SimonW
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I've been doing a number of jobs shooting in schools recently. This last week I covered both a brand new primary school and also a renovated secondary school. The focus was on the ICT (what was called IT in my day) and how it is used to help educate the kids. The jobs got me thinking about the future of people like us and our value due to both what I saw in these schools and also a comment from one of the teachers.
In the primary school all the kids, aged around 6-7 years old, were doing a lesson on animation. They were being taught about keyframes and other animation terminology. These were kids who were asking their teacher questions about frames per second and interpolation! One of them specifically asked if they needed their project settings to be set to 25fps because this was the standard for the UK! This wasn't a special school for gifted kids or anything. Just a normal primary school.
In the secondary school in one of the interviews one of the teachers said that he sees media being covered a lot more as part of the normal curriculum including specific lessons on using video cameras and equipment.
Now, I realise that not everyone is going to be a gifted natural at making video. But in a world where kids are brought up with the technical knowledge and taught how to use video cameras at the same time they are taught to read and write, surely many of these kids will grow up with a much more innate knowledge of this stuff? And if they do what effect will it have on the value of our work if every Tom, Dick, and Harry is taught at school how to compose, shoot and edit shots to a competent degree?
In the primary school all the kids, aged around 6-7 years old, were doing a lesson on animation. They were being taught about keyframes and other animation terminology. These were kids who were asking their teacher questions about frames per second and interpolation! One of them specifically asked if they needed their project settings to be set to 25fps because this was the standard for the UK! This wasn't a special school for gifted kids or anything. Just a normal primary school.
In the secondary school in one of the interviews one of the teachers said that he sees media being covered a lot more as part of the normal curriculum including specific lessons on using video cameras and equipment.
Now, I realise that not everyone is going to be a gifted natural at making video. But in a world where kids are brought up with the technical knowledge and taught how to use video cameras at the same time they are taught to read and write, surely many of these kids will grow up with a much more innate knowledge of this stuff? And if they do what effect will it have on the value of our work if every Tom, Dick, and Harry is taught at school how to compose, shoot and edit shots to a competent degree?