In the next lesson we discussed the different angles and shot types that you can include in a video, we decided together in a pair that we wanted to keep our video quite simple so we were going to stick to basic shots as we wanted the audience to focus on our information that we were giving.

“Why learn a foreign langauge?”

When asked this question it is very simple for myself to answer as I have only gained basic French skills in my school life, however when asking other people around us in our classroom setting we soon realised that many people had answers you would not expect.

We created our storyboard and tried to work out where we would place all of our ideas so that our video flowed and it was easy for the audience to follow and gain the right information. We decided that we wanted to figure out what langauges different people spoke and also if learning a langauge or picking up another was beneficial in anyway.

This was the first lesson that we first started concentrating on our video essay for this module. We looked at the type of information that we would have to include with/within our video essay. This lesson was the lesson where we first came up with our ideas of what our main topic may be about.

• Formal and informal learning
• Using technology within early childhood
• Advantages of technology with disabled children
• Foreign languages

The last point ‘foreign langauges’ became our main inspiration when thinking of our main topic. After many consideration and debates on what the title should be called we decided that it would be interesting to look at ‘why’ people should learn foreign languages. This is relatable in some way to my pair as one of us can speak fluently in Spanish,  if you look further down in the my blog you will have realised that we have also adopted this topic into another video.

Within this first lesson we had to create a 6 cell story board online which gave us an insight into how to create one for our video essay. We created it on Storyboard that.com

In this lesson we also learnt about different lighting techniques, one thing that stood out to us was that natural lighting is always better which we wanted to keep in mind for the shooting of our video essay.