Today’s Plan:
- Just One Thing Project
- Promotional Video Project
- Documentation Project
- Open Broadcaster
Just One Thing Project
We’re almost done. We will take a few minutes at the beginning of class on Friday and complete any exit surveys.
Promotional Video Project
All of our material has been collected! It is now time to assemble our videos. Let’s talk about expectations:
- 30-45 seconds
- Some graphics/overlays (text on screen)
- Use of B-Roll
- Some background music (copyright free)
Some key information about the 4+1 MA program:
- The 4+1 MA program allows students to earn credit towards a Master’s degree while completing their BA
- Students will take 500 level courses (how many?) during their senior year and during the summer after their senior year. Three in their senior year and two in the summer following their senior year.
- Students will have the opportunity to earn a teaching assistantship and teach English 122 and/or 123 in their 5th year
- Students can apply for the 4+1 MA program in the fall or spring of their junior year
- Interested students should reach out to Dr. Cornish, the Director of Graduate Studies
- If this is not being mentioned already, perhaps stress that this is the only accelerated BA and MA in English on offer in Colorado?
I’ve reached out to Dr. Cornish and to our chair, Andreas Mueller, to see if there’s any other “must include” details. I think we want something in there about how this could benefit students who want to teach in a community college or pursue a PhD.
UDPATE: I’ve heard back from Dr Cornish and Dr Mueller.
Friday, I’m going to ask each group to develop and share a storyboard of their promotional video. In order to prepare for that, I want us to reverse engineer a storyboard for this video.
For homework, I’ll ask that each group produce 3 memos. The first memo concerns the interview with Dr. Cornish, the second memo concerns the interview with Rebecca Bolding, and the third memo concerns Dr. DeJardins’ class. Your memos should give a brief outline of available material in your video, specifying what might be the most useful for the promotional video. Email your memo to your group mates, CCing me into the message. These memos will prepare you for putting together the storyboard on Friday.
Adapt the Purdue OWL’s memo format for email; in an email, the heading info (to, from, date, subject) is handled for you. Remember to write specific, meaningful subject lines. Remember to bold-face headings and pay attention to spacing. Memo’s are meant to be concise and well-organized for easy skimming.
Thinking ahead, you will likely need to extract the audio from your video files in order to use b-roll. This is easy to do in Adobe Premiere.
Documentation Project
I haven’t forgotten about this project! I think we will be busy this week and the beginning of next week working on the Promotional project. My plan is for us to work on this one together on Wednesday. In preparation for that, I’ll ask you to submit some pre-writing to Canvas by next Wednesday–please include a rough draft of the numbered steps your project will require. In Wednesday’s class, we will work with Open Broadcaster to screencast those steps.
Homework
To review, there’s two new assignments in Canvas:
- Due Friday, April 6th: the video memo
- Due Wednesday, April 11th: the documentation draft
