Week 7 Agenda

1. Share remaining videos (If you've not already uploaded your video to Google Video or YouTube and embedded it in your blog, do so before the end of class next week).

A couple of you have not had a chance to share your audio yet. As we are still awaiting server space, please just burn the audio to a CD (label it!) and hand it in that way. See "project deadlines" post for more about what's due and when/why/how.

2. Other items of note available at your blogs?

3. Discuss Watkins (Kairos video, "Words are the Ultimate Abstraction"), Barton and Huot (MC), Alexander (MC), Church and Powell (MC), Journet et. al (http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/Digital_Mirrors/) [especially "In Medias Response" at http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/Digital_Mirrors/ryan_trauman_home_01.htm ] , and "Writing with Video--Art 199" (in campus news and the interviews with former students and rubric for grading video projects and current home for "Writing with Video" at UIUC)

3. Capture video in groups of 3-4. Spend no more than 45 minutes wondering campus (or elsewhere!) and capturing 10-15 second clips of "texts" in the world (on campus or elsewhere). Try not to develop any theme yet. Think broadly about what's worth capturing. Be silly. Be observant. Think creatively. What do you see, hear, and experience in your walk about your chosen location? Project adapted from http://writingwithvideo.net/module01.htm.

4. When you return, transfer the footage as separate clips to your desktop. "After reviewing each clip, name the clip using one of the grammatical terms above (noun, verb, adjective/adverb)."

Import these clips into a MovieMaker project file. "Then create at least [one] 'video sentences' using your collection. Each sentence should use between 3 and 9 clips. No one sentence should be longer than thirty seconds.

"These pieces can be fun, serious, literal, straightforward, or mysterious. It is required, however, that you have a good time in the process. . . .

"Purpose: Become comfortable using a camcorder; develop a habit of always looking and listening--paying attention--to what's going on around you; get some experience using [MovieMaker], start thinking of video as a language; experience how editing (choosing content, sequence, and pacing) creates interest and meaning."

5. Upload to YouTube or Google Video, embed in your blog, and SHARE!

6. Consider borrowing a Flipcamera for the week and capturing short video clips relevant to your final project. In class next time, create 2-3 additional "video sentences" that you can use directly in/for your final project.