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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>
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