Troy, Brenna, Jesper and Hayden please meet me straight after the roll to scriptwrite and film. Erin, Emilee, Phoebe, Ella and Emma are filming after morning tea with Dylan and Harrison (yr 8) as crew. Other students will be called during the day as required. 

Episode 9. The goal for this Friday is to get Episode 9 completely completed. If it is you who needs to finish a story and your name is not in What's on Top please come along on Friday anyway. You did a great push last Friday so well done. We will call people throughout the day to checking OK their parts. Yasmin's and Nic - your story, due to illness last term, is the last to be completed so needs to be done this week. Please organise your backgrounds for NIWA if you haven't done so yet. This episode needs to be posted by the end of the weekend.

Episode 10. Well done also for your hard work. The stories for Episode 10 so far are:

AFL- Troy and Jake, crew Georgia & Em. Thanks Em also for helping with Garageband music.

Room 16's Flowers exhibition Ella, Emma, Emilee, Erin & Phoebe- Harrison & Dylan as crew.

Room 1b & 15's sasa  (Harry, Room 15)

The Gala- Milly & Georgie (crew?)

Paremata Idol finals (Em, Kai, Lyndsay & Georgia (own crew)

Year 8s leaving (Brenna)

There was also another story but I am not sure what it was? I'll check the board on Friday unless someone can remember and pops it in a comment below. Mrs Haswell would also like a follow up story in one of these episodes after her trip to Uganda. Perhaps Chantelle & Hayden can do this? Let's aim to get this episode out by Week 5 or 6.

Episode 11. This is supposed to be a 'How To' episode designed to help Wave TV 2014 know what they are supposed to to do as crew. We'll sort out who does what for this on Friday. There is also a 'How to' Kapa Haka component. Nic, you had a 'how to' idea as well that you have time to explore. This episode needs to be out by about Week 7 so people have a chance to watch it before school ends.

Next year will be a little different because we will work in small groups each of which will be led by those of our awesomely talented 2013 year 7s who are still interested in making and anchoring Wave TV. Hopefully we will be able to make 3 or 4 episodes per term in small groups of about 8. In the next week or so I will put the call out for expressions of interest in Wave TV 2014 from 2014's year 6, 7 & 8s.

Thanks, Caroline

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.

Week 10 Term 2

Congratulations you are reading the Wave TV blog. It's nearly the end of the term! Here is the schedule for next week. See you then!

Ep 5 edit:

• 9:30- Georgie and Emma- Horse riding
• 10:00- Waterslide- Yasmine, Kai, Em
• 11:00- Camp Mudslide- Troy & Isaac
• 11:45- Camp intro outro edit- Em & Geogia
• 1:30- Science fair edit- Ben & Hayden

Ep6 film:

• 1:30- Science fair- Jake & Yasmine
• 2:00- Rugby- Em & Nic

Poll:

More episodes and shorter or less episodes and longer? That is the question!

 The episodes now are about 8-10 minutes.

By the amazing ones Jake, Troy and Yasmine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Week 9

Episode 4

• We need to finish getting photo permissions for Ep 4 stories
• Credits & final edit

Episode 5

Editing

• 9:30- 10:00  Georgie & Emma- Horseriding
• 10:00- 10:30 Yasmine, Kai, Em- Waterslide
• 11:00- 11:45- Mudslide
• 11:45-12:00- Intro & Outro- Chethi & Georgia
• 12:00- 12:30- Jesper & Milly- Flag Rugby
• 1:30- 2:00- Ben & Hayden- Science Fair

Filming Ep 6

• 1:30- Sophie- Holiday story
• 9:30- Michael & Ben practise yummy stickers, film at 2:00. Crew= Kai & Chenthi
• 9:45- Melissa & Emma- Multi-coloured Mayhem- Crew= Chantelle & Abby
• 2pm- Nic & Em- Rugby Tournament- Crew?

Poll- What do you think- greenscreen or no greenscreen? That is the question!