Wikademia the Movie

Coming soon to a wiki theater near you !

This is a community-wide project to produce a promotional DVD that illustrates and describes Wikiversity.

Project description

Time frame: 15th August, 2009 (ready for the next Wikiversity Day)
format: downloadable video

Content:

1. Wikiversity:What is Wikiversity? / Wikiversity:Mission
2. Feature examples of original (only possible on) Wikiversity content
3. Collaborative nature: Appealling not only to potential students but to potential authors. Illustration of how the Wikiversity community functions to produce learning resources and activities.

Project news

• 23 August, 2006 - Project founded!
• 3 January, 2007 - proposed name for the video: "Wikiversity: Education in the new millennium"
• 30 December, 2007 - the goal to create a video until this date was not achieved :-(
• 21 August 2008 - new time frame for movie proposed: 15th August 2009 (the next Wikiversity Day)
• 23 August 2008 - contacted users interested in creating music/soundtrack: see here
• 24 August 2008 - introducing a slogan for the preparations on the Wikiversity movie: "Coming soon to a wiki theater near you !" (credits to User:Darklama)

Learning materials and learning projects

Wikiversity has adopted the "learning by doing" model for education. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. Learning materials and learning projects can be used by multiple departments. Cooperate with other departments that use the same learning resource.

appetizer

These are not the real, final videos - just use them for your imagination what it could look like:

• Wikiversity shorts - participants create short (15 to 60 seconds) promotional videos for Wikiversity
• /already existing movies about Wikiversity (for reusage or generating ideas ?)

now the details

• /Script - participants create the script for the movie
• /Interviews - participants film interviews with students at real universities after telling them about Wikiversity (giving a handout perhaps) and inform them it is free. Shock, disbelief, scepticism will ensue, but the reactions ought to be interesting. These could be made over time until the interviewees are all from Wikipedia and/or a mix or "bricks (and mortar)" students (we could just call them "bricks" for short).
• Machinima movies - tutorial - participants make a movie using Machinima
• /music - participants help make the sound track, including original music
• /multi-lingual - participants make the voice track and any text elements for all the Wikiversity project languages.
• ..

Learning materials and learning projects are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages in the main namespace) and start writing!

Related Content Development Projects

These divisions and departments have project interests and labs involving Wikiversity the Movie:

• Topic:Media Project Management
• Topic:Internet Audio and Video
• Topic:Multilingual Studies
• ...

See also

• Wikiversity Reports
• Collaborative video creation
• Film production

• Wikipedia:Machinima - A method for making the movie
• Wikibooks:Movie Making Manual

External links

• Digital Tipping Point- open source movie project

Participants

The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this project, you can list your name here (this can help small projects grow and the participants communicate better; for large projects a list of active participants is not needed).

• User:JWSchmidt - also interested in a version for podcasting (info about Wikinews podcasts)
• Cormaggio - this is a fantastic idea - there's so much potential..
• HappyCamper - yes!!
• guillom - I have (co-)written several theatre plays (some of which I have also directed and/or played in), so I'd be glad to take part in this project.
• jlguinn
• Mr Music play a note I can help with the soundtrack.
• personaljesus - Can help with writing, maybe some editing somehow.
• CQ Enrolled in this, this, this, this, and this.. started this, starting this... proposing this.
• Alex43223 Just getting started.
• Mac_Davis. Sweet, Wikiversity looks awesome. I've got the skills and software for the soundtrack for sure, and know people that could help me. I'm quite proficient in w:Garageband, have worked with w:ProTools, and am getting into w:Logic Pro. I am a frequent video and text blogger as well, so I might be able to help where video or video software is needed. I've got iMovie HD and Final Cut. Glad to help anywhere were needed!
• Symode09. I've won various media awards and am a media student at school. I use sony vegas, sometime iMivie HD and, know all the major Adobe pachages (ie. photoshop, fireworks, flash, dreamweaver) I'm really good at image manipulation, writing script and editing

• MusicWeaver. I may be available to help with the soundtrack and sound effects. I am a pianist/composer with a bachelor's in music and have produced several CD's of original music. I have all the resources to produce professional-sounding music and sound effects in common audio formats (MP3, .wav, etc.) synchronized with the video. I have a small recording studio at home, plus programs like Finale, MusicTime, Reason, Studio 8, and CoolEdit Pro. I have some experience with video editing, but audio is my area of expertise.
• Erkan Yilmaz - my motivation: When do people realize that Wikiversity is not like other Wikimedia projects ?

Dormant participants

• CyclePat: "Baccalauréat ès arts spécialisé approfondi en musique avec mineure en administration des affaire". I've studied in french. Je suis aussi connaissant des logiciels MIDI tel que Finale 2008, Garitan, EWQL choirs, symphony, etc. I will help out only upon direct request on my Wikipedia user page. (p.s.: Good luck with the coordination)(I Hope you give us more than 15 days to make the final music scores!)