Career+Movie

This project is part of a unit where students use the Pennsylvania Career Guide to find a job that relates to their interests, personality, aptitudes, and abilities.

Once they have selected a career, they will research it on the Career Cruising website. This is a subscription site that our school uses but the research can be done using any resources on the Internet. Their research is guided by a worksheet entitled 20 Questions About Your Career.

I require students to achieve a grade of at least an 80% or better on this assignment. They continue to redo it until they meet that requirement. This is because the answers to the questions become the basis for the script of their movie.

This is the movie assignment directions and rubric.

After the research students write the script. Using a new Word doc the students turn the answers from questions 14 to 19 to create a narrative script for their story.

Next they find pictures for their story. I require 12: 1 for the title, 2 for credits, 1 for other resources, 2 for colleges, and 6 that will be for the main body of the script which describes the career in detail.

The movie is then assembled in Photo Story. Each image has narration and a small comment written on it. At the end, noncopyrighted music is added. The final project is saved as a .wmv file so it can be viewed in Windows Media Player.

At my school, I have asked to put these movies on the school webpage in a section called Career Exploration. This allows for authenticity to the project because real students and real parents will be watching the videos when they start thinking about a career to choose and what classes to take in high school.

Here is a student's project. Be sure to be in Internet Explorer to view it as it will not be playable in Mozilla Firefox.

This is a microsoft link to help you become better acquainted with Photo Story 3. It is a free download.