Grade Weight: 15%
Peer Review Deadline: Monday, June 14th
Open Lab Hours: Thursday, June 10th 12-1:00
Due Date/Presentation Day: Thursday, June 17th
Medium: Digital story combining audio narration, music, images, video, and effects.
Description: For your third project you will work with a small group of classmates to compose a 5-7 minute community/advocacy story that combines some audio narrative with music, images, video and (possibly) video narration, and effects to support your advocacy story.
Requirements: your story must be about 5 minutes long and it cannot be longer than 7 minutes, so compose your entire story audio carefully and choose a narrative script, images, music, video clips, and effects that will help you tell a rich and interesting story. You must have a draft ready for peer review on Monday, June 14th. . You are also required to submit an analytical cover letter detailing and explaining the work you did on this project, the decisions you made, and the changes you might make to this work in future. Your analytical cover letter will also include a description of the individual contributions members of your group made to this project. One person from your group will be responsible for uploading this digital story to their YouTube page, providing credit in YouTube to each of the group's contributing members, and link to that YouTube page from our class Wiki. Your group's community/advocacy story must be original, a real story about an individual or group in the local community or about a single issue in the local community. This story must be composed entirely by your group, and your images and music cannot be copyright protected: all must be your own productions (your photos, music you created), within the public domain, or covered in some way under other fair use guidelines (remember our class discussion about this).
Special Challenges to Consider: you will be interviewing and (possibly) recording people in the local community, remember your ROHA protocol training and let them tell the story without your intervention. Remember too that you will need to provide them with an informed consent form that accurately represents how you will use their contributions to this story, where the video will appear, and any potential risks to them as a result of their participation. You will need to figure out how/when your group will compile the research (interviews, video, audio, images, etc) into a unified story. I will provide class time for some of the editing work your group will need to do, but you will also need to meet outside of class to complete the research required for this project.