Video Making: Production pedagogy, embodied inquiry, and ‘thinking through making’
This production extends your work with making ideation decks to using those decks to support you in the process of making a video work. Your job is to utilize your own ideation decks (created in class) and/or utilize attached cards decks (see below) to generate your own “prompt” or point of departure for making. Then make! The video can be short 2-5 minutes (or longer, if you wish, depending on genre or if you are having fun). If on the short side, you will have to concentrate on the skills/techniques and artistic choices within the shorter run time. As discussed in the reading, the length of the video will depend upon the making process and genre, and can’t be determined in advance (see the readings).
Expectations: The video work must be grounded in the deck (on the success criteria and creative prompt) you create for yourself and the video should demonstrate the genre, artistic, or technical challenges you presented to yourself, too. Note: the messy creative process of making may modify your original intention and/or take you in different directions and through other competences – and that is more than okay, it is inevitable (see Doerr-Stevens, Tim Ingold doc on creativity and thinking through making and thinking as doing; improvisational wayfinding, etc).
Please avoid using the built-in editor templates or social media templates (tik tok, canva, etc, and if these are used, the most you can receive is a D).
If you create a short clip using these tools to, for example, reflect on how they fit into media landscapes, learning, society, that is okay – since they are objects of analysis.
Feel free to use your own cards or the cards from today (see links below).
Suggestion: If you select a genre (e.g., documentary, etc) see if you can find the time (if possible) to actively watch/analyze a ‘good model’ and break down what the film-makers are doing (and add elements to your deck).
ideation deck genre / themes & oblique prompts
ideation deck video technique cards
Example deck from a previous student project: He had more cards than I would have used, so this is just ONE model, not a template. Remember, the prompt you create is a point of departure, and inevitably the process of inquiry and making will impact the ‘final’ product.,
Write a very short meta-reflection (200-300 words; informal) that reflects on what/how you learned through process, use of decks for creating your own success criteria/expectations, etc, – plus – any final take away points for you on any aspect of the decks and making process. How did your experience speak to the readings? Or how did your experience challenge those themes, etc?
Please post your video on youtube (note there is a ‘link-only’ privacy option, if you do not want to make your video fully public).
Due by Week 9 (if you need 1 on 1 technical support via zoom, etc, just let me know)!
PLEASE IGNORE ANY LINKS TO OTHER PRODUCTIONS BELOW