Blog #8 Final Video “iMET JOURNEY”

I mentioned in my last post that I put energy into breaking down the interviews into three separate groups of responses.  After I had completed this process the edited footage was already starting to tell the story of just who iMET graduate students are, what they do and why they do it, the challenges each faces, and the rewards of persistence in the program.   The story they had shared with me was so close to my own story that I chose to acknowledge the parallels in the final cut instead of directly linking them.  I added an opening narration and closing narration that interconnected their journey with my own.  This approach results in giving a voice to my own iMET journey while still celebrating cohort 13’s digital story.  Even though I had  started production before clarifying my story core it was the story core in the end that allowed me to organize the footage in a way the told my past and future iMET journey.  The completed project is posted below.