2018-19 Meetings

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June 3, 2019

DATE: June 3, 2019
WHERE: CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom
WHEN: 6:00PM - 7:00PM
SCHOOLS: Capital, Avanti, Jefferson, Marshall, Washington
CTE TEACHERS:  Brett Bartlett, Marc Coyner, Brenda Diettrich, Michael Johnston, Scott Le Duc, Jonathan Moore
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Eric Belgau, Jay Balakrishnan, James Clark, Michelle Cleary, Jenna Cusack, Abby Dyck, Tom Dyer, Aaron Field, Jesse Field, Andrew Landers, Jonathan Marrs, Sam McCleary, Kaisä Niemi, Tim Rants, Eric Strand, Ehren Wolf
STUDENTS: Natalie Leid
NOT PRESENT: 
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Michelle Cleary
COMMITTEE CHAIR SIGNATURE: Michelle Cleary
NEXT MEETING: June/July-ish CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom

ACTION ITEMS

  • Scott:

AGENDA

  • Review lists
  • Review Skills Lists Process for Summer
  • Celebrate Student Successes

NOTES

Previous Meeting Minutes

  • Previous meeting minutes were approved

Advisory Members Binary Choices Lists

  • EHREN - Sound Design, Audio Work flow/Completion
  • ERIC - Pro script deep dive
  • KAISA - Lyrics, songwriting
  • SAM - Game mechanics from PURE NARRATIVE
  • GRACEN - 1st Short film
  • SANDER - Translating English into code
  • JUDE - Foley Design/Music Theory
  • ABBY - Knowing the Devil (STORY STRUCTURE)
  • TOM - Listen, Signal Flow, Problem Solving
  • JAY - Machinima
  • JENNA - Role of Producer, Role of AD
  • ERIC - Animation
  • JAMES - Audition process
  • MICHELLE - Interviews/Resume template/Skills Tracker
  • JONATHAN - Film idea generation

Review Skills List Process for Summer

  • Get skills lists cleaned up, organized and ready to July's goal of looking at project structure (scope and sequence)
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Review New Media Resume Template

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Celebrate Student Successes

  • Things and more things
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Set Date for Next Meeting

  • End of June, July and August
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May 31, 2019

DATE: May 31, 2019
WHERE: CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom
WHEN: 3:00PM - 4:15PM
SCHOOLS: Capital
CTE TEACHERS:  Scott Le Duc
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Tom Dyer

ACTION ITEMS

  • Scott: Read notes

AGENDA

  • Stuff

NOTES

In preparation for our meeting at 3:00, I reviewed the following docs:

  • Rock- CapitalComTech
  • Rock 2 Year Unit Schedule
  • 2018-19 School of Rock Syllabus
  • Journal of the Music Entertainment Industry Educators Association ranked competency list
  • WA State Learning Standards – The Arts Learning Standard – Media Arts

Having reviewed that material, I have a lot of questions. I figured I would jot them down and send them to you prior to our meeting.

The program is broken down in to Year 1 & 2. Can a student take a 3rd or 4th year and if so, what differentiates those years?

Do the level 1 & 2 classes meet at the same time? If so, how does that work?

How is class time used? Lecture? Project work? Demonstration?

In the Course Units description, it looks like a topic is addressed once and then on to the next topic. For example, microphones get 10 hours in the first year and none in the second year. Is that correct or is further mic work folded into other topics?

How much homework do they have out of class? Do they have required reading?

How are students assessed? Are there written tests? The Rock 2 Year Unit schedule shows a lot of projects used for assessments. Are there descriptions of these projects for the students to reference? Are there rubrics for those projects? The grading links from 2010 don’t seem to be working.

It looks like a lot of their assessment is based on journals. How often are those journals assessed? Do students have enough time to straighten their course if the journal shows them to be off track?

MEIEA Material includes a 160 student competency list. Are these intended for HS students, college students or both? If used for the program what level does the CHS program go to – Basic or Intermediate? How many of these competencies does the program address and how are they assessed.

The OSPI Media Art leaning standards are somewhat vague (ok, broad ). Does the program address those standards?

