Video+Projects


 * =VIDEOS= || =WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE?= ||
 * ==The Story== || Your video(s) will tell a story that causes viewers to understand the topic, current research and events.

All videos may be dramatic, first person, or in third person and all videos must have an outsourced clip.

//**Understand the Topic**// - A good video in this area will define: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How. Each video must standalone unless it is part of a series.

//**How do I make a movie that helps people understand the topic?**// You can take the role of a news reporter with clips from other newscasts or YouTube as part of your work, or even a drama that incorporates the explanation of the trend. Think of your work as being on the history channel or a news report -- could it stand-alone and would it explain the topic?

**//Current Research and Events//** - A good video in this area will briefly define the trend and then highlight current research and events in this area in a way that does not copy what has already been done. It should be YOUR unique perspective.

**//How do I make a movie on this topic?//** - A digital story based on the concept of story could focus on 'A Day in the life' of a person or organization as part of your topic. It could also be based on a personal story or stories on a theme.

//** Consider these guiding questions: **//
 * What are the most important points that a person needs to understand about your trend?
 * Can you find a good story related to your topic? Can you create a good story related to your topic? (It can be a drama with a script that you have written.)
 * What is the important message or feeling being told in the story?
 * Can you imagine yourself in the story? How does it feel? What would you be doing and saying?
 * How can you create this story using multimedia to help the audience to understand the concepts better?
 * How important is the multimedia? How important is the narration?

The best videos are ones that can be understood by someone who has little or no experience and technology. If they can understand your topic then you have accomplished your mission. Be careful about using terms without defining them. ||
 * ==Innovation== || In Daniel H. Pink's book [|A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future], Pink says:

"Design is a high-concept aptitude that is difficult to outsource and automate - and that increasingly confers a competitive advantage in business." (Pink 86)

"To be a designer is to be an agent of change," says Barbara Chandler Allen from Philadelphia's Charter High School for Architecture and Design. (Pink 86)

"The wealth of nations and the well being of individuals now depend on having artists in the room." (Pink 86)

For this topic you will innovate, invent, or predict what will happen in areas related to your trend. All videos may be dramatic, first person, or in third person and all videos must have an outsourced clip.

//**How do I create a video on my topic?**// - Your assignment is to design and innovate as it relates to your topic. Although each individual creates their own video, each of you must include some video from a partner in another classroom. Your videos may be related designs and innovations or completely different, it is up to you.

Your job is to innovate, to envision the future... to invent a better way... to design what tomorrow will look like based upon this trend shaping our world today.

//** Consider these guiding questions: **// If you find current organizations involved that you wish to share as part of your video, please discuss this with your teacher before writing it into your script.
 * What is the future direction of your topic, or something related to your topic?
 * How will this thing or practice change the way we do everyday things in our lives (eg the way the telephone changed the way we communicate, and now the mobile phone changes the way we socialize and interact)
 * What are the features of this new innovative design?
 * How will it be used by people around the world? For pleasure, meaning, beauty?
 * In what areas? eg health, education, business, government?
 * Can it be used to promote cultural understanding? ||
 * ==Social Entrepreneurship== || Make a difference! How can what you've learned be used to help improve our world? Focus on a cause that is important to you. Share how technology can be harnessed to make a difference in our world or share about what a group is already doing and how people can join in using social media or other technology.

//** What is a Social Entrepreneur? **// A social entrepreneur is defined as: // "someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change." a social entrepreneur identifies social problems on a large scale. // []

//** Sample Topics: **//
 * Health issues
 * Environmental issues
 * Science issues
 * Other global issues
 * How non-profits can use your trends (i.e. how colleges could use cell phones for safety or a prediction of how a certain trend could be evolve to be useful -- kids sharing observations on climate change, for example.)

//**Your Audience**// - You may choose to target teens, adults, children, as long as you DEFINE your audience.

//**Your Multimedia**// - You may be creative in your multimedia. It could be a:
 * Documentary -narration over pictures.
 * Dramatization - You can enact your idea in a scenario, either real or fictitious
 * Interviews - Ask people involved with the trend their ideas, or their thoughts on an idea, or ask people about the trend to show that it is a problem.
 * A story - The story of a person and how this particular technology is involved
 * Just about any other film/multimedia genre. ||
 * ** Empathy - A First Person Narrative ** || //** Empathizing with People Involved - **// A good video in this area will share the perspectives of multiple people. You are to create a compelling story that uses narrative. Telling a story can heighten our understanding of something. "Based on facts but delivered with empathy and skill, a story can impart a 'complex idea in a more memorable and meaningful way" (Pink 103).

"Stories are easy to remember - because in many ways, stories are how we remember" **(Pink 101)**


 * "What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in context and to deliver them with emotional impact" (Pink 103) **


 * "...stories can provide - context enriched by emotion, a deeper understanding of how we fit in and why that matters" (Pink 115) **


 * "Empathy is the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's position and to instuit what that person is feeling" (Pink 159) **

//How do I make a movie on this topic?// **- A digital story based on the concept of story and empathy could focus on 'A Day in the life' of a person or organization as part of your topic. It could also be based on a personal story or stories on a theme.**

// Consider these guiding questions: **//
 * Can you find a good story related to your topic? Can you create a good story related to your topic? (It can be a drama with a script that you have written.)
 * What is the important message or feeling being told in the story?
 * Can you imagine yourself in the story? How does it feel? What would you be doing and saying?
 * How can you create this story using multimedia to help the audience to understand the concepts better?
 * How important is the multimedia? How important is the narration?

Your story should create empathy for your character(s) that give insight into the topic you are explaining. || But perfecting those relationships - important though it is - is not the ultimate goal of their efforts. What conductors and composers desire - what separates the long remembered from the quickly forgotten - is the ability to marshal these relationships into a whole whose magnificence exceeds the sum of its parts. So it is with the high-concept aptitude of Symphony. The boundary crosser, the inventor, and the metaphor maker all understand the importance of relationships. But the Conceptual Age also demands the ability to grasp the relationships between relationships. This meta-ability goes by many names - systems thinking, gestalt thinking, holistic thinking. I prefer to think of it simply as seeing the big picture." (p140-141, Dan Pink A Whole New Mind)
 * ==A Symphony of Group Stories== || A good video in this area will share the perspectives of groups of people. "In any symphony, the composer and the conductor have a variety of responsibilities. They must make sure that the brass horns work in synch with the woodwinds, that the percussion instruments

//** How do I make a movie on this topic? **// - A digital story based on the concept of symphony could focus on stories of groups of people in different places working together to become more than they are or would be individually. How do these massive groups of people work together to do things? Tell the story of how different groups interact or how group behavior happens (i.e. flash mobs, open source software creation, open education)

//** Consider these guiding questions: **//
 * Can you find a good story related to your topic? Can you create a good story related to your topic? (It can be a drama with a script that you have written.)
 * What is the important message or feeling being told in the story? ||
 * ==How We Live and Play== || In this video, you will show how

".... play is becoming an important part of work, business and personal well-being, it's importance manifesting itself in three ways: games, humor and joyfulness" (Pink 188).

What does a video/multimedia/story look like?
 * Try to think of how work and leisure are blended and how flexible working hours have created possibilities for personal outlets
 * How can games or humor be used in your topic? Is there a problem you are solving by using humor?
 * Can your story be written as a 'play' that is 'funny' but at the same time tells a story? Will it be funny in other cultures as well? Does this matter? ||