Video Production in an ELA Classroom?

   Video production was not very big in my school because the focus of instruction was on the core subjects.  Suzanne Miller and Mary McVee as well as multimodal based journals have discussed a way of incorporating video production into the ELA classroom.  It is a brilliant way of bringing in what students are familiar with and exposed to on a daily basis and having them use it to produce new understandings to literature.  Literature, or at least popular literature seems to have a way of making it onto the big screen in multiple interpretations so why not have student's do the same?  Modernizing literature can help to grasp student's attention and best of all, show that they understand at a higher level.
   
    Of course it is not enough to give students the equipment and tell them to have a go at it.  They need a bit of background knowledge on filming techniques, angles, storyboards, mood setting, and so on.  Studying film and television shows using the technical terms serves as a form of research that is beyond text and will be somewhat enjoyable to the students.  Studying or researching however is not enough, students need to learn the building blocks to video production such as writing out scripts and creating a storyboard.  A ton of planning goes into the process and incorporates more requirements from the curriculum than what I could imagine. 
 
    Miller and McVee discuss the technical terms used in the process of creating a video production in which students can benefit from.  Storyboarding seems to play a big part in the production since students must understand the text enough to come up with ways to portray certain moods through music, lighting, acting, and angles.  I definitely love this idea and would love to try to implement this in an ELA classroom.  There's more to it than meets the eye.