School Project - Opinions?

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    • School Project - Opinions?

      Recently came back to my school into something called 'Sixth Form' - for those who live in the UK, you'll know this is the alternative of college.

      I've signed up to be a 'prefect' at my school, and one of the few tasks we need to carry out over the academic year is teaching a lesson to the youngest year in the school.
      Of course, it's a supervised lesson, however I've been wanting to go into teaching myself - so I don't want to be lazy for this project.

      I will be basing the lesson on maths and logic - our school teaches up to Further Maths (the stepping stone between an A-Level and a Diploma) so this is something students need to be engaged in if they want to excel. For this lesson, I've prepared a simple yet creative video to get the ball rolling.

      I'd like your opinion on this video, and how it can be improved. To prevent people from declaring it as 'self-advertisement', I uploaded it to a channel which is not used other than to comment - I really couldn't care about if this video gets views or not, so please - no spam comments.

      Also, try not to be too harsh; I'm self-taught in video editing and I've only been doing it for a few weeks. And you don't need to pretend to *love* the video, just tell me what you think is good and what you found somewhat boring/uninteresting.

      The target audience is for 12-13 year olds, so it needs to be engaging for that year group. Let me know what you think guys - BRO-FIST!

      Video Link:
      The Judgment Box - YouTube

    • Honestly, for a school project its pretty much perfect/where it needs to be. If I were to give just personal suggestions; maybe some subtle, quiet instrumental in the background to keep the energy up. Also, with the voiceover, you did great. You didn't mumble and you projected, but I'd suggest is you use a pop-filter (or a higher quality one) because there were a few pops and mouth noises (sorry, former radio student).

      But again, for what it is now in its present form, you did a great job man.

    • This is perfect! It's simple, straightfoward, fun and interesting.
      Honestly, don't put music in the background. It might be distracting or some students might not respect your choice of music.
      What I would suggest is working on speaking in such a way that you sound engaged. If your voice-over makes you sound interested in the topic at hand, your class is most likely to enjoy it that much more.

      I never received fun lessons like this in any of my classes at that age. I think this will be engaging for 13-14 year-olds~ It'll definitely make your class think about what just happened.
      It kind of reminds me of something Numberphile would feature.

      Good luck~!

      *Brofist*
      :brofist:

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