When I think about curriculum, my question is always, what will the student be able to do at the end of a given unit, be it a day, a week, a term or a year. What competencies can they meet and how do you know that? As a teacher, I always tried to be as clear as possible what students should be able to do by the end of every weekly class and every term for each class. That is not super clear to me from these materials.

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May 20, 2019

DATE: May 20, 2019
WHERE: CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom
WHEN: 6:00PM - 7:00PM
SCHOOLS: Capital, Avanti, Jefferson, Marshall, Washington
CTE TEACHERS:  Michael Johnston, Scott Le Duc
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Eric Belgau, Jay Balakrishnan, Michelle Cleary, Jenna Cusack, Abby Dyck, Tim Rants, Andrew Landers, James Clark, Eric Strand, Jesse Field
STUDENTS:
NOT PRESENT: Brett Bartlett, Marc Coyner, Brenda Diettrich, Jonathan Moore, Aaron Field
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Michelle Cleary
COMMITTEE CHAIR SIGNATURE: Michelle Cleary
NEXT MEETING: June/July -ish CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom

ACTION ITEMS

  • Scott:

AGENDA

  • Stuff

NOTES

Previous Meeting Minutes

  • Previous meeting minutes were approved

Partners Frameworks and Leadership Equivalencies

Feedback from the Industry

Celebrate Student Successes

Shared Progress

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May 15, 2019

DATE: May 15, 2019
WHERE: OSD Boardroom
WHEN: 5:30 - 7:00PM
SCHOOLS: Capital, Avanti, Jefferson, Marshall, Washington
CTE TEACHERS:  Michael Johnston, Scott Le Duc, Brett Bartlett, Marc Coyner, Brenda Diettrich, Jonathan Moore
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Michelle Cleary
STUDENTS:
NOT PRESENT: The rest of the committee
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Michelle Cleary
COMMITTEE CHAIR SIGNATURE: Michelle Cleary
NEXT MEETING: May 20th CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom

ACTION ITEMS

  • Scott: Email reminder for the next meeting

AGENDA

  • Approve 3 year plan
  • Review progam narrative
  • Review market data

NOTES

Review Labor Market Data

  • Labor market data from the November 28th Jane Field presentation was reviewed and discussed

3 Year Plan Review and Approved

Program Narrative and Successes Review

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May. 1, 2019

DATE: May. 1, 2019
WHERE: Tom Dyer's Studio, 2502 Division St NW
WHEN: 5:00 - 6:30PM
SCHOOLS: Capital
CTE TEACHERS:  Michael Johnston, Scott Le Duc
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Michelle Cleary, Tom Dyer,
STUDENTS: Chandler Roe

ACTION ITEMS

  • Scott: Add ideas discussed into School of Rock curriculum, schedule, and framework

AGENDA

  • Discuss the steps of a recording session to improve the School of Rock music recording workflow

NOTES

Tom's Bio

  • He is a recording/mastering engineer/producer, an independent record label mogul, an educator and a musician.
  • As a record label guy, he gets out about six-to-eight releases a year on Green Monkey Records, including an annual charity Christmas album.
  • As a musician, he has been pretty prolific of late with eleven releases in the last seven years and more on the way.
  • As an educator, he was the founding Department Chair of the Audio Production program at the Art institute of Seattle and taught audio classes for ten years.
  • As an engineer, he is for hire! Check out Tom Dyer's Studio.
  • He has been a member of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Recording Academy for over twenty years and served on the Board of Governors for three years recently.

Tom Quotes

  • "How to get good at recording? Do it lots!"
  • "Record more and do it better."

