Teaching and post- for the Virtual Video Project
In May, the really useful media company’s Dan Winckler joined Global Kids’ Virtual Video Project, an after-school program, to replace a departing instructor. In the VVP, the GK Leaders (all high school and college age students) choose an issue of global significance to research and create a film to promote awareness of it. This year the students wrote their film about the effects of racism on youth access to education. And did we mention it was entirely shot as machinima in Second Life? In addition to guiding the students through final scripting, shooting, and editing with co-teacher Tabitha Tsai, Dan assembled the students’ iMovie edits in Final Cut Pro, adding niceties like audio cleanup/sweetening, lipsync tightening, background sounds, color correction, and some custom graphics of the students’ happy faces for the end credits. You can watch their film Race to Equality below and read more about the process on the Global Kids blog.