TASK 1 - THE BRIEF December 1999 - March 2000

Production 'News from the School'
- Collecting Ideas:
- which subjects could we choose?
- special events, class, staff, school building, problems, ....
- get into groups, each group produces its own report
- Recording Images:
- what could be recorded?
- record footage for each article
- Writing:
- what comments/text would we need for each report?
- each group writes one short report to go with the recorded footage
- Studio (or classroom):
- who will be the presenter/operate camera/..
- each group records their short text
- Editing
- what would we use for our first programme?
- select the material for the first programme
(tape number, timecode, length of the sequence)
- editing of the programme
- image, titles, sound

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Distribution of the tapes
- Transmission:
- programmes broadcast at the Open Channel
- Exchange:
- video tapes exchanged with all partners

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Evaluation
- Discuss the programmes in the class
- how have the other children done their programme?
    - what do we share with them?
  - in the way we made the news?
  - what is different?
- why didn't we do it like they did it?
- Ideas for next task:
- what could we do better next time?