ENGLISH 307

American Consumption (iMovie)

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Production Schedule

Working with others on your project team (most likely a subset of the "medium group," if there are several different projects being created in this medium"), you will create a Production Schedule for your project.

Steps:

An Internet source that discusses production in the medium: 5 Steps To Great Video Production.
Using the information from this source, along with the criteria from your rubric, create a list (on your wiki page) of everything you will have to do in order to achieve an "A" on the project. See "To Do List" below.
Agree upon what a midterm "draft" of the project will be (ie., what the project will look like when it is halfway finished) and get my approval on this. If you are working with any form of digital storytelling (video production or podcasting), plan to be finished with shooting and/or recording by this date (i.e., by midterm, you should have all the raw footage of your piece completed and have only editing and post-production left to do).
Plan to have that "draft" completed by the beginning of class on April 21. This week you will also plan to meet with the technology trainer to follow up on the project, anticipate next steps, and possibly revise your plans. Add this meeting (and scheduling it) to your "To Do" list.
Assign tasks to particular people in the group in order to meet that April 21 deadline, using the "Person Responsible" line, as shown in the Production Schedule below. Make sure that the workload is evenly distributed amongst all group members. Assign these tasks using the "Production Schedule" below.
Using your list from #2, figure out what tasks remain after April 21 to complete the project at the "A" level by May 5. Assign tasks to individuals, using the same principles you used for #5. (If you are doing a video or a podcast, you will publish your piece to the appropriate web community ON MAY 5 -- or as shortly thereafter as possible --, but ALL production will be complete by this date.
Revise your Project Proposal accordingly and plan to submit a final version of it on the wiki, along with your group's Production Schedule (see below for where you should attach the revised proposal -- use the "Attach File" icon on the toolbar above to upload the document).

TO DO LIST (See #2 above)

Create a Garage Band soundtrack
Gather appropriate images
Take Tera's iMovie workshop
Create a storyboard
Write the text for my movie
Put movie together
Edit iMovie
Complete weekly evaluations
Complete project proposal

MIDTERM DRAFT

I plan to have the iMovie roughly put together. I will have chosen all images and have the garageband music created.

The text will be written. I will put together all of these things and later on I will edit and revise as necessary.

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

M March 31 (PREPRODUCTION)

To do: Schedule group a) training and b) a "midterm"/follow-up meeting with Tera Doty-Blance (type dates of meetings below).

Person responsible: _Jaime___________________

Monday 1:30

M April 7 (PREPRODUCTION/PRODUCTION)

Deadline: Project Proposal, Rubric, Production Schedule, and pre-filled Peer Evaluation forms

M April 14 (PRODUCTION)

Deadline: Have met with trainer. Gather images. Start writing text.

M April 21 (PRODUCTION/POSTPRODUCTION)

Deadline: Draft of Project due

M April 28 (POSTPRODUCTION)

M May 5 (PUBLISH)

Deadline: Final draft due

Project Proposal:

Content: United States oil consumption
Purpose: To present the fact that America is a product of oil, and that America is handling the oil situation primitively. To question Americans’ views on oil, and show how oil’s glorification will only bring down the country once oil runs out.
Audience: I choose to communicate a more interpretive message that will be better understood by adults.
Format: The best way to get my message across would be thorough iMovie because videos and music evoke emotions. This issue is frequently ignored. People know the facts and the situation yet do nothing to change the situation. Emotionally reaching the viewer through an iMovie will force them to make changes. Blogs or wikis would not be affective because evoked dialogue is too open and my topic is not questionable.
Production:
1. Context:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_theory

http://www.mnforsustain.org/oil_peaking_of_world_oil_production_exec_summary.htm

http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/quickfacts/quickoil.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/oil.html

