The following assignment will be Part I of three parts for your final exam. You are to create a biographical documentary on someone's life, anyone, your friend, your brother, sister, mom, dad, aunt, cousins, grandpa. For an example of what I expect, please watch this. Note how the person being interviewed does all of the speaking. The interviewers ask specific and open-ended questions that allow the subject to speak freely about their life or about their work. As the person speaks freely, you with your trusty tape-recorder captures clearly each word. Please read the captioned summaries at the end of the video or at the beginning of the video. The summaries will help you understand what kinds of questions to ask, what information is relevant to honoring another human being.
Follow these steps:
1. Write a short list of people you want to create a storied documentary on, like the one(s) presented in the video. The intention and the result of the video will be honoring. So pick someone you'd like to honor.
2. Understand that the New York Times story videos are quite good. Unless you use the same equipment that they have at their disposal, you may not create a video of equal quality. Don't be discouraged. You can still create a very good video. Here are some questions you will want to ask:
a. What do you do for a living?
b. How long have you been doing this?
c. Can you share briefly with me what your work involves?
d. What do you love about your work?
e. What are the challenges of your work?
f. When did you start this work?
g. Why did you get into it? Who influenced you?
h. Is there anything in particular that you'd like the world to know about your work or about how you came to do this work?
i. What role does your family play in your work, in your business?
Be Aware
Practice asking those questions. Pay attention to your tone. Does your tone sound like your audience owes you something? Are you asking "What do you love about your work?" with genuine interest in your tone or as though you are satisfying an assignment that is taking you away from Facebook?
Microphone
Since you are taking STILL photographs and not videos, you will need a tape-recorder.
Allow your subject to speak as freely as possible. It would be really cool if you could get the person to talk about their job at their job. The best people for this would be business owners, people who own their own business.
Pictures
Take still photos. Take moving pictures. You don't need both. But you can use both. Note the New York Times examples: they are all still photographs strung together with smooth transitions that gives the impression of being a slow moving picture.
Once you've got your pictures, use Camtasia to produce the documentary. Download, if you haven't already, its one-month, free trial. It's free . . . for 30 days. Once you upload the pictures and video, then you can edit it.
Voice-over
Make sure that your subject's voice is heard as the narration over the video of their pictures and video.
Any questions? If you have questions, please come to me and ask me. Otherwise, I cannot address your concerns or worries and you cannot get answers to problems that arise in this project. Thank you.
Follow these steps:
1. Write a short list of people you want to create a storied documentary on, like the one(s) presented in the video. The intention and the result of the video will be honoring. So pick someone you'd like to honor.
2. Understand that the New York Times story videos are quite good. Unless you use the same equipment that they have at their disposal, you may not create a video of equal quality. Don't be discouraged. You can still create a very good video. Here are some questions you will want to ask:
a. What do you do for a living?
b. How long have you been doing this?
c. Can you share briefly with me what your work involves?
d. What do you love about your work?
e. What are the challenges of your work?
f. When did you start this work?
g. Why did you get into it? Who influenced you?
h. Is there anything in particular that you'd like the world to know about your work or about how you came to do this work?
i. What role does your family play in your work, in your business?
Be Aware
Practice asking those questions. Pay attention to your tone. Does your tone sound like your audience owes you something? Are you asking "What do you love about your work?" with genuine interest in your tone or as though you are satisfying an assignment that is taking you away from Facebook?
Microphone
Since you are taking STILL photographs and not videos, you will need a tape-recorder.
Allow your subject to speak as freely as possible. It would be really cool if you could get the person to talk about their job at their job. The best people for this would be business owners, people who own their own business.
Pictures
Take still photos. Take moving pictures. You don't need both. But you can use both. Note the New York Times examples: they are all still photographs strung together with smooth transitions that gives the impression of being a slow moving picture.
Once you've got your pictures, use Camtasia to produce the documentary. Download, if you haven't already, its one-month, free trial. It's free . . . for 30 days. Once you upload the pictures and video, then you can edit it.
Voice-over
Make sure that your subject's voice is heard as the narration over the video of their pictures and video.
Any questions? If you have questions, please come to me and ask me. Otherwise, I cannot address your concerns or worries and you cannot get answers to problems that arise in this project. Thank you.
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