Technical Advice

  • Use any DAW, digital audio workstation
    • Tom uses ProTools
  • Preparing for a session with musicians
    • Find out the parameters of the project beforehand
    • Set up expected tracks for the expected instruments and have a half dozen more, in case they are needed
    • Prepare separation for tracking multiple sound sources in the same room
      • Shared a story of using two figure 8 mics, one for the singer and one for the acoutic guitar
        • Figure 8 mics have great side rejection, thus help to isolate the voice and guitar on separate tracks
    • Recommended using Cascade Microphones, an Olympia company at 630 O'Leary St NW
    • Stressed the importance of the artist having a good monitor mix
    • Talked about Latency is a delay in hearing audio that passes through a DAW
      • 64 milliseconds works well for most 32 milliseconds really stresses the computer
      • Longer than 64 is noticeable to the artist and negatively affects overdubbing
    • Watch the players, anticipate needs
      • Make them comfortable
      • Easier to get a good take
    • Recording should be fun!
  • He charges an hourly rate
    • Sometimes he will asked to make a better deal of a group is going to book a lot of time
  • While recording, really like the music being made
    • Publishing it is another thing
    • Not all recorded music should be released
    • Record a lot, release sparingly
  • Students need to learn to wrap cables!
  • Discipline = confidence
    • Holding students to a higher expectations helps them build confidence
    • Shared story of deleting hard drives every day at the beginning of class
    • If students didn't back up work, it was gone
    • This only needed to happen once for them to get the message of being professional

Creative Advice

  • Artists need to prepare
  • Artists need restrictions to foster creativity
  • Artists/Technicians need problems to solve

Other Observations

  • Less teacher talking and more students recording
  • Record more and do it better each time
    • This is how one gets better at recording
  • Give students a problem a week to solve
  • Create projects for tangible results
  • Have volunteers run the studio, when appropriate
  • The teacher should work mostly with the advanced students

Mar. 24, 2019

DATE: Mar. 24, 2019
WHERE: Robert Lang Studios, 19351 23rd Ave NW, Shoreline, WA 98177
WHEN: 5:00 - 6:30PM
SCHOOLS: Capital
CTE TEACHERS:  Scott Le Duc
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Jesse Field
STUDENTS:

ACTION ITEMS

  • Invite Jesse to visit CHS Capital Studio to get feedback about our equipment, workflow and other studio specific recommendations
  • Discuss game music with Ailisa
  • Integrate her resources into School of Rock

AGENDA

NOTES

Ailisa Newhall

Jesse Field

Technical Advice

  • Jesse and Scott spoke about workflow, equipment, and other helpful items for the School of Rock class
  • Recommends Behringer P16-M Powerplay Personal Headphone Mixer (16-Channel) ($299.00 per unit) for artist monitoring
  • Recommends Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro Circumaural Closed Back Stereo Studio Headphones 250 Ohm and Beyerdynamic DT990PRO 250 Ohm Professional Open Design Studio Headphones for headphone mixing on the computers

Picture of the Studio

Dec. 22, 2018

DATE: Dec. 22, 2018
WHERE: The Huntington Apartments front office at 913 Lilly Rd. NE Olympia, 98506
WHEN: 12:00 - 2:00PM
SCHOOLS: Capital, Avanti, Jefferson, Marshall, Washington
CTE TEACHERS:  Michael Johnston, Scott Le Duc
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Eric Belgau, Jay Balakrishnan, Michelle Cleary, Jenna Cusack, Abby Dyck, Tim Rants
STUDENTS:
NOT PRESENT: Brett Bartlett, Marc Coyner, Brenda Diettrich, Jonathan Moore, Aaron Field
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Michelle Cleary
COMMITTEE CHAIR SIGNATURE: Michelle Cleary
NEXT MEETING: March 1st-ish (to be confirmed after SkillsUSA regional competition) CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom

ACTION ITEMS

AGENDA

  • Previous Meeting Minutes
  • Conditional Certification
  • Review Labor Market Data
  • Feedback from the Industry
  • Frameworks and Leadership Equivalencies
  • Celebrate Student Successes
  • Shared Progress

NOTES

Previous Meeting Minutes

  • Previous meeting minutes were approved

Conditional Certification

  • Teacher conditional certificates were approved

Review Labor Market Data

  • Labor market data from the November 28th Jane Field presentation was reviewed and discussed

Partners Frameworks and Leadership Equivalencies

  • Advisory group members reviewed frameworks
    • Binders were passed around for viewing and approval
    • The frameworks were approved
  • Leadership equivalencies for SkillsUSA were shared
    • Specifically the SkillsUSA regional competitions for both technical skills and leadership skills were shared and discussed
    • Capital will be hosting the regional SkillsUSA Cinema Film Production contest Jan.19th, 2019
      • Contest Details
      • No other regional high schools offered, so Capital will host
      • This is our first SkillsUSA regional competition hosting
    • Many members have volunteered to help
      • Eric, James and Jay will judge as well as previous members of the class Sam Sego and Emily Berbells
      • Michelle will help organize and run the event
      • SkillsUSA students not competing will help organize and coordinate during the event
    • Tim gave us the idea for the Jan. 19th film contest prompt: How did you learn from being told no?
      • Explanation: He shared that students need to learn to reflect and grow from being told 'No'. Life-long learners, when not making the grade, being hired, or failing at things ask questions to learn from the experience.
        • "Why didn't I succeed?"
        • "What can I do better next time?"

