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-<!--Title: First-Week Video-->
-<h2>Introduction:</h2>
-<p>This video is a short (1m30s) personal introduction and a discussion
-of which element of WOVEN I expect to struggle most with in this course.
-I expect to struggle with visual communication more than the other
-forms, which will manifest in several places but will probably have the
-most significant effects on videos or the blog design.
-This video also includes how I plan to develop my skills with this
-modality (I plan to focus on design and aesthetics of presentation).</p>
-<h3>First-Week Video</h3>
-<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/450699415"
-allowfullscreen="" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
-<dl>
-    <dd>Goals</dd>
-        <dt>Through this assignment, I familiarized myself with the
-        WOVEN elements and set a goal for self-improvement throughout
-        the course.
-        I also worked on video production and presentation, to practice
-        some of these elements.
-        I expect to target this in assignments throughout the course.
-        I also better understand the value of targeting multiple types
-        of communication for rhetoric and in different works.
-        This assignment was also directed towards the course material,
-        and I better understand the assignments that we will be doing
-        throughout the course (like the reading journal or final video
-        project) because I will probably want to put extra effort into
-        using the visual and design aspect of my content effectively.
-        The reading journal, especially, will benefit from extra design
-        work.</dt>
-    <dd>Purpose/Prompt</dd>
-        <dt>This video includes a short introduction to me, including my
-        name, "major," and hometown and the theme of this course (health
-        as a social construct) and the teacher (Dr. Markley).
-        The First-Week Video asks about a potential struggle with WOVEN
-        based on previous experience with trying to communicate in the
-        medium.
-        In addition to previous experience with the medium, the
-        assignment asked me to develop a goal and a way to reach that
-        goal based on that previous experience.
-        I did this by talking about a focus on revision and the specific
-        component of graphic design, but I didn't match these with
-        previous experience.
-        I could have talked about better, simpler presentations I've
-        made on topics I've known more about, where I can tell most of
-        the story and the graphics were improved through a couple of
-        rounds of revision, based on the content.</dt>
-    <dd>Audience</dd>
-        <dt>The audience is faculty members and other first-year
-        students who are familiar with WOVEN, this assignment, and the
-        objectives of the course in general, like rhetoric.
-        Because of this familiarity with the objective, I explicitly
-        connected the visual mode to my difficulty with speaking
-        briefly, but I tried not to overexplain the mode or visual
-        design.
-        However, I did give my personal experience of how the need for
-        brevity and dense language collide.
-        PowerPoints and posters are my most common interactions with the
-        visual mode, and my audience should be familiar with both.
-        However, I barely included one anecdotal example under the time
-        constraints, possibly because I explained too abstractly: I
-        could have talked about a revision or the impact of a poor
-        design and better shown my point about brevity and still had
-        time to talk about the digital reading journal.
-        </dt>
-    <dd>Design for Medium</dd>
-        <dt>Because this is a video, I focused on engagement.
-        For content, I wrote out a script that I would read, rehearse,
-        and edit down into.
-        I used a high-jumpcut vlog style to make the video seem more
-        energetic, and I tried to keep my voice upbeat because my voice
-        is the primary content in this style.
-        I chose not to use another production style like a time-lapse or
-        slideshow because I think my image and a direct explanation of
-        my ideas is important and best delivered talking straight to the
-        camera.
-        I included music (the instrumental of White Town's Your Woman)
-        because I think that it better covers up breaks in talking and
-        maintains a central element throughout the video.
-        I did try to keep it quiet relative to me talking because the
-        music itself is unimportant.</dt>
-    <dd>Revision</dd><!--The most important question-->
-        <dt>Another type of video may have fit my argument better, but
-        given the style I chose, the video could have been improved on
-        the script and on the presentation.
-        The script could have been much more personal by extending the
-        anecdote and possibly including a visual representation for the
-        product I created.
-        I also probably should have chosen music not under copyright,
-        and possibly faded it out at the beginning and in at the end.
-        For the final product, cutting away to an image might have made
-        it more engaging.
-        The way I filmed it could also be improved: I held the camera,
-        so it shook a bit, and I read the script for part of the video.
-        If I had mostly memorized the script and propped up the camera
-        to get a single shot between cuts and to stabilize it, the video
-        would probably feel higher quality.
-        </dt>
-</dl>