1. Welcome to the Inaugural Year of Film Production Class!
Mr. David H. Ernsberger
Mr. “E”.

2. Who is Mr. E? (let’s look backwards)
Coral Reef Senior High School (Film, English 11) 13 years (won awards)
Adjunct Professor, University of Miami, Cinematography (300 level) 2 years
Nautilus Middle School, NMB 1 yr (blech)
E. E. Productions, LLC (production company) 6 years (shot movies, won awards)
MFA Film Production, UM ’02 (shot 5 thesis films and made my own thesis film)
Gulliver Preparatory (Film) 6 years (won awards)
BS Film Production, Creative Writing, ’94 (made many movies)
Graduated, Mount Saint Charles ’88 (made many movies, photography 3 yrs)
Been making movies since I was 14
Introduced to photography in 6th grade
Writing a book about teaching Film Production to high school and college students

3. Welcome to Your Award-Winning Class!
Our short film, “Mad World”
won several awards in 2014’s
Florida Film Institute Film Festival.
I have high hopes for the students of Somerset Silver Palms High School!
This class changes lives.
At Coral Reef, Academies went out the window. You couldn’t tell what Academy a kid was in.

4. What You Will Need For This Class:
An SD card of at least 4 GB
A notebook
A folder to keep handouts in
Loose leaf paper (or rip-able paper—no scraggles)
Any combination of these three so long as you have all three
A pen or pencil

5. Class Fee
SUPPLIES/FEES
This year, there is no fee.

6. C.A.C. The Cinematic Arts Commission
The club I sponsor. Our first meeting will be Tuesday.
We work very hard on special projects throughout the year.
We meet Tuesdays at noon in room 207.

7. What you will do in this class (an incredibly general overview):
Learn how to write, shoot, and edit narrative and news digital films, like a professional, from concept to screen.
Learn how to produce a live TV show in our state of the art, live production studio.

8. Somerset Silver Palms Discipline tree
Verbal warning from teacher
Parent contact from teacher
Referral from teacher
…Let’s not even get this far, ok?

9. The Public Eye
This is a very public class. We are always out there, always visible; whether we are shooting, or broadcasting on the Clear Touch systems, computers, or online to the general public—someone is always seeing us perform.
You represent this class, you represent SASP, and you represent ME!
If you misrepresent this class, you will be in trouble…

10. The “Do Nots”
Do not touch any of the teacher computers; no printing, no checking grades, no nothing! You can BYOD so use them! It is not worth getting in trouble using a teacher's computer.
Do not touch anything in any of the teacher desk drawers unless instructed to do so. The table is yours (not the printers).
Do not touch the Clear Touch or any of the Clear Touch remotes or pointers unless instructed to do so.
Do not touch the Clear Touch board with anything except your fingers or a stylus--NO DRY ERASE MARKERS.
Do not unwittingly rub against the Clear Touch board. It is may be on and you may delete something accidentally.

11. The “Do Nots” continued…
Do not move desks.
Do not move or remove chairs, stools, or any furniture from any rooms unless instructed to do so.
Do not sit in any of the rolly chairs—they are for adult visitors.
Do not remove the doorstops from the rooms.

12. The “Do Nots” continued.
Do not use profanity of any sort.
Do not disrespect others.
Do not do anything stupid (more on that later).

13. The “Do Nots” continued.
Misrepresent this class.
What does that mean?
Saying you are doing something for my class when you are actually not—especially when you are not even in the class at the time.
F for misrepresentation (16 grades)
Call or home
When you misrepresent this class, it is dishonest and disrespectful, and it undermines what we are here to do. We need people to believe us and believe IN us in order to accomplish what we need to do (specifically, the teachers).
When you misrepresent this class, it diminishes us in the eyes of the people who appreciate what we do for the school and for the community (specifically, the Administration).
TRUST

14. You may: Say please and thank you;
Always ask a question (before something goes wrong);
Always make a suggestion;
Have fun.

15. How will we communicate?
NOT
And I will try to manage these…
You will have to join this and/or…

16. How will we communicate?
!!!
Soon, I will ask each of you to write your name, student number, phone number, and a working that you check into an Excel file. This will make it easy for me to contact you as a class, and make other lists in the future.

17. ER Manager
At some point, when we start production, we are going to need some individuals to manage the Equipment Room.
You need to be:
Honest, hard working, trustworthy, organized, and patient.
And, maybe have a little desire to be in charge of stuff.
Put it in the back of your mind—it will come up later.

18. Digital Video Production Contract
You will sign it, take it home, have your parents sign it.

19. Mr. E. (Mr. Ernsberger) dernsberger@somersetsilverpalms.net
And now, we start…
Mr. E. (Mr. Ernsberger)