Feedback from the Industry

  • Emphasis highlighted about primarily preparing most students for labor market data in job zone 1; core professional skills
  • Educating students about burnout in creative industries where getting the job done is the most important element, above personal health and well being, at times, is essential for them to better understand expectations of the job
  • Discussed having a Industry Readiness Award for the students that get things done and done well
    • The idea was floated to randomly text a student with a task for their specific role in a film or other media production
      • This is to see if they can drop what they are doing and get the task done in a timely fashion
      • This activity would be to model professional tasks during film shoots or other time-sensitive productions where everyone needs to be ready to perform at a moments notice
  • Discussion about using SCRUM in classes to better support student teams
    • Wikipedia: Scrum is an agile framework for managing knowledge work, with an emphasis on software development. It is designed for teams of three to nine members, who break their work into actions that can be completed within timeboxed iterations, called "sprints", no longer than one month and most commonly two weeks, then track progress and re-plan in 15-minute stand-up meetings, called daily scrums.

Celebrate Student Successes

  • SkillsUSA students Gracen Bayer and Jordie Simpson have entered a powerful film titled "Stay True" to the 2019 All Girls Film Challenge
    • Advisory members Abby and Jenna were top honors at this contest last year

Shared Progress

  • Abby and Jenna shared their current projects

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Oct. 15, 2018

WHERE: River’s Edge
WHEN: 6:30-8:00pm
CTE TEACHERS: Scott Le Duc, Marc Coyner, Brett Bartlett
COMMUNITY MEMBERS:  Tim Rants, Eric Belgau, Michelle Cleary, James Clark
NOT PRESENT: Jonathan Moore, Jay Balakrishnan, Students: Abby Dyck, Jenna Cusack, Aaron Field, Sam McCleary
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Michelle Cleary
NEXT MEETING: December 22, 2018 12PM, location TBA

GENERAL DISCUSSION

  • Discussed real world connections/activities within the classroom
  • Creativity is subjective
  • Kids need to understand that repetition and producing material no matter how bad, is critical to the process
  • Kids have an unrealistic standard now because of popular/professional media and it fosters their insecurities
  • How do we help kids overcome that? We do it through helping them develop Visual Literacy
  • Eric is currently opening a production company in Montana
    • He also mentioned the uniqueness around Hallmark’s style of having a crew shot the content and another team cuts it
      • May make for an interesting classroom project.
  • CTE Teachers needs in the classroom
    • Brett Bartlett: News/Broadcasting experience would be helpful in his call. Scott recommended he connect with Mike and Jonathan.
    • Marc Coyner: Could use Production expertise/guidance in the classroom. Mainly technique driven on how to get the right shot/angel.

COMMITMENTS

  • Eric and James agreed to go to Scott’s classroom on Tuesday, Oct. 23rd
    • Eric will share general skills/strategies for success in the world of work and get specific to media industries later in the year
    • Eric will read screenplays and give feedback later in the year
    • James will observe Eric's visit on the 23rd
    • James will be in class to discuss acting tips on Thursday Nov. 1st
  • Jay will be visiting both Game Design ad School of Rock the 1st part of November
  • Michelle agreed to help implement a plan for mock interviews
    • Relating their story to a cover letter
    • Their pitch is their resume
    • Blog post can show progress and become their portfolio
    • Michelle will provide links and resources for students
    • Near the end of the year we will do the mock interviews and provide feedback
  • Jonathan and Mike are connecting on how they can focus their efforts on the skills and resources for a pathway to students that will funnel into Capital

