Create a documentary that tells a story through interviews with several different people. The story can be real or made up. It can be the same story told with different view points, or a story prompt where the subjects create their own endings.
What is your biggest fear? Is it spiders… heights… snakes… needles? Have you ever thought about what your fear might think of you? Write a short story of a terrifying event from the perspective of your fear. You never know… they might be just as scared as you are!
For this assignment, your task is to use the green screen in the production studio in the HCC to pretend you are a reporter telling the updated news during the apocalpse. Have fun and use the green screen to put funny pictures or even scary images in your newscast! Put your newscast on youtube and send us the link!
Let your peers get to know you a little bit better! Ask friends in your class, or even outside of your class, to send you questions. Answer them in a video!
This media assignment has two parts. First, edit a song to sound like it is playing from another room. The audio should sound muffled and the bass should be prominent. Here is an example of this effect and here is a tutorial on how to do this. The second part of this assignment is to write a weirdly specific description of your song. Here is an example of a description.
What if plants and animals could all communicate without humans understanding? Write either about a conversation between two non-human living things or through the point of view of one non-human witnessing people go about their daily lives. How would a really old tree feel about having always been in the same place but everything change around it? What would a squirrel feel towards pesky humans who always scare them away? Be creative, go deep or go humorous, have fun!
Create a book trailer for either one of your favorite books (it can be fictional or non-fictional or any other genre!) or for a book you personally would like to/want to write in the future! For example, make a trailer (like a movie trailer) for a book such as Catcher in the Rye! Use pictures, clips from other movies (while paying attention to copyright), videos that you film yourself, and more! Share the video to YouTube so everyone can watch!
Don’t give away any spoilers! But, you can use quotes from the book, ratings of the book from The New York Times or The Washington Post! Have fun with it!
Things are crazy out there, man. Decoder rings, missing hats, dinosuars? Who knows where this will all end. Brave researcher Vanessa Locke has some questions for all of us. Download her video and choose at least 5 of her questions to answer by splicing your own video answers/responses in. Be honest and brave!
You have learned about the importance of pasuing, emphasising key words, linking, and inotnation in presentations. As aprt of your Sepaking Project #3, you will be presenting a TED Talk. This assignment will help you work on your presentation skills so that you can deliver your content professionally just like the TED Talk presenter ion this video. Watch the video below and pay attention to the pauses, how certain words have been emphasized, the linking, and the intonation pattern of the sentences. Then use the script and record the first 2 paragraphs.
Auditory Illusions is when you hear the lyrics where there are none because there is only piano. Create your own auditory illusion by downloading a song with heavy vocals and convert it to a MIDI file. Then put the MIDI file into MIDI Trails and adjust some of the settings. Use a screencasting software to record your video and audio. Upload your final product to YouTube. Here is an example.
