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Introduction

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+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. +

+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. +

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The Medical Object Video

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The Project Proposal

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The Project Proposal

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The Annotated Bibliography

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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.

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The Medical Object Video Script

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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.

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Goals
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Recursive writing was a big part of creating this artifact; + the four layers in the process documents achieves the + Process + Outcome 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. + + 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. +
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Audience
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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.
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Purpose/Prompt
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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).
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Design for Medium
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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. +
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Revision
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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.
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