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.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
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.
Blog #7 “Breaking All the Rules” [video 4]
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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