Milestones & Assessment

Treatment Plan for Student Video Projects (.pdf)
A treatment plan will help you and your students focus on how they will put together their media composition.

Video Project Proposal – The Pitch (.pdf)
The Pitch can be used instead of or just before the Treatment plan. It is an abbreviated version of the Treatment plan and is completed by the students then presented and discussed in class.

Storyboarding (.pdf)/a>
Creating a storyboard will help your students to visualize and arrange the key shots for their media composition.

Video Project Rubric (website)
Video project rubric created by Joan Vandervelde in the School of Education, University of Wisconsin – Stout. Feel free to use it or modify it to meet your own assessment needs.

Digital Video Project Rubric (.pdf)
Used to assess high school video projects but is an excellent source to create your own rubric for media compositions.

Assessment Rubric for Digital Memoir Video Project from Dartmouth Writing 3 course (.pdf)
Created in collaboration by the instructor and students. It was based upon the rubric by Joan Vandervelde in the School of Education, University of Wisconsin – Stout (listed above).

Multimedia Documentary Film Project Rubric from Dartmouth First-Year Seminar course (.pdf)
Created in collaboration by the instructor and students.

Sample Rubric from Dartmouth Writing 5 course (.pdf)
Created by the instructor for a writing course media composition project.