For the final multimedia project in the class, please choose two or more of the forms we have worked on during the semester and tell a fresh story.
You may work in teams or solo.
The more challenging the project, the higher your potential score. Try adding a form we haven't used in class, such as an interactive map. Or use one of the multimedia tools that you and the other groups presented to the class. The more the better.
You may combine podcasts, slideshows, audio slideshows, and videos.
Examples: a podcast, slideshow or video that plays out of an interactive map; or a video that combines still and moving pictures.
This project does not require a text component, but a text component can be one of the elements.
Monday, Dec. 8: Post an outline of your project on your blog. Include each team member's responsibilities.
Deadline:
8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 15: Project is due at the start of this class period, which is the time set aside for your final exams. The final projects will serve as your final exam. Each team will present its project.
Evaluation: The project is worth 200 points.
If you want credit for the project, post every element on your individual blog.
Narrative: 100 points
The project's components combine to tell an interesting story that engages the viewer. The more challenging the project, the higher the potential score.
Mechanics: 60 points
The presentation of the individual forms (video, audio, photos, text if applicable) approaches professional quality.
Format: 40 points
The project is posted correctly and meets the guidelines.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Video Project Assignment
Create a video package that runs 1:30 to 2 minutes, and a 400-word text to accompany it.
As with the audio slideshows, create a journalistic narrative with a beginning that introduces the subject, a middle, and an end.
Post the project on iReport.com, and embed the video on your blog.
Include sound. This can be natural sound or an interview, or both. It can also include your own narration; however, the project must include sound created outside of your group. Do not interview family members or significant others.
Any music needs to be royalty-free or used with permission.
The text and the video package should complement each other and not simply repeat what the other says. For instance, a team could put together a video about rehearsals for a play, and the text could review the play. The text component is not a description of how you carry out the assignment.
Intermediate deadline -- Wednesday, Nov. 19
-- Post the topic of your video project on your blog, along with the sound source or sources you plan to use, and each team member's assignment.
Final deadline Wednesday, Dec. 3:
-- Upload the project to iReport and embed the video on your blog, along with the 400-word text that accompanies it.
As with the audio slideshows, create a journalistic narrative with a beginning that introduces the subject, a middle, and an end.
Post the project on iReport.com, and embed the video on your blog.
Include sound. This can be natural sound or an interview, or both. It can also include your own narration; however, the project must include sound created outside of your group. Do not interview family members or significant others.
Any music needs to be royalty-free or used with permission.
The text and the video package should complement each other and not simply repeat what the other says. For instance, a team could put together a video about rehearsals for a play, and the text could review the play. The text component is not a description of how you carry out the assignment.
Intermediate deadline -- Wednesday, Nov. 19
-- Post the topic of your video project on your blog, along with the sound source or sources you plan to use, and each team member's assignment.
Final deadline Wednesday, Dec. 3:
-- Upload the project to iReport and embed the video on your blog, along with the 400-word text that accompanies it.
Monday, November 10, 2014
video in newspapers
This homework assignment is due on Wednesday, November 12.
Go online and find a newspaper -- other than the New York Times -- that produces video.
Check out its offerings and tell us what you think.
Is it professional-looking, or does it look amateurish?
Are the videos longer than an average television news report (1-2 minutes), or shorter?
Are the subjects interesting?
How do the offerings compare to what you found in iReport?
Go online and find a newspaper -- other than the New York Times -- that produces video.
Check out its offerings and tell us what you think.
Is it professional-looking, or does it look amateurish?
Are the videos longer than an average television news report (1-2 minutes), or shorter?
Are the subjects interesting?
How do the offerings compare to what you found in iReport?
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
iReport assignment
For Monday, Nov. 3, please go to iReport.com and do two things:
1. Sign up for an account;
2. Look around on the website and write a blog post telling us what you think about the site -- what you like, what you dislike, whether it is a good idea.
1. Sign up for an account;
2. Look around on the website and write a blog post telling us what you think about the site -- what you like, what you dislike, whether it is a good idea.
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Soundslides error message
From Mike Amento:
Open up the My Computer folder.
Inside this folder is a "C" Drive folder.
In this folder there is another folder named "Program Files (x86)"
Open this folder and find the Soundslides folder.
In the folder there is a program file named Soundslides.
Open that and the program will open without giving the error message.
Open up the My Computer folder.
Inside this folder is a "C" Drive folder.
In this folder there is another folder named "Program Files (x86)"
Open this folder and find the Soundslides folder.
In the folder there is a program file named Soundslides.
Open that and the program will open without giving the error message.
LSC's drowned drone flies again
After spending a long weekend in Library Pond, the drone seemed done for.
But four new circuit boards and motors later (and six months of procrastination)... it lives.
But four new circuit boards and motors later (and six months of procrastination)... it lives.
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