Ohler's Five Phases of Media Production

 In chapter 11, Ohler discussed the first of the five phases of his media production process.  In my prior response, I commented on the use of peer pitching to assist students with developing their story core.  My experience with this approach at our face to face session reinforced my feelings.  Receiving feedback from my classmates assisted me in determining where my transformation would be taking place in the story.

Chapter 12 continues with the remaining four phases of the media production process.  Phase II includes the steps involved in preproduction such as developing a media list and obtaining the necessary media.  This seems like a logical step in the creation of digital stories.  One of Ohler's suggestions that would be beneficial in any classroom is "Find out who the software and hardware experts are in your classroom or workshop and feel free to call on them" (Ohler, Kindle Edition 1960 of 2900).  Just tonight, I utilized the expertise of our iMET cohort through our Facebook page attempting to troubleshoot an issue I was having with captions in my video.  It is very helpful to have a network of assistance rather than having to immediately contact a teacher or professor.  

The author suggests including learning the basics of iMovie or Movie Maker in either the Prephase I or in the third phase of production.  Having spent four hours attempting to add captions to my video tonight, I would attempt to include this step as early as possible.

The remaining steps of the production process seem logical to me and would work well in creating media projects in the classroom.  Ohler stresses the importance of including proper credits as well as music, transitions and effects during the postproduction phase.