SkillsUSA AV Skilled Competitions Donna Allen

TV Production

Eligibility Students must be a SkillsUSA member in a TV production program. This competition including 2 students.

Clothing Regulations Students must wear a white polo, black pants, black socks, and black shoes. Girls can wear a black skirt that is knee length and not skin tight with panty hose under it.

Information in General

How to incorporate into your lesson Have students create: PSA’s for different clients Commercials for different clients Analyze the different promos on national TV, youtube, websites

Hints on how to prepare Have students practice after school a a couple days with different topics. Have students practice various editing techniques Time Management

Coaches Mistakes -No Flashdrive -No batteries for camera, microphones, etc -Computer crashes, no backup plan -Don’t stick to the prompt, read the prompt -Poor Time Management

Digital Cinema

Eligibility Students must be a SkillsUSA member in a TV production program. This competition including 2 students.

Clothing Regulations Students must wear a white polo, black pants, black socks, and black shoes. Girls can wear a black skirt that is knee length and not skin tight with panty hose under it.

Information in General

How to incorporate into your lesson -Have students create shorts, documentaries -Have students script properly, and create shot lists or storyboards

Hints on how to prepare -Have students practice after school a couple days -Practice Time Management -Have them include certain phrases, props -Give them different topics/prompts -Have them pitch their story and be prepared to defend their shots

Coaches Mistakes -computer crashes, no backup -don’t have a visual for the interivew -Can’t defend their film and why they chose to approach it the way they did

Radio Production

Eligibility Students must be a SkillsUSA member in a TV production program. This competition including 2 students.

Clothing Regulations Students must wear a white polo, black pants, black socks, and black shoes. Girls can wear a black skirt that is knee length and not skin tight with panty hose under it.

Information in General - the guidelines for us, normally, are a 2 and a half minute newscast with a 30 second commercial embedded in it. -they can't use copyrighted music or productions -the newscast must incorporate audio from the source (press conference or interview) -MUST turn it as a .wav file on a thumb drive that you don't want back -they must bring a resume with them

How to incorporate into your lesson -The contest chair has his students practice 3 times before they go to district -microphone placement and recorder use -interviewing skills -news judgement -quote extraction (the interview is usually pretty long) -vocal elements (tone, pacing, enunciation, inflection) -production - music choice, editing preferences, time constraints -file formatting - wav files vs mp3 files

Hints on how to prepare -Practice time management - all of the students can edit, ask questions and record vocals, but for some reason when they are put up against the clock, they struggle. -Also practice how to write a script for 2 minutes worth of news. -Practice giving them different prompts - this one is about an event, this is one is about a baseball team, this is one is about a museum, etc.

Coaches Mistakes -no flash drive -no resume -quadruple check what time your competition starts and ends -bring equipment that you are SURE works -make sure the students understand the tone of the project - they don't have to sound like they're dead just because it's news

Broadcast

Eligibility Students must be a SkillsUSA member in a TV production program. This competition including four students. There is a director (this student is both the director and technical director), floor director, and two anchors.

Clothing Regulations The anchors wear full SkillsUSA attire with the blazers for the state contest. The talent needs to wear a white shirt, black tie for a guy, black pants or skirt, black shoes and black belt. The director and floor director need to wear a white polo shirt, black pants and black shoes. The polo shirt does not have to be official for district or state. Check with your local chair for the district contest about required attire

Information in General Students use Inception to write their stories from an AP packet. Students must rewrite the stories, they CANNOT just copy and paste the stories in the packet. The teleprompter may or may not go out during the broadcast. This is to simulate a real world scenario

How to incorporate into your lesson WATCH THE NEWS!! Create a daily show for your school

Hints on how to prepare Have students watch the news. Find a veteran teacher to help answer any questions. Darcy Deupree is happy to help at darcy.deupree@fwisd.org. She also has tutorials on how to use inception. Just ask for them to be emailed. All test questions come from the News and Documentary sections of Cyber College.

Coaches Mistakes Send teams that don't have four people. Teams don't write their own stories. Teams spend more time arguing during writing time than writing. Teams don't know the news. Don't stress about switcher...1-2-3 is 1-2-3 on any switcher. Don't stress about cameras. You do not have to white balance. Just worry about framing. Take advantage of practice time the day before contest.