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>Subject: estimating video production time
>Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 14:41:23 -0700
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum   
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For anyone who has experience with videotaping short language  
learning vignettes with non-professional actors, we're trying to get  
a rough idea of how long we should plan for rehearsal and shooting  
(but not script writing or video editing).

This would be with a prosumer camcorder, either natural lighting or  
two or three simple lights, probably one mic, camera on a tripod with  
no movement (no pan, tilt, zoom).  Two actors interacting using a  
script.

In other words, to end up with, say, twenty half-minute videos (ten  
minutes of runtime), how long might that take to:

- Have the non-professional talent rehearse their lines (on their own  
time).

- Set up the audio/video gear, record the scenes (it is expected that  
multiple takes will be required to get a 'good' one), and put the  
gear away.

Or if you have a guesstimate for the ratio of production time to  
actual run time (e.g., ten to one, etc.), that would work as well.

The acting/delivery quality will obviously not be professional, and  
we're not looking for perfect, but reasonably good 'takes'.

Thanks

Bob Majors
University of Washington
Language Learning Center



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