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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>
+<h3>First-Week Video Script</h3>
+<iframe width=600 height=400
+src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/03_first_week_video">
+</iframe>
+<dl>
+    <dt>Goals</dt>
+        <dd>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.</dd>
+    <dt>Purpose/Prompt</dt>
+        <dd>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.</dd>
+    <dt>Audience</dt>
+        <dd>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.
+        </dd>
+    <dt>Design for Medium</dt>
+        <dd>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.</dd>
+    <dt>Revision</dt><!--The most important question-->
+        <dd>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.
+        </dd>
+</dl>