1 - Start ~4 mins
You already know how to work from a plan and a source log. Today is a working period: open your tool and assemble the sequence of your montage. By the end you should have the pieces in order on the canvas or timeline. Captions and full credits come next time, so do not polish those yet.
If your plan or files are missing, do not freeze. Write a one-line recovery plan (topic, three beats, which tool), grab one allowed file, and still assemble a short sequence. Something real beats a blank screen.
Before you move on: if your tool needs sign-in (Canva or Clipchamp), sign in first before you open files. Then open your plan, your source log and your saved files the class way, and have the tool your plan named ready.
2 - Assembled Checklist ~2 mins
Assembled means the four bullets on the board:
- your pieces are in the tool in the order your plan said
- each piece is roughly the right length or size for its place
- the sequence runs or reads through from start to finish without huge gaps or missing files
- you have not spent the period on captions, full credits or fancy polish
Open the tool your plan named. Only use files on your source log.
3 - Hands-on: Open and Place Your Sequence ~18 mins
This is build time. Follow these steps in order.
- Open your plan, your source log and the files you gathered, saved the class way.
- Open the tool your plan named (Canva, AudioMass, Clipchamp or Wick Editor). Sign in only if that tool needs it.
- Create or open your project file and give it a clear name that includes your own name or initials.
- Import or place the first pieces from your plan in the order you decided. Get the main order of pieces down from start to finish. Do not rearrange for style yet.
- Trim, crop or resize only where a piece is clearly too long, too short or the wrong shape for its place. Use skills you already practised in this unit.
- Test your sequence: play or preview once from the start and check it against the four assembled bullets on the board. On your plan (or a sticky note beside the keyboard), write one fault (gap, wrong order, overrun, or missing file) that you will fix next.
Stay inside copyright rules: only use files you logged as free to reuse, and keep your source log open so you can note any swap you make.
Stay on your own montage. Help a neighbour only if the teacher pairs you for a quick same-tool unblock, then return to your project.
4 - Your Turn: Reach Assembled ~10 mins
Use this stretch to get your montage to the stop point for today.
- Place any remaining planned pieces so the full sequence is present from start to end (or your three recovery beats if you are on a short plan).
- Test your sequence again: play from the start and check it against the four assembled bullets on the board. Fix the one fault you wrote on your plan or sticky note (a gap, a wrong order, a clip that overruns, a missing file).
- Preview once more. It should read as one continuous piece, even if rough.
- Save the project the class way before you leave the tool. Browser tabs on shared devices will not keep it for you.
Your sequence is assembled in order, it previews through against the board checklist, and the file is saved where the class keeps work. Captions, full on-screen credits and showcase polish wait for next time.
5 - Make Sense ~3 mins
Stop building. In one sentence, tell a partner what your montage is now able to show that it could not show when you only had a plan. Then name one craft choice you made while assembling (a crop, a cut, an order change, a layer, a trim) and what that choice did to how the piece reads.
The point of today was not a finished film or poster. It was turning a plan and licensed material into a real sequence you can caption and credit next. If your file is saved the class way and the main order is there, you are ready for that next step.
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