Contribution: I will show the viewer the many things that we use oil for. We have built up a country out of oil and therefore oil is controlling us. I will show them that America is not smart in relying on oil because it is a non-renewable resource, and that that our country will regress if its oil use is not curbed.
Conversation and Connectivity: I am emailing my iMovie to a family friend who writes for an oil awareness column in The New York Times. This friend says that she is always looking for opinions on the oil issue from America’s youth. I will also post my video on youtube.com and hopefully viewers will post their thoughts below the video. I will tag the video as hummer or SUV etc. so that the people causing a lot of harm will see the message. I will also tag it under oil consumption for those interested in the issue. Additionally, I will create a Facebook group on Oil in America and post my video in it. Through this, America’s youth will see what will become of their future if they do not make changes. The majority of Facebook users are obtaining a college degree and will generally have large salaries in the future. These are the people who can make or break the situation. With money comes responsibility to not purchase large SUVs and consider purchasing hybrid cars or solar panels. My Facebook group will have a brief overlay of the situation for those who are not familiar with the statistics. The video will be posted on it. Users can blog about the situation below. Through Facebook I can invite all of my friends into the group, and then my friends can invite their friends. Through this, if my ideas become popular, they will spread across America’s youth.
Content: My message will transition between two different ideas. The first is how America uses oil through the view of its primitive ideas in that America is not thinking and just using what we have. Americans consume more oil than any other country in the world. In a sense, America is still a tribe, struggling to maintain life. I show America on this smaller scale to depict America’s regression once the oil runs out. Oil is America’s God because without it, survival is more difficult and the whole American way of life will be changed. Illustrating oil as a God dramatizes its use and is perhaps a different view on the situation that will better get across to the viewer. The second idea is the idea of peak oil and I question the viewers what will become of America after the 40 years of oil that we have left. Hopefully, the way that I present this idea will frighten the viewer. However, the main central message throughout the movie is that America is tribal in the sense that it primitively depends on something nonrenewable. This is a huge issue because it affects everyone. If we do not curb our oil consumption then our country will have an energy crisis.
Complexity: My video must reach the viewers emotionally. I will add shocking pictures as well as appropriate music. I will use pictures from creativecommons.com, and create music in garage band. The video will be emotional, shocking, and frightening.

Jaime: This looks terrific, and it is such an important message. The only thing, I’d like to do some more thinking about is “connectivity”: as Rheingold says, we can make the message, but it’s only effective if it reaches the appropriate audience. Without making efforts toward that end, you’re leaving it up to young people who are uniformed about the issue to seek out your video and watch it. Doesn’t seem very likely, does it? How could you increase the likelihood that your intended audience would see it? Could you “advertise” it somehow? Link it (from websites or to similar films/sites)? These are just some ideas for your “distribution plan.” Remember, the end is not the product in itself, but communicating with the right audience to MAKE that change. But, that said, this is a well-considered and thoughtful project and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Dr. Sarver

PS. When you’re through revising this, I’d like to see you post the text of this onto the wiki, like Garrett did with his blog proposal. Thx!

Weekly Peer Reflection

Pre-fill "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms

Once you are finished with the Production Schedule, copy and paste from it in order to pre-fill the weekly "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms and attach the completed, pre-filled form beneath the appropriate date below.

Pre-fill it by following these directions:

Open this form Eval Form
Type your group's name in "Group" blank on the first line
Type "4/7/08" in the "Date of Meeting/Assessment" blank
Type the names of individual group members and the tasks assigned to them to be completed by April 7 on the appropriate blanks on the form (cut and paste from the Production Schedule)
Save this form and attach it in the blank beneath April 7 below, so that individual group members can individually dowload and complete the form before class on April 7
Repeat steps 1-5 for April 14-May 5

Be sure to divide this inputting among group members so that the work is equitably divided amongst group members. DUE: March 31

WEEKLY: Complete the "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms

Each week, each group member will download one copy of that week's form, evaluate each group member's performance (including him or herself) BEFORE class begins, and submit the confidential form to me at the beginning of class. Forms not completed before class will not be accepted, and the indivdiual will receive "0" points for that week's assessment.

If individual tasks have changed since the form was first pre-filled, be sure to note these changes on the wiki no later than Monday at 8am for that day's evaluation.