DVD: Bullying – It's not OK Ever
Year: 10
Curriculum level: Level 5
School: Katikati College
Teacher: Steve Graham
Student: Oscar Dowson, Marcel McCarthy and Dave Hollows
Strand: Technological Practice
Curriculum component: Planning for Practice
Technological area: Digital Technologies, Information and Communication Technologies
Oscar, Marcel and Dave decided to confront the issue of bullying at Katikati College by making a DVD about it.
The group adopted a project team approach and divided the project into tasks. As is standard industry practice, they wrote an overarching brief for the whole project – a group plan – and each student wrote a brief for her allocated part of it – one brief for the movie part, one brief for the DVD packaging, etc.
As well as requiring good group Technological Practice, the project required Oscar, Marcel and Dave to use the range of ICT skills and knowledge they had developed through the year. They used their knowledge of design principles and typography, they planned, shot, and edited the movie in iMovie, and they took and edited still photos in Photoshop and made them into a slideshow.
They then composed music in GarageBand, created DVD menus in iDVD, and produced the DVD package graphics in Freehand and Photoshop.
Each student was responsible for planning to ensure their part of the project was finished in line with the group timeline and that their contribution fitted with the overall group solution.
Teacher comment
"I enjoyed the project because it allowed each student to specialise in an area that they were interested in but it also required all team members to engage in good tech practice so that they could plan, prepare, create and evaluate their area of expertise. It also taught the students how to work within a group."
Steve Graham
DVD cover.