Whose Name's the Domain?!
PC Early College
Video Club 2025
This is just a 30-second compilation of two student projects. Students were working on commerials for a product of their own choosing.
What's "For Sale" Here?!
Media-Meisters is a video club that also uses speaking in
interviewing, acting,
stand-ups, voice-over,
& commercials or "sales-pitching."
As the tabs suggest, there is also an emphasis on composing shots, editing video, some prepared speeches, and impromptu humor.
This site gives other ideas to draw on: speechmojo.com/tmworkshops
Stan Coss (Mr. C) taught video production with a TV show for 19 years at Polk County High School, as seen on speechmojo.com/tracks .
This 4-H club would focus on video while having elements of public speaking from his being a Toastmaster and his former days at BRCC.
*If you have questions on joining such a club, contact Mr. C at stancoss2@gmail.com . At this point, the club will meet twice a month for 90 minutes, starting September 16th, every other Wednesday at 3:30 PM at the Henderson County Center on Jackson Park Road for the 10 months school is in session.
Lipgloss Sale:
This is made in and around a school bathroom. An Invasion of Privacy may be an issue.
Here's a commerical similar to what this Media-Meister club might produce. . . .
4-H Video & Speech Club Goals
1. “Lights, Camera, Action”: the first aim of a video & speech club is to take on the mindset of the creator rather than just a consumer, to recognize and learn from strengths and weaknesses observed in the mediums, and then practice how to incorporate what is effective in our own storytelling and message. This is not just making videos or making speeches but a combination of both.
2. Brainstorming: ideas need to be explored and refined and expanded, as with storyboarding and outlining, to decide on and cultivate the message. Choose with your partner what story or message is important to you both and adapt to a set audience.
3. Commericals/Sales Pitch: this medium is the most popular one to draw upon for practice. It’s one thing to inform and another to inform persuasively, to pitch an idea so that others are engaged
4. Elements of Storytelling include Interviews, Stand-ups, Acting (in Interactions), Voice-over, Impromptus, Joke-telling, Speech-crafting and
Delivery: snippets of all of these and more will be viewed and practiced.
5. Composition: in our point and shoot selfie mentality, the 10 elements of composing shots are often ignored. These will be focused upon.
6. A-Roll and B-Roll: dual cameras need to be planned for but also allow for spontaneity, with only the basic techniques of the pan and zoom and steady shot.
7. Editing: uploading photos and video footage from the camera to the laptop or Ipad tablet will be the starting point to supplement with music and voice-overs and basic editing tools, like transitions.
8. The Audience: throughout the messaging process, there should be feedback, but the product, be it a speech or a video, will be rolled out for the club audience to react to and give glows and grows for revision. The final audience can be friends, another 4-H club, parents, Youtube, etc.
All Aboard!
This is not really a commercial to sell a product, and it would certainly fail as a hard-sell, but it did meet the the other class project requirements of a stand-up, five well -composed shots, and voice-over to reinforce a message. Granted, ceramic figures in a den don't get to go places very often.
Dent-Remover :
Benton, the student body president, got student driver approval to make his demonstrations of his product's effectiveness.
The Insta- Pass
& Multi-purpose Stapler Commercials
These from Austin Kempton tout an invention that students would like to make use of and a standard item with nonstandard uses.
* These Twitter/Facebook links purposefully don't work: we could do with less social media!