I'm not going to say that it's easy to make a video that caters to younger students, but when my group started brainstorming, we lamented the fact that, as future high school teachers, we had to make a video based around very complex content standards. We eventually settled on the standards relating to Greek thought and its impact on Western civilization. Someone introduced the idea of using Plato and Aristotle as actual characters in the video, and our idea evolved from there.
Since I was going to play Plato and Aristotle, it fell to me to write their dialog. I decided to write their introductions to be like public service announcements or something close to that, where Plato and Aristotle are teaching kids about the importance of law and how tyrants are bad. Kind of like Bill Nye for civics, and done in sort of a tongue in cheek manner that might play well to older students.
Creating a storyboard helped us to come up with ideas and it gave us a visual guideline to follow while filming. We decided to shoot a couple of extra short scenes to round out the video, but the storyboard helped to keep the main ideas clear. I like that storyboarding is just a very basic outline that we could then build on top of. I don't know if a real movie storyboard includes every single shot, I assume it does, but because we had limited space we eventually chose to go beyond what we had drawn out because we felt like we needed more.
It'll be interesting to see how the editing pans out, but there are a lot of tools there that will really make the video work, if I can put them to good use.
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