Monday, January 14, 2008

Ex Phys MMedia (Body Systems)

Topics:
A) Skeletal, muscular, neural (group of 3)
B) Respiratory, pulmonary, hormonal, neural (group of 4)
Each group will produce an in depth video news report/documentary that relates their topics to an aspect of exercise. More specifically, each group must choose one (or a few) of the different exercise aspects below:
·Specific to training for a specific sport,·Space flight,·Underwater diving/chamber,·Training at altitude,Obesity (childhood or adult),·A diabetic (or other disease/malfunction) training,·Rehabilitation after complete muscle atrophy,·Increase in environmental temperature,·Asthma,·Ultra-endurance,·Someone taking anabolic steroids &/or Human Growth Hormone (HGH),·Other (must be approved by instructor)
Content (vocabulary and concepts) that must be included is on the attached sheet. News reports must be between 5-15 minutes in length. Each group will put together their report in Adobe Premier. Each video/news report must have the following criteria:
·At least 6 video clips of you reporting throughout the report (two or three per person in the group),·At least one video clip of you interviewing someone else (someone else may pretend to be a “professional”),·At least one self-created labeled diagram/picture that you narrate over and explain,·At least 3 video clips of demonstration/sports/activity that relates to the specific concept(s),·At least 1 musical component,·At least one summary/report/reference to a study that was published between 2005-present,·Incorporation of the “green screen”
The entire class will then put together a full-length DVD that contains each of the group’s reports. Your target audience may that of a sports team, advanced biology class, CNN or NPR science report, physical therapy office, or other.