Today’s Plan:
- Poll Results (Dates)
- Drafts
- Reviewing the Multimedia Project
Dates
A whopping 56% of people elected to have the multimedia projects be due on Monday, April 23rd. This means we will watch videos on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of next week and will not meet during exam week.
There’s a few options for turning the project in. First, you can upload a .mp4 file to Canvas. Second, you can upload a YouTube link to Canvas. Remember–if you are going to use YouTube, to make sure you haven’t used copyright protected music.
The final papers will be due Tuesday, May st.
Drafts
A few things:
- Robinson video / education
- Subheadings
- Retrieved from…
- For future reference: APA and past tense
Reviewing the Multimedia Project
Expectations:
- You distill your paper into a 5 minute multimedia video. This should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 1/2 pages, double-spaced, of text.
- Based on the Pecha Kucha format, your video should contain 30 images, each on the screen for 10 seconds. You may also shoot live video of yourself talking, or of “B-Roll,” just be sure to keep shots down to 10 seconds.
- Your video should contain background music.
- Your video should have some text on the screen (not necessarily on every slide). I don’t want to see a lot of bullets (only bullet things that should be bulleted, like lists)
Earlier, I asked you to take 5 pictures that you could use in your project. I want to clarify that you don’t have to use them. I just want to make sure you have experience taking pictures and thinking about composition (lighting, angle, rule of thirds, etc).
Technologies:
- There’s a number of ways to put this project together. I recommend using a lightweight video editor, such as OpenShot. Here’s the first in a series of YouTube videos for working with OpenShot. Here is a second tutorial that offers a workaround for adding audio in Audacity.
- Use a microphone to record your audio–any microphone is better than using a computer’s internal mic. ALWAYS CHECK SOUND QUALITY AND VOLUME LEVEL BEFORE YOU RECORD ALL YOUR AUDIO.
- Saving files in a video editor is trickier than it might look. In the video above, you see the files get “imported” into the video editor. But that’s not what is really happening–the program is NOT copying the files. Rather, it is creating a path to the files. What this means: whenever you are working on a video file, you have to save all the files you used to make the video in the same place as the video editor file. IN THE SAME PLACE. Save everything together. EVERYTHING TOGETHER.
- I’ve put together a presentation for other instructors on how to do this with PowerPoint, but I wouldn’t recommend this unless you are a sophisticated PowerPoint user. I think it would be faster to learn how to do this with OpenShot that to try and force PowerPoint to do something it doesn’t want to do
Wednesday
We will have a guest instructor on Wednesday. We’ll meet in the Ross computer lab, as usually, and work on generating the script for your video (I think).