NEXT STEPS

  • Identify location for Holiday Potluck meeting on December 22
  • Create agenda and goals/outcomes of December 22nd meeting

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Sept. 10, 2018

WHERE: CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom
WHEN: 6:00 - 7:00PM
CTE TEACHERS:  Scott Le Duc, Jonathan Moore, Kevin Wright
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Eric Belgau, Jay Balakrishnan, Michelle Cleary, Jenna Cusack, Abby Dyck, Aaron Field
STUDENTS: Sam McCleary
NOT PRESENT: Brett Bartlett, Marc Coyner
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Michelle Cleary
NEXT MEETING: Oct. 15, 2018 6:30-7:30PM at River's Edge in Tumwater

ACTION ITEMS

  • ALL: Gather ideas for program core concepts brainstorming session March 27th

AGENDA

  • Introductions
  • Review of middle and high school programs
  • Discussion of core competencies

GENERAL DISCUSSION

The committee asked prior students (Aaron, Abby and Jenna) for feedback on what “worked” and what priorities they think should be focused on to better prepare students for college level industry courses. We also discussed what 21st Century skills were the most valuable that should continue being taught and what should be implemented.

Aaron- What “Worked”

  • Blog Post
  • Deadlines
  • Consistency
  • Showing Progress
  • Team work on projects
  • Collaboration
  • Continue watching and breaking down films in class, breaking down scenes
  • Film theory
  • Technical applications and knowledge

Aaron-Priorities of Focus

  • Learning right away what roles are more creative vs. technical
  • Collaboration between other departments and student body. Examples: being able to utilize a screenplay for a writing assignment in English; Utilizing choir, band for music in a film; using kids from theater as actors in your movie.
  • Multi-media platform

Abby-What “Worked”

  • Emphasis on story
  • Learning technical skills of how lighting, blocking etc. helps to tell the story
  • Repetition

Abby-Priorities of Focus

  • Story
  • Showing not telling
  • Learn how to show story w/out dialogue
  • Short film projects, change, create emotion
  • Learning how to communicate your story to others

Jenna- What “Worked”

  • Learning the fundamentals of each disciplines
  • Communicating
  • Creative ideas for expression
  • Development
  • 3 ACT (I think this is what she said) structure methods
  • Keep trying
  • Know it’s okay to fail

Jenna-Priorities of Focus

  • Connection, ex. Editing (cut to create connection, why, how, when to transition)
  • Know deeper understanding of each role. Director, Editing, Photography, Production
  • Professionalism on a set and on a team
  • Accelerated production schedules
  • Learn to tell a story w/out dialogue
  • Pitching your work every few weeks
  • Integration of larger projects (crew of 10, expand the team; add 1st AD, Prod. Designer)
  • Have a DP who’s not operating the camera
  • Boom operator who is not mixing
  • Scout
  • Location paperwork
  • Flash cards per position then quiz them

Creative vs. Technical

  • Teach students per role what the focus in the area is. Have a DP collaborate with the Director while you have a camera operator work on lighting, camera, DLR’s and with the sound team.
  • Have the Director work the creative aspect and a 1st Assistant Director work with the technical crew
  • Producer does the creative work while a Production Manager keeps the tech side flowing. Also have a Production Designer

Abby recommends doing an in depth larger scaled project like this at the end of the year. Don’t lose focus on IB requirements.
Have students watch The Breakfast Club to learn editing techniques.


NEXT STEPS

Next meeting was agreed upon for October 15th at 630pm. Tim will talk to River’s Edge for a meeting room that we can order food and drinks. Agenda will focus on Real World Connections/Activities within the classroom.

Christmas break meeting set for Saturday December 22nd at noon. Potluck style. Location TBD.


Jay: agreed to come into your classroom later this coming week.

Eric: agreed to come to your classroom and talk about owning their conversation. How to communicate their passion, their focus.

Michelle: agreed to help implement a plan for mock interviews. Relating their Story to a cover letter. Their pitch is their resume. Blog post can show progress and become their portfolio. Michelle will provide links and resources for student. Near the end of the year we will do the mock interviews and provide feedback.

Jonathan and Mike: are connecting on how they can focus their efforts on the skills and resources for a pathway to students that will funnel into Capital.

 

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