Educational Videos

Rebecca - So far I have written the lyrics and Aaron has written the music on guitar for our educational video on Gay Rights entitled "Who's To Say." It is coming along great and I have filmed short clips of couples holding hands, expressing their love, etc to dub over the music video to interest my audience even moreso. Today, Aaron, Xiaosiqi, and I collaborated to help each other on our projects and we starting filming us singing the song in a music room. We will have to meet again to get a cleaner version of it, but some of the clips are very usable.

Aaron - Aaron has been researching his topic more in depth to find facts on the history of blues to present in a video fashion. He will be playing clips from original blues songs and will show pictures of blues artists. His voice will dub over it as he explains his topic more thoroughly. It is coming along well but much research is needed.

Xiaosiqi - His video, on second language learners, will film American speakers attempting to speak and understand a unique paragraph in several different languages. We started working on this after class on Thursday and were able to get a few students to read the paragraph aloud. This demonstrates the difficulty in speaking a language not native to your own, while creating a comedic relief to the film. The video clip will end featuring Xiaosiqi explaining why is it so difficult for foreigners to speak english (i.e. syntax, grammar, symbols..) and will give a summary of his findings in the research he did. It is coming along well.

All videos will be recorded using iMovie on Macs to ensure only the best of quality.

project

we've been working on finding videos to use for the project and finding hte right one. I have started sketching the painting i'm going to do.

Metamorphosis of Cultures: It's Very Kafkaesque

Alex- Right now I am putting together the presentation structure and organization. I will gather personal photos and videos this weekend in order to avoid any copyright issues. Overall, I should have it ready for class time next Tuesday.

Caitlin- At this time, I'm working on my website which is set up similar to a magazine and will have 3-4 articles with pictures and possibly a short video about historic American mansions and the importance of preservation. Currently, I'm working on my second piece and gathering all my pictures up, taking copyright issues and fair use into consideration.

Andrea: I finally came to a solution regarding the medium for my project. I have decided to mainly appeal to the audience via audio with a podcast. It may or may not be accompanied with a video with images and/or text. As I have already completed the bulk of the work required for it, I should be finished by next week.

Government restrictions and Music

Dillon's assignment is about Government restrictions within society. The purpose is to tell people about the crazy restrictions that the government is putting on society and how it is affecting society. He is using a powerpoint to help display his topic more effectively. He is going to use a video in his powerpoint that explains restrictions on society. He meets all the necessary criteria that is needed to have this video within his powerpoint.

Clint's multimodal project is about drums and their impact on music. The purpose is to tell people about drums and their ability to transform music and any given song. He is using a website named Vimeo to show to the class a pre-recorded video of him talking about the instrument. He is going to use the video to effectively explain how drums work and their impacts on the music industry and music throughout history. He meets all the requirements for the project and his video is going to be nice and professional quality.

Raising Awareness on Societal Issues

Kate's Project:

Kate's website focuses on how to spot cults and if cults are trying to recruit you or your family. Because of this, it has a targeted audience or a general audience as well and is made available to all people. Her images are not copy righted. She is still working on the look of the website and deleting some of the text because there is a lot. 

Nicole's Project: 

Nicole's brochure focuses on getting the word out or persuading readers of the brochure to donate money to help find a cure for ALS. The design of the brochure is coming along, but still not fully done. She is not found all the photos she wants to use because copyrighted photos are causing problems, but she does have one picture and it is attributed correctly and she could use it. She has never made a brochure before so she is still trying to figure out the whole format aspect. Other than that she has a good start on it. 

Tyler's Project:

Tyler is planning on doing a Pecha Kucha presentation. For now, he plans on introducing his theme and then showing the class the Pecha Kucha which will identify obesity as a problem in America. He said the greatest difficulty with this project is going to be finding photos he can use for the Pecha Kucha without interfering with Copy Right rules.

The Way People Think: Mindsets in Modern Society

Mary-I have done a lot of work on my project. I decided to do a website, and I’m really liking how it’s turning out. I have pictures already on there, all of which are my own so I don’t have to worry about copyright issues. I have also added lots information that will be good for my site. The only thing I have left to do is make a couple links.

Nick-I have an outline of my project done as well as most of the information done. I am doing a hand illustrated magazine/publication of sorts. I still have to add some detail to the final project and make sure everything is working properly. 

Myriah-I have made my website and have started adding information. I’m still working on it, adding pictures and checking the grammar and everything like that. My goal is to make it a very informative website, so I’m spending a lot of time making sure everything is correct and accurate.

The Modern Day Brain Child

Christine-I have set up my own blog on Wordpress.com called Cookies of My Brain and I have posted about three times to get used to the format. I have added links to my sidebar and my next couple of posts will be about those links and how they are important to me. At the end of this project I will make a five minute video explaining how to set up and maintain a blog and also how to add links to your favorite pages.
Samantha-I have started my website and am currently looking for links to add. I have two pages currently and may add more. I am having trouble finding pictures of children due to the parental consent.