Work: team of 3 students

Time: 3 weeks (150 minutes)

Objective: Create a 6 to 8-minute-long video in which you and your classmates talk about two families or the families of each of the team members.

Alternate project: Present and interview a Spanish speaking family that you or your classmates know. This project may be 5 to 6 minutes long, but no longer than 8 minutes.

Create a video

NOTES:
a) ANY VIDEO LONGER THAN 9 MINUTES WILL HAVE 20 POINTS DEDUCTED FROM THE FINAL GRADE.
b) EVERY STUDENT HAS TO APPEAR IN THE VIDEO OR BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WRITING, NARRATING, OR EDITING THE VIDEO.
c) IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO THE ALTERNATE PROJECT, TWO OF YOU HAVE TO INTERVIEW THE SPANISH SPEAKING FAMILY AND THE OTHER TEAM MEMBER HAS TO NARRATE AT LEAST HALF OF THE VIDEO.

Instructions:

1.First decide if everybody will talk about their family, if you will profile the family of one or two of the group members, or if you will do the alternate project.
2.For every family profiled, you have to include its family tree, which has to appear in the video. You may want to take a picture or scan it and save it as a picture to use it in your video. The family tree has to cover the nuclear family, the grandparents, at least one uncle and one aunt. You may add one or two pets.
3.For every family, focus on one of its members. Say what he/she likes, if he/she works, studies, or stays at home. Use at least five descriptive adjectives for this individual.
4.Include pictures or video of the person you picked.
5.Shoot the video or prepare a photostory of your story. Another way to prepare this project is to use PowerPoint, this way you may include pictures, names and a few sentences about the family. You may include your audio with your PowerPoint.
6. Each team members has to post this project on her/his e-portfolio.

Suggestions:
To make the work easier, if all of you cannot work on every step at the same time, you may want to divide your chores --writing the script, drawing the family tree(s) and scanning it/them, narrating, editing the video or the PowerPoint.

You may also use QuickTime, iMovie, Flash, or Windows Movie Maker.

Extra:
If you decide to profile a Spanish speaking family, you may also show their home or their workplace. Remember that Chesterfield is home to thousands of Spanish speaking families.

OFF- Only For Fun:
If you want to protect your family privacy, then pretend to be part of a very famous family instead –the British or Spanish royals, an American clan like the Kennedy, the Jackson or Jolie-Pitt.