Multi Media Creativity Project
Project Description: For your finalproject you must create a multi-media presentation based on one of the following themes, or ideas.
1) Create a personal digital story you would like to give as a gift to someone who has been influential in your life.
2) Create a personal digital story through which you honor the life someone important to you, or who has inspired you.
3) Create a digital story based on an object or any memorabilia that is significant to you, your family, or your community.
4) Create a multi-media presentation, or digital story on the subject of creativity, or on one or two of the "meta-ideas" Jonas Lehrer discusses in the final chapter of his book Imagination: How Creativity Works.
5) Create a multi-media presentation n experimental, artistic, of a poetic expression, or surreal affect.
6) Create a digital story/presentation on a social or community issue of importance to you, your family, or community.
Project Requirements: The project should run for 4:00 to 5:00 minutes. You must include the following components in your project.
1) A 300 to 400 word, narration/voice over that will tell the story or present the ideas of your chosen subject.
2)20 to 25 images to supplement the voiceover. These can be directly related to the subject, or they can serve as figurative (metaphorical, analogical, emotive representations, etc. . . .) expressions of ideas related to your subject.
3) In addition to the voiceover, audio, narration associated with your presentation, you should also use additional audio tracks as part of your presentation. These tracks could include music, recordings of natural sounds seasons, recordings of events, machinery, etc.
Project Tools: You will need the following tools to produce your multi-media project.
1) Film video editing software or applications
2) Audio recording software or applications
3) Photos, still images, or film cuts to develop visual components of your presentation.
4) Related resources:
A. For film editing you can use Final Cut, imovie, Adobe Premiere, or other video editing software you might be familiar with. If you don't have any of those,or if you don't know how to use them, you can go to We Video to develop and edit your project. The We Video website will holds instructions for creating a free account as well as tutorials and information about using their application to build digital media projects.
B. You may gather images and photos from your own personal collections as well as from a variety of online sources.
For example, Creative Commons offers a number of free downloadable images and video you can use to develop ideas for your presentation.
Note: Creative Commons also holds audio tracks you can import for use in your presentation .
C. Most computers, tablets and phones have free audio software and apps for recording voice and music. Garage Band is available on most apple computers, but you can download, free audio software from Audacity, if you don't have software or applications already installed on your computer.
Additional Information: Multi-media creativity projects are due on August 9th.
1) I will create a D2l dropbox for final projects, but if the project files are too big to upload there, I will also provide instructions on how you can send files through MSU File Depot. Two additional drop boxes will be associated with this project, as a way of keeping you on task, so to speak. Each of those drop boxes will be worth 15% of the final project total.
2) The first drop box will be for your 300 to 400 word digital story/narrative/voiceover. That due date for the project text drop box is July 21st.
3) The second drop box will be for your project images. The due date for the project images drop box is July 28th.
Please contact me, if you have any questions.