Final Project Proposal

For my final project I am thinking about using either my photo essay or video to create an interactive, multimedia digital story. I am leaning more towards my photo essay and taking the content I already have for that and adding an interactive aspect to it to get the reader/viewer more involved. I thought about possibly creating a html code that would take you to another website that would give an overview or description of the places that I talked about. I will probably be working alone on this project because it would be hard for someone else to work with another persons photos or projects. I hope what I am thinking turns out to actually be pretty cool and easier to do than I think especially if I decide to do something with the html code. 

Final Video Reflection

I came up with the idea too film a car ride to a place that I knew of , film the walk to the place, and either take some still pictures and incorporate them or do a 360 view. Obviously I edited them to make them shorter so it wouldn't bore the audience. So I originally wanted to do a local spot here in Windber but it just so happened that my boyfriend and I went on an adventure to West Virginia and along the way home I asked if we could stop at Cooper's Rock State Forest along highway 68 so we did and it was totally worth it and my video come out even better.

The songs I chose to use for the background music compliments the video because the first song "All Eyes On Us" goes with the fact that my boyfriend and I like to travel so the "ride or die" is like us since we go on different adventures together. The second song "Take Back Home Girl" also goes with the fact about traveling/riding together to places and these two songs just really fit.

In all honesty I just used the video on my phone and used a voice recording app to record those two songs in a row to play then I downloaded another app to create the video. I selected the video's and photo's that I wanted and made them shorter and added text to the still photo's and also made the duration longer so they would disappear so fast. The hardest part was picking the songs for the background and getting the text to stay on for the entire duration of the photo.

This way of storytelling is unique because the video with the music tells a story without having to have any text, like my video you can see that is an adventure to somewhere unique and one of a kind. Each spot that we go to has its own specific story to tell and I hope that continues until I can't anymore. 

I learned a lot from this creation process actually and it honestly made me what to make more videos of some of the places that we have traveled too and I thought this was the most exciting project of them all and hope my classmates and viewers think so as well.

Storyboard

My storyboard is a brief overview about what my video is going to be on and its a little rough around the edges but it shows us leaving the house, driving on the road to get there, walking on the trial, some wildlife that we see along the way, and then us driving back, and us back where we started. 

This is my storyboard that I created on a free website, the video trailer I have on my Instagram page is definitely a lot better then the storyboard but I am excited for everyone to see the final project and hope you like it.  

Videos

In the poem called "Poems for Rent" the subject of this poem is about real estate and renting. The form of this seems to be pieced together because the photos were taken by someone and some of the photos were re-created with text inserted in. The audio kind of ties the video together so that you are not just looking at pictures and text. I like the fact that they took and used their own photos which worked very well but I am not sure why they go back and fourth with the pictures from the left to right. A tip that I picked up was to use your own material and not "borrow" and photos.

In the poem called "Everything Sleeps but the Night" the subject of this poem is to show that there are still things going on during the night that people don't see. The form of this piece is interesting because it really doesn't have a story it just looking like a video that was put together. The audio kind of ties the video together because there is no text just pictures. I like the fact that they chose something different that is not as common which worked very well but I am curious why they didn't want to include any text. A tip that I picked up was that you don't have to always use text to tie in with the text.






In the poem called "First Grade Activist" the subject of this poem is about someone's friend that is being teased for being a redhead. The form of this piece is interesting because it reminds you of a story with the text on the left and the video playing on the right that goes along. The audio kind of ties the video together because there it is like an audio book/story. I like the fact that they chose  to do a story theme which worked very well but the text does go fast for reader's to read. A tip that I picked up was that you should do a trial run first before you publish so you can see or adjust the text so that the reader has time to read the words.