23 thoughts on “Video Project”

1. » Video-composing Timeline/Stages
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   1. I have the draft for my au­dio com­pleted, and I’m still de­bat­ing what kind of vi­sual me­dia to use for my video.

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   Video Com­pos­ing
   » Links & Tools for Stage 2

   
   Pixlr
   → on­line photo ed­i­tor web­site (and mo­bile app)
   — edit, crop, com­pile, col­lage, add ef­fects (“pho­to­shop”), etc. im­age files be­fore up­load­ing to We­V­ideo

   
   
   Au­dac­ity
   (down­load | tu­to­ri­als)
   — edit audio/music files (e.g. song clip, voice record­ing) be­fore up­load­ing to We­V­ideo

   
   
   In­ter­net Archive​.org
   Au­dio  | Video | Im­age di­rec­to­ries
   — search­able & brows­able data­bases; free, un­li­censed / open-access con­tent; find high-quality ready­made files, down­load, then add to We­V­ideo me­dia li­brary
    
    
   → other sources or tools for project me­dia?
    

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      » re­minder: this is not a “media-production project,” don’t worry; rather, a rhetor­i­cal ex­plo­ration, de­cid­ing how to present nar­ra­tive.
      As a pub­lic genre (not aca­d­e­mic), the dig­i­tal sto­ry­telling video (3−5 min­utes) is a way to com­pose and pub­lish a nar­ra­tive con­sid­er­ing au­di­ence and style/language;
      and more­over to ex­plore the con­nec­tion of be­lief + story mode—
      as you nar­rate the story of some­one you know (not your­self),
      and con­vey their belief/value (with­out stat­ing di­rectly like a thesis/analysis).
       

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3. I have put to­gether what I would like to share with my au­di­ence about the story that I am retelling. I am work­ing on the me­dia and tech­nol­ogy side of it, ex­per­i­ment­ing with dif­fer­ent ways to get my point across in the most clear and pre­cise way. Af­ter ex­per­i­ment­ing with photo and video, I have found my niche and plan to next sync my voice with pho­tos and live record­ing in or­der to put my fi­nal project to­gether.

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4. So far, I have a script for the nar­ra­tion fin­ished al­though I might rewrite it (I’m pretty in­de­ci­sive about these things). I have gath­ered about half of the clips that I’m go­ing to use and have cho­sen a song to play in the back­ground. The video is just un­der five min­utes long.

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   1. As I said in my post, I haven’t done any­thing yet, but I think I’ll write my nar­ra­tive first as well. I’m cu­ri­ous how you in­tend to use video clips in your nar­ra­tive. Do they have au­dio or will you be speak­ing over the au­dio? I was think­ing of us­ing the murder-documentary for­mat we all love where one sim­ply zooms in and out of a sin­gle photo of the per­pe­tra­tor, nar­rat­ing their atroc­i­ties in a deep voice 😉

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5. I am telling the story of Erin Egan. As a kid she strug­gled with school with a learn­ing dis­abil­ity but kept try­ing and found a way to get through school all the way to Har­vard busi­ness school. I have fin­ished the sto­ry­board for my video in Pow­er­Point and I am fo­cus­ing on how Erin per­se­vered to over­come ad­ver­sity and I end with a mes­sage that makes the viewer want to ex­press them­selves and com­pels them to al­ways keep try­ing. My main con­cern mov­ing into the video part of the project thus far is mak­ing the video long enough for the re­quire­ment and also try­ing to not copy or em­u­late too many ideas from Erin’s per­sonal dig­i­tal nar­ra­tive. I am cur­rently work­ing on the cre­ative ideas be­hind my video and how I want to rep­re­sent each part of Erin’s story.

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   1. You’ve come quite a ways on your project, it sounds like, and it sounds like you mainly are look­ing for the vi­su­als that will make the story come to­gether. As a learn­ing dis­abil­ity isn’t usu­ally a vi­sual thing, go lit­eral where pos­si­ble, but ty­ing in vi­su­als that in­fer learn­ing with coloration/settings that sug­gest strug­gling or in­cor­rect­ness seems to be a good com­pro­mise.

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6. My story will be about my best friend’s Eric story about one of his ex­pe­ri­ence while he was in boot camp. The story in­volves an in­ci­dent about a drill sergeant kick­ing a small Asian lady of about 4 feet tall. So far, my script and out­line is done, but will still be re­vised. I plan on work­ing on the by the end of the day by mak­ing a col­lage of videos from YouTube to show im­agery and con­vey pathos with how I tell his story.

