My final video project takes Ohler’s recommendations of defining a story core and then mapping the story before shooting and throws it out the window. With permission I changed my EDTE 286 project from a story about my culminating proposal and turned it into an event documentary. With no idea of what to expect on the night of the graduate student poster presentations, I gathered my video equipment and went to go shoot footage of the projects and iMET students.
As I captured cohort 13’s comments about their experience in iMET over the last two years I began to see parallels in my own experience. On the way home from the event I started defining the story core and story map. Using my cellphone, I voice recorded my ideas on the way home. My video would be a story about the universal challenges and rewards of participating in the iMET program.
The map I produce over the next couple of days was based on Joseph Cambell’s “The Hero’s Journey” archetype. Below is a planning sheet I filled out while trying to conceptualize how the story might play out.
When I started roughing out a story board on PowerPoint the choices I made were driven by the idea that I would cut back and forth between the student interviews and my own experiences.
Building the story board revealed to me the difficulty of this approach and so I decided to cut the interviews into three distinct sets of responses that related who the cohort participates were and what they had been doing, the challenges and setbacks they had faced, and finally what the rewards of the process had been. I thought I would figure out how to cut my experiences in later. What actually happened was so more exciting and I will share the results in my next blog # 8.
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