During today’s class, begin writing a memo about your plan of action for filming and editing your YouTube video. Where do you plan to film? Who will be helping you? How will you be editing? We will reserve some time during our next class for me to help in any way needed to move your projects forward. Post your execution memo as a comment to this blog entry before our next class.

During today’s class, we will start with your beginning of class writing assignment, discuss the reading, and then turn our attention to your scripts and storyboards for Project 2. With the remaining class time, you can plan the execution of your video (filming, editing, etc.) and record it in a brief memo.

To begin, spend the first ten minutes of class writing a summary memo of your reading from Chapter 6, “Characters, Dialogue, and Emotion.” This chapter is packed with information, which we will review together momentarily. For now, memorialize what you took away from the chapter as being important or useful information. Did you think of examples from your own experience that connect to the different topics in the chapter? Make a note of these in your summary and tell us about them during discussion and lecture.

Before class on Monday, Feb. 29, write your YouTube video script and draw your storyboard. Remember, the script should capture setting, action, edits, and dialog, and your storyboard should depict the video shots you need to capture to create your video. By thinking through your digital video story with the aid of these documents, it will give you a solid plan for capturing and editing your video, which saves you time and energy later in the process. Put another way, measure twice and cut once.

Bring five printed copies of your script and storyboard to class on Monday, Feb. 29, and copy-and-paste your script (text) into a comment to this blog post. Save the PDF of your storyboard for your completed project in your portfolio.

Copy-and-paste your Project 2 Details memo as a comment to this blog post. Refer to the Project 2 assignment sheet for more information about writing your story concept and pitch. Use this document to begin writing your script.

During the first ten minutes of class, write and post a summary memo of Chapter 5 from Miller’s Digital Storytelling as a comment to this blog entry. Consider how you can connect some of the topics discussed about storytelling tools and your observation/experience of them in contemporary media. Can you name some examples?

Before our next class, complete your planning memo for Project 2 (available under the Projects menu above) and copy-and-paste it into a comment made to this blog post. Instructions are included below.

Let’s use the first ten minutes of class today to write summary memos on your reading for today’s class: Miller’s Digital Storytelling, Chapter 4, Interactivity and Its Effects. As you write your summary of the reading, you should note examples of interactivity that you have experienced or know about that we can discuss when we discuss the chapter. Post your memo as a comment to this blog entry.

Tasting Success: An Intern’s Journey is a look back at the stages of acquiring an internship and incurring the first taste of success.

— Jodieann

(1/12) Last May, before the spring semester came to an end, my biggest concern was securing an internship in writing for the summer.

— Jodieann

(2/12) Where should I intern, I thought. First mission was to find a company whose values aligned with mine and one that would challenge me.

— Jodieann

(3/12)I searched on @indeed and found over 50 internships for writing.I found an internship at a creative agency in the financial services.

— Jodieann

(4/12) I said, what the heck and applied for the internship knowing I had no prior financial literacy but was gladly willing to learn.

— Jodieann

(5/12) I had 2 rounds of interview and got the internship as a Strategy and Writing intern at HNW Inc. in the summer of 2015.

— Jodieann

(6/12) To my surprise, I was able to work on strategic campaigns for key players in the financial sector. I was finally apart of something!

— Jodieann

(7/12) I was given a chance! I was given major tasks like managing the social feed for the company,as well as strategy + a intern project.

— Jodieann

https://twitter.com/JodieannStephen/status/700112694528122880

(9/12) We had to create a marketing campaign for a niche audience. This was the moment for me to shine!

— Jodieann

(10/12)It made me become a critical and strategic thinker. It made me want to go above and beyond. For the 1st time I wanted to be a CEO!

— Jodieann

(11/12)I want to call the shots! I want to work on a team with not only intelligent indv but creatives. And I want to be able to write.

— Jodieann

https://twitter.com/JodieannStephen/status/700113251724627968

(12/12) Not only did I write-I grew as an indv. I saw myself in a role that I've never ever imagined. Now I have tasted it and I crave it!

— Jodieann

https://twitter.com/JodieannStephen/status/700113771608567811

 

Reflection

The first project of the semester was so much fun! I enjoyed the project immensely. The Twitter project afforded me a chance to craft and participate in a non fiction storytelling via the platform and incorporate multimedia. I loved every bit of it! As I look back, one of the hardest moment I struggled with was deciding on a subject to discuss, there were so many important stories that I wanted to share. In the end, I decided to talk about attaining a summer internship in a field that was unfamiliar to me and talk about the struggles and triumphs that it comes with and how I discovered myself in the long run. I really enjoyed sharing my story because many of my classmates are dealing with similar issues and I hope to be a resource for them. After completing the project I realized that I had social media strategy to share my story nor did I have any target audience. But I do think that I was successful in delivering my story because I received user engagement on Twitter from my classmates, Professor Ellis, as well as the social media manager of Indeed— which was really cool! I used a few hashtags and was expecting an increase in my impressions but I was unsuccessful. My task for this semester is to build a following on my professional Twitter page where I can interact with industry leaders, connect with unique socialites and network network network!

 

Analytics

For the Twitter project I went back and forth on whether or not I should use my already established account or create a new account, in the end I ended up creating a new Twitter account. Looking back, I believe if I had used my previous account with my 200 plus followers I would have had a much stronger user engagement apart from my classmates and would have received a surge in impressions. This was a fun exercise because building a Twitter persona from scratch is not easy. This may seem like a daunting task but I am completely ready for a challenge.