Week 11: Day 1 and 2

My target audience for my composition is City Tech freshmen. My main point hasn’t changed from my Unit 2 composition; I still aim to educate and inform my audience about the history of skincare and its parallelism to modern-day approaches. My chosen genre that I think will work the best for my project is a video essay which will include interviews and research from my article. I will also include videos of people making these “products” and using them as they would in the past. I want to make this project observable and visual, therefore, I’ll be doing voiceovers and including minimum text because that tends to “bore” the viewer. To work with this new technology I will need to learn video formatting and editing. This can be easily done through online tutorials and trial and error. I will also need to condense the information from my article to make sure the main points are highlighted. Since my audiences are most likely young adults/adults, I will cross-study and examine the best approach to editing my video. As expected, I will also need to study documentaries of people who are familiar to these approaches. Perhaps, contacting an Egyptologist may help a great deal.

Schedule:
Day 1: Conduct interviews with people of three perspectives (expert: local dermatologist, an elder: my grandmother, a high school student: Yousef Aydin) and gather information. Begin formatting and organizing the layout of the video.
Day 2: Find perspectives and statements from Egyptologists. Learn how to make an intelligible and engaging video essay. I will also work on the artist statement.
Day 3: Gather and compile information from my article, include pictures, include the interview, and conduct additional research if needed. Make a draft for the video.
Day 4: Edit and embellish the video appropriately for the audience.