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   1. I think the story you are choos­ing to tell is a very in­ter­est­ing one. The way in which you choose to use video and sound could make this an ex­tremely in­ter­est­ing and mov­ing dig­i­tal story. I am ex­cited to see the fi­nal prod­uct.

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   2. I like this idea, and I’m cu­ri­ous to see what mo­ti­vated this drill sergeant. If you choose to use any mu­sic it could help to set the mood. Cul­tural un­der­tones may also help to ex­pose pathos in this story.

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7. The story I am telling is of my Grand­mother and her at­tempts to be­come a chem­i­cal en­gi­neer dur­ing the late 1950’s. De­spite ad­ver­sity due to sex­ist sen­ti­ments from her friends, fam­ily, and neigh­bors she even­tu­ally lands a job with the Atomic En­ergy Com­mis­sion. This was cou­pled with con­stant back­ground checks from the FBI which fur­ther dam­aged her re­la­tion­ship with her peers. I started a story board us­ing power point and have gath­ered im­ages of her school and the projects she worked on while work­ing with the AEC. I want to fo­cus on keep­ing the feel of the story con­sis­tent with the time pe­riod. This was dur­ing the “Red Scare” so I would like to in­cor­po­rate these sen­ti­ments per­haps with a pic­ture of the berlin wall or a clip of Mc­Carthy. I am also work­ing on a way to con­vey her be­lief in the im­por­tance of fol­low­ing your dream de­spite be­ing told it is not pos­si­ble (with­out di­rectly stat­ing this).

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   1. This sounds like it’s go­ing to be a won­der­ful story. I can’t wait to see it (if you al­low all of us to)! Here is a great 30-second clip with some golden nuggets of “anti com­mu­nist pro­pa­ganda” that could prove use­ful. https://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​R​u​6​G​P​M​P​D​Tig

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   2. I agree with Kyle. The way you painted a pic­ture for us about your story is al­ready awe­some. I re­ally find this story to be very in­ter­est­ing. I can’t wait to see your fi­nal video!

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   3. I think this will be a good story to tell, I’ve be very in­ter­ested to see what the end prod­uct is!! Good luck!

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8. Try­ing my best to re­cover from a nasty cold, Sto­ry­board­ing is done, record­ings are not but i’m try­ing to get my voice back so it doesn’t sound like a sick per­son talk­ing in my video.

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9. I have drafted out a num­ber of talk­ing points for my video but have yet to record them. I have also started a folder of im­ages and con­tinue to search for vi­su­als to up­load to we­v­ideo.

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   1. Just make sure you have you script and some sort of out­line to keep you on track 

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10. Sta­tus re­port: I’ve com­pleted the story board and have cho­sen my story, and now am writ­ing the nar­ra­tive to go along with the au­dio and vi­sual cues.

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11. Sadly, I haven’t ac­tu­ally done any­thing yet. I’ve had a lot of trou­ble un­der­stand­ing ex­actly what we’re sup­posed to do for this project, and I just re­ceived an email from the pro­fes­sor re­spond­ing to some of my ques­tions. At first I thought we were sup­posed to dis­cuss how some­one else’s story they told con­veyed their be­liefs, but I see now that that’s not the goal here. With­out any ex­am­ples I was sort of puz­zled. How­ever, I’m now try­ing to think of a story I know well that some­one has told me in per­son, hop­ing that it will serve me bet­ter than a video on­line. I get “analy­sis paral­y­sis” some­times, and I am pleased to say that I am cured and pre­pared to move for­ward with my project 

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12. I’m hav­ing a lit­tle trou­ble mak­ing a script. But I think the hard­est part of of get­ting it start­ing is hav­ing a good place to start. I have a lot of ideas of how I want my story to do but there has just been a lot of brain­storm­ing.

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    1. How do you feel now that you’ve thought on it for a bit? I’m find­ing it dif­fi­cult to think of non­fic­tion sto­ries that peo­ple have told me that use some of the tools in “De­signs of Mean­ing.” I’m re­ally in­trigued by Bal­ance, but none of the sto­ries I think of have any­thing that con­veys that. I’m very tempted to just come up with a story, even though non­fic­tion sto­ries are what we’re go­ing for here.

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