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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>
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