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+<!--Title: Medical Object Video-->
+<h1>Introduction</h1>
+<p>
+The Final Video Project for this English 1102 course was about a
+"Medical Object."
+In each of the texts we studied this semester, there were several
+examples of medical objects that either had big impacts or were shaped
+by their cultural and historical contexts, and therefore are a lens into
+a larger social issue (similar to the concept of health).
+This video was about finding a medical object and digging into its
+historical context within the framework of health and social ideals.
+I chose to talk about healthcare and how politics has interacted with it
+by investigating a specific drug called insulin glargine/Lantus.
+</p><p>
+This assignment was structured as the final medical object video
+artifact and three preceding process documents.
+The process documents are a proposal, an annotated bibliography, and a
+script.
+</p>
+
+<h2>The Medical Object Video</h2>
+<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/483001196" width="640"
+height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen"
+allowfullscreen></iframe>
+<h3>The Project Proposal</h3>
+<p>The Project Proposal </p>
+<iframe src="https://hrhr.dev/markley/proposal" style="width: 60%;
+height: 60vh; min-width: 600px; min-height: 400px;"></iframe>
+<h3>The Annotated Bibliography</h3>
+<p>This document came after the project proposal sequentially.
+It is a small subset of the citations I could have used from my
+research, and it includes some analysis of each source that was useful
+in developing my script.</p>
+<iframe src="https://hrhr.dev/markley/biblio" style="width: 60%;
+height: 60vh; min-width: 600px; min-height: 400px;"></iframe>
+<h3>The Medical Object Video Script</h3>
+<p>This supports the medical object video, and I read off of this for
+part of the video, but I changed some words slightly version because I
+didn't like how part of the script ended up sounding.</p>
+<iframe src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/21_script"
+width=600 height=400></iframe>
+
+<dl>
+    <dt>Goals</dt>
+        <dd>Recursive writing was a big part of creating this artifact;
+        the four layers in the process documents achieves the
+        <a
+        href="https://sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common-policies-fall-2020">Process
+        Outcome</a> with repeated editing of similar ideas and an
+        incorporation of research into the process rather than something
+        occurring before the formal process.
+        The Project Proposal includes a segment about what research
+        needs to be done for the annotated bibliography and the script,
+        which is putting in writing the process of discovery and of
+        analysis.
+        The assignment asks us to write out this proposal and then the
+        annotated bibliography because it requires us to focus on
+        research and a filming/design plan.
+        This focus means that the final product will probably have
+        better-filmed and -researched content.
+        <!--Often, without a process in place to develop these specific
+        pieces, I end up with less developed versions because I'm
+        focused on writing the script and then looking for articles or
+        research to support my ideas, which is a poor investigative
+        method. -->
+        This is a synthesis piece, and the research is meant to be very
+        broad, so I observed several different disciplines and genres,
+        and the medical studies varied significantly from summary
+        histories and newspaper articles.
+        I was able to use these different accounts, which were all
+        biased towards reporting different parts (medical histories
+        preferred medical breakthroughs, newspaper articles preferred
+        sensational statistics) to build a cohesive narrative around
+        insulin glargine.
+        </dd>
+    <dt>Audience</dt>
+        <dd>The audience is the general public, including my peers at
+        Georgia Tech.
+        This means that I'm not talking to an expert audience and can
+        assume very little knowledge about my topic like I would on an
+        essay about a book, so I need to explain a lot of the topic.
+        Most of the video is just this, me explaining the eventual
+        development that led up to genetically modified human insulin,
+        but I do have a "take."
+        This bias is deliberately embedded into the storytelling and
+        it's why I talk about patents so much even when I'm mostly
+        describing the technology's development.
+        Furthermore, this means that the product should be engaging.
+        A general audience isn't going to sit through a boring technical
+        summary like a niche audience might (although it should still be
+        avoided), and I tried to achieve this with my nonverbal tone and
+        body language.
+        Editing made sure that my speaking was decent and that picture
+        asides broke up more monotonous bits.</dd>
+    <dt>Purpose/Prompt</dt>
+        <dd>The final project asks students to create a 5-minute video
+        (I created a 7-minute video with a 1 minute end card) that
+        explains a medical object we haven't discussed in class.
+        "Object" is a really broad category, including procedures,
+        techniques, devices, medicines, models, or breakthroughs as long
+        as they are medical.
+        Originally, I was going to talk about some medical device
+        because there is a lot of injustice perpetrated by companies on
+        medical devices and information security, but I learned that the
+        FDA has allowed researchers to test implants with DRM for
+        security, which weakened my case.
+        However, I still wanted to talk about exploitation, which
+        brought me to insulin, "the poster child for [over-priced
+        healthcare]."
+        I chose to work on this project alone, and created a product
+        that explains what insulin glargine is (I used historical
+        context to do this), how it works, how it is used, when and how
+        it was invented, and the significant contexts that led to its
+        development and its current form (in insulin's case, patents and
+        massive conglomerate mergers).</dd>
+    <dt>Design for Medium</dt>
+        <dd>I used the video medium as an extension of a presentation
+        where things can be performed multiple times and modified after
+        their performance.
+        I "performed" the script in more of a news-show style than the
+        video-essay type I was looking for, but this is still a common
+        trope within the medium, so audiences are comfortable with this
+        sort of presentation.
+        I also used a couple of video essay tropes like section breaks
+        and overlain photos because I want there to be a sense of
+        consistent chronology even if I jump around some due to some
+        changes happening around the same time or being larger trends of
+        years or decades.
+        I don't have any self-made visual content, so the principles of
+        design (the symmetry, alignment kinds) are less applicable, but
+        I did choose my background to be mostly symmetric and well-lit
+        and I chose the titles based on the repetition principle.
+        I reused the wall color and the door color (lightened and
+        darkened, respectively, for readability) in the title to keep
+        color consistency.
+        </dd>
+    <dt>Revision</dt>
+        <dd>On this video, the supporting documents were fairly
+        complete, so the content and citations (when used) were relevant
+        and fairly high-quality.
+        One thing I would have prefered to do with the script or the
+        annotated bibliography is to integrate health more explicitly.
+        I believe that, implicitly, medicine, underuse, and social
+        conditions have a lot to do fundamentally with health, but I
+        believe I didn't sufficiently explore how the norms we have
+        interact with social ideals and society (like the poor).
+        For the video, I didn't leave myself as much time as I would
+        have liked to edit it, and I don't think that it is as appealing
+        as it could be.
+        The solid-color titles are somewhat bland, and even though
+        they're sufficient, a redesign could be nicer looking.
+        Images were also somewhat hastened.
+        I didn't exactly establish a style for image placement, which
+        could have hurt their inclusion, and the images that I included
+        weren't particularly deliberate; most were to break up the
+        monotony of me talking, which is valuable, but I feel that had I
+        searched harder, I may have found a more valuable image set.</dd>
+</dl>