A description of the assignment is as follows:
“Working in a group of 3-4, students will create a 7-9-minute multi-media
text that explores, depicts, and makes an argument about the history of a
controversy.
The objective of this assignment is three-fold:
1. to integrate the rhetorical skills you have been developing thus far in the
course, especially with regard to the variety of rhetorical modes available in a
digital context
2.to work as a team researching, designing, and presenting an informative text to
the class
3.to develop basic facility with a variety of multi-media tools”
So basically we were randomly put into groups of 4 and had to make a video about an issue on the Penn State campus. Since one of my other group members and I had both previously written papers on rape culture, we decided that we would like to make our public controversy video about that rape culture at Penn State. We hoped to make people more aware of the issue of rape culture at Penn State, by showing how uninformed the campus is through interviews and polls.
Believe it or not, this video is one of my proudest accomplishments. In the course of this assignment, I had to organize my team, regulate time management skills, learn how to conduct interviews, learn how to use video editing software on macs, perfect my voice acting skills, as well as learn how to discuss a growing issue that is often overlooked on a college campus.
Sure, the pictures were a little too fast in the beginning and there were some party shots in the beginning where my artistic side got a little ahead of me, but overall I think it's a great piece of work. As it was a group project, it was not entirely my vision, meaning I had to let go of some ideas just as much as the other group members, but I have never felt so satisfied at the completion of an assignment.
My favorite parts include the "ums" section (1:23), and the powerful ending.
I love the "ums" because of how the music builds up and just stops to a bunch of people having no idea as to what the answer is to a simple vocabulary question. It was really interesting when we conducted interviews to see what actual students had to think, not just anonymous polls we posted on the web. I'm also proud of the emotional effect the music has on the ending. It makes the issue seem pressingly urgent, and when I read the headline on one of the collegian's articles, it's clear that this is a serious issue. The screen just fades out after displaying the words " It's time to wakeup" with total silence.
“Working in a group of 3-4, students will create a 7-9-minute multi-media
text that explores, depicts, and makes an argument about the history of a
controversy.
The objective of this assignment is three-fold:
1. to integrate the rhetorical skills you have been developing thus far in the
course, especially with regard to the variety of rhetorical modes available in a
digital context
2.to work as a team researching, designing, and presenting an informative text to
the class
3.to develop basic facility with a variety of multi-media tools”
So basically we were randomly put into groups of 4 and had to make a video about an issue on the Penn State campus. Since one of my other group members and I had both previously written papers on rape culture, we decided that we would like to make our public controversy video about that rape culture at Penn State. We hoped to make people more aware of the issue of rape culture at Penn State, by showing how uninformed the campus is through interviews and polls.
Believe it or not, this video is one of my proudest accomplishments. In the course of this assignment, I had to organize my team, regulate time management skills, learn how to conduct interviews, learn how to use video editing software on macs, perfect my voice acting skills, as well as learn how to discuss a growing issue that is often overlooked on a college campus.
Sure, the pictures were a little too fast in the beginning and there were some party shots in the beginning where my artistic side got a little ahead of me, but overall I think it's a great piece of work. As it was a group project, it was not entirely my vision, meaning I had to let go of some ideas just as much as the other group members, but I have never felt so satisfied at the completion of an assignment.
My favorite parts include the "ums" section (1:23), and the powerful ending.
I love the "ums" because of how the music builds up and just stops to a bunch of people having no idea as to what the answer is to a simple vocabulary question. It was really interesting when we conducted interviews to see what actual students had to think, not just anonymous polls we posted on the web. I'm also proud of the emotional effect the music has on the ending. It makes the issue seem pressingly urgent, and when I read the headline on one of the collegian's articles, it's clear that this is a serious issue. The screen just fades out after displaying the words " It's time to wakeup" with total silence.
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