For those instructors who might be camera shy, but still want students to see their instructor on screen within the course content. This AI generated narrator was created in Canva using the HeyGen avatar creator. Simply upload a still image of yourself and write a text script for the avatar to follow. Click generate and you’re done.
UCreate and Lightboard Studio User Guides!
We now have DIY Guides available for the UCreate Studio and Lightboard Studio managed by Media Production in the Education Building.
These guides include:
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- Quick start information
- Step-by-step setup instructions
- Best-practices tips and tricks
- Media design considerations and pre-planning tips
- As well as post-production workflows and delivery strategies for your media files.
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Let us introduce you to these DIY recording facilities available to faculty and staff FREE of charge and available to book at media_production@usask.ca.
Media Production for Curriculum
Media Production’s professional and experienced staff of instructional designers, producers and technicians can provide support and consultation on a wide variety media projects related to teaching and learning. Producing media-based curriculum for online, flipped, or blended courses can leverages the expertise of colleagues, external partners, and industry professionals for use term after term.
Let Media Production help you create professional quality media that will enhance the quality of your program. Contact media_production@usask.ca for a consult or to discuss how you can access allocated funding for your project.
Course Trailers
Similar to a movie trailer, creating a course trailer is a great way to orient students to the upcoming active learning opportunities in your class and invite their participation at the start of the term. Think of your course trailer as a call to action! invite students to join your class as though it was an interactive event. Pose questions of inquiry (are you interested in…) and incite action (then this course is for you!).
Contact media_production@usask.ca to discuss how we can help produce a course trailer with you and incite active student participation.
360 Virtual Tours
Using 360 Camera technology Media Production can help develop interactive 360 tours of lab spaces, facilities, teaching spaces, and more with H5P. Embedded in web pages, Canvas courses, e-books and more these interactive tours can give your audience an immersive and interactive virtual experience.
Contact media_production@usask.ca today to see how we can collaborate on creating virtual tours of your unique and specialized spaces!
Studio A Workshops!
New hands-on workshops are now available from the media professionals in Media Production for Studio A, home to the UCreate Studio and the Lightboard Studio.
These DIY Recording Studios are managed by Media Production and available, free of charge, to Faculty and Staff looking for a professional setting to record high quality media for teaching and learning, research, and more!
Visit https://sites.usask.ca/mediadesign/support-and-training/ for more information or contact media_production@usask.ca to find out more or to book a group workshop for you and your staff.
Generative AI in Virtual Production
Expanding the boarders of a scene to create a new and enhance setting is now easier than ever with the help of generative AI features in programs such as Adobe Photoshop. See how we were able to create a futuristic view of the USask Campus by creating “matte paintings” with the Generative AI features in Photoshop and then compositing them into a video.
Contact media_production@usask.ca to discuss how AI can enhance your next media production.
Studio A AR Info
Designing small Augmented Reality (AR) information markers that “stick” in a specific space. We designed an info AR for Studio A that sticks to a horizontal plane and I made another one for my office door that sticks to a vertical plane.
Connect with meda_production@usask.ca to discuss how we can support designing this type of media with you.
Large Scale Augmented Reality in Studio B
Testing some large scale augmented reality models in Studio B this week. If you want to interact with a large scale 3D model as part of your teaching and learning activities we have the space for you!
Studio B is a 29’X48′ sound stage featuring a full sized green screen with grid lighting, a white cyclorama, various paper backdrops as well as black and blue curtains, a large projection screen and HD projector and more. This multi-functional media production space is used for a variety of productions and is a perfect space to spread out if you need a some room to stretch your teaching and learning legs.
Contact media_production@usask.ca to chat about how we can help you achieve this technique.
Lightboard Luminance Keying!
Taking the Lightboard Studio to the next level! We’ve been doing some experimenting in the lightboard studio and adding slides and animations into the recordings using a luminance key.
This means an instructor can annotate, label, or otherwise draw on top of images and animations that appear on the lightboard surface.
Contact media_production@usask.ca to learn more or to book some time to play with this technique in studio free of charge.