Assignment 3

Assignment 3: Concept in 60

Assignment Overview:  Create a 60-second video text that illustrates a concept (e.g., progress, loss, comfort, rigor).  Your video text must meet the following requirements:

  • Your video text must run 60 seconds–no more, no less—including title screen and credits.
  •  Your video text must be conceptual (for example, a video on “school” should be about the concept of school, not simply about a specific school).
  •  Your video text must take a critical, reflective, and/or interpretive approach to its subject matter.
  •  You must strip your video of all actual, original audio.  You may layer audio in your project as long as you avoid all literal video/audio matching.  You may also choose to render this Concept in 60 with no audio at all, or there may be sections with only audio footage but no video footage.
  •  Your video text must be titled “________ in 60.”  There must be a title screen somewhere in your video text.  You must also give yourself credit as the video artist/composer somewhere in the video text.
  •  You must secure permissions for all materials used in your project.  You much give credit for all materials used in your project.

 

Outcomes.

  • Students will demonstrate skills in audio and video recording and editing to create a rhetorically effective text.
  • Students will talk in a generally knowledgeable way about video texts, how to compose them, and how they are structured in terms of compositional elements.
  • Students will author 4 texts that help them articulate and explore metaphor and visual argumentation and demonstrate a consideration of purpose, information, and audience:

1.) A written proposal for your video

2.) A video that presents their concept in 60 seconds.

3.) A script or transcription or storyboard of their video.

4.)  An extended self-assessment and reflection on their video.

  • Students will respect others’ intellectual property by thoroughly documenting the source of materials they do not create themselves and by obtaining permission to use such materials in their text.

View Evaluation Criteria for Concept in 60 Video Here

 

Task #1: Conceptualizing and Proposing

 

Watch the Concept in 60 videos in the Project Gallery.

Watch the following RadioLab videos for inspiration.

Inspiration: Concept in 60

  • Everynone. “Radiolab Presents Symmetry.” Youtube. RadioLab, 2011. Web.
  • Everynone. “Radiolab and NPR Present Words.” Youtube. RadioLab, 2010. Web.
  • Everynone. “Radiolab and NPR Present Parabolas.” Youtube. Radiolab, 2009. Web.

 

Produce a one-page (not including the storyboard), single-spaced proposal that describes the Concept in 60 video you plan to complete.  Your writing should be descriptive, detailed, and reflective yet formal.  You should include why you are interested in working on this concept, and you should account for preparatory work necessary to be successful and the challenges you expect to face.

Your proposal should include the primary requirements of the Concept in 60 project and how you plan to achieve them.  Follow the model presented below:

1.  Introduce your concept by asking a primary research question and/or a series of smaller, more narrowly focused research questions.  These questions can help articulate why you are interested in working on a particular concept;

2.  Provide a frame or lens through which you can examine and analyze data in rich media forms that you have found (using an archive, for example) or collected;

3. Explain the kinds of media you will need to collect and how you plan to collect them;

4.  Create a storyboard that maps out how you plan to put your video together;

5.  Explain the challenges you expect to face.

Due:  Friday, 11/2

Format:  Written paper in MLA format.

 

Task #2:  Recording and Editing 

Collect and create media to use in composing your video.  Import your materials into iMovie and use it, as well as GarageBand, to compose your video.  Review the following constraints of the assignment:

  • Your video text must run 60 seconds–no more, no less—including title screen and credits.
  •  Your video text must be conceptual (for example, a video on “school” should be about the concept of school, not simply about a specific school).
  •  Your video text must take a critical, reflective, and/or interpretive approach to its subject matter.
  •  You must strip your video of all actual, original audio.  You may layer audio in your project as long as you avoid all literal video/audio matching.  You may also choose to render this Concept in 60 with no audio at all, or there may be sections with only audio footage but no video footage.
  •  Your video text must be titled “________ in 60.”  There must be a title screen somewhere in your video text.  You must also give yourself credit as the video artist/composer somewhere in the video text.
  •  You must secure permissions for all materials used in your project.  You much give credit for all materials used in your project.

Due: Wed, 11/14

Format:  60 sec video saved as both a .mov and .mv4 file.  Bring your files in on your thumb drive.

 

Task #3: Production Writing

Create a alphabetic representation of your Concept in 60 video.  The written text can be in the form of a script, transcript or description.

 

Due: Wed, 11/14

Format: Written paper in MLA format.

 

 

 

 

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