{"id":248,"date":"2020-08-25T14:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/hybridteaching\/?p=248"},"modified":"2020-08-25T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:44:04","slug":"production-studios-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/hybridteaching\/production-studios-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Media production studios experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Nikki Moran, Reid School of Music
14th August 2020
n.moran@ed.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Production\nStudios pilot recordings \u2013 I did a session so I thought I\u2019d tell you about it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went to High School Yards yesterday morning for a pilot\nsession of the new media recording services. I\u2019m sharing thoughts on it here to\nlet you know what to expect if you’re thinking about using this service\nyourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In two hours, we recorded materials for 6 x short (2-3\nminute) ‘piece to camera’ lectures. \n\u2018Piece to camera\u2019 means a headshot recording of my yabbering face. The\nmaterial is for a Semester 1 course, and will also be used to update an\nexisting MOOC which deals with the same content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I was working with a revised version of lecture material\nfrom last year, which I’d improved it in a series of drafts based on feedback\nfrom colleagues.  This meant I could boil\neach segment down to 3 minutes max.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is dead important. Piece to camera works best when it\nis v v short. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piece to camera can be interspersed with graphics, stock\nfootage, slides etc. This requires planning and story-boarding, which I think\nis the most fun bit. I have always loved story-telling. So it’s frustrating at\nthe moment that there is so little time to do this.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, pre-recorded lectures don’t have to include our\nfaces. It’s stressful, it feels very exposing. And do you remember how humid it\nwas yesterday. Yabbering face amidst frizzy hair.  But.  I\nchose piece-to-camera for because: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. I’m not at the stage to create graphics or choose stock\nfootage. (The children only went back to school yesterday, and for how\nlong…?)  But having the complete\nsegments recorded and in the bag means we can sort this out later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The nature of these scripts – the content – deserves an\nidentifiable, explaining face to go along with it. One segment is introductory,\nit’s the first welcome to the course. \nThe other sections comprise a five-part contextualising micro-lecture\naddressing bias and ethnocentricism in the subject matter. It’s complex stuff\nand I want to deliver it humanely and accountably, not impersonally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you just have straightforward content and slides\nalready, a decent microphone voiceover recorded with Kaltura to Media Hopper or\nsomething is brilliant.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you have reason to feel that face-to-face delivery of\nsome content would work better to engage students – maybe just for an early\nweek, establishing what the course is, what you want students to do and what\nyou want them to get from it \u2013 the Media Production service is a supportive way\nto do it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the reasons I found it supportive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Scheduling it gives you a clean deadline and then it’s\ndone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.  No crowd, but\nyou’re not on your own: one efficient, professional, sympathetic\ntechnician\/recordist who will coach you through it, handle the auto-cue speed,\nand tell you if your rumbling tummy is loud enough to have spoiled the take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Superb quality of audio and video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve put quality down there at no.3, because I think there is a lot to say for using lo-fi content in blended learning. Glossiness can sit badly and seem inauthentic next to the real, messy business of responsive teaching.\u00a0 But if you’ve got portions of important, basic content that are not going away any time soon – or if they’re headed for a large platform like Coursera MOOC – then a bit of gloss is nice. Very happy to answer questions or chat if colleagues are thinking about using this service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note:<\/strong> details of the Media Production Studios are available via our Tools and Technical Resources page \u2014\u00a0
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