Multi Media Creativity Project

Multi Media Creativity Project

Project Description : For your final project you must create a multi-media presentation based on one of the following themes, or ideas.

1) Create a personal digital story you would like to give as a gift to someone who has been influential in your life.

2) Create a personal digital story through which you honor the life someone important to you, or who has inspired you.

3) Create a digital story based on an object or any memorabilia that is significant to you, your family, or your community.

4) Create a multi-media presentation, or digital story on the subject of creativity, or on one or two of the “meta-ideas” Jonas Lehrer discusses in the final chapter of his book Imagination: How Creativity Works.

5) Create a multi-media presentation that is an experimental, artistic work, of poetic expression, or surreal affect.

6) Create a digital story/presentation on a social or community issue of importance to you, your family, or community.

Project Requirements : The project should run for 4:00 to 5:00 minutes. You must include the following components in your project separately.

1) A 300 to 400 word, narration/voice over that will tell the story or present the ideas of your chosen subject.

2) 20 to 25 images to supplement the voiceover. These can be directly related to the subject, or they can serve as figurative (metaphorical, analogical, emotive representations, etc. . . .) expressions of ideas related to your subject.

3) In addition to the voiceover, audio, narration associated with your presentation, you should also use additional audio tracks as part of your presentation. These tracks could include music, recordings of natural sounds seasons, recordings of events, machinery, etc.

Project Tools : You will need the following tools to produce your multi-media project.

1) Film video editing software or applications

2) Audio recording software or applications

3) Photos, still images, or film cuts to develop visual components of your presentation.

4) Related resources:

A. For film editing you can use Final Cut, imovie, Adobe Premiere, or other video editing software you might be familiar with. If you don’t have any of those, or if you don’t know how to use them, you can go to We Video to develop and edit your project. The We Video website will holds instructions for creating a free account as well as tutorials and information about using their application to build digital media projects.

https://www.wevideo.com/

B. You may gather images and photos from your own personal collections as well as from a variety of online sources.

For example, Creative Commons offers a number of free downloadable images and video you can use to develop ideas for your presentation.

https://search.creativecommons.org/

**** Note: Creative Commons also holds audio tracks you can import for use in your presentation .

C. Most computers, tablets and phones have free audio software and apps for recording voice and music. Garage Band is available on most apple computers, but you can download, free audio software from Audacity, if you don’t have software or applications already installed on your computer.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

For More Information on Digital Storytelling , review the following web resources:

http://captura.llanogrande.org/whatis.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NipDAd3_7Do

http://storycenter.org

Additional Information :

1) The first drop box will be for your 300 to 400 word digital story/narrative/voiceover.

2) The second drop box will be for your project images.

Your first entry for the multi-media portfolio will be a project description, abstract, or voiceover narration. That should be one paragraph to one page long and it should include

Who you would like to give the portfolio to and why would you like to create this for them?

What your subject(s) will be

What kind of materials or tools you will use

What media you will use

Your statement on how you plan on making the work creative

Or a narrative that you will later use the foundation for a multi-media digital story

For this assignment, you must put together a creative project. The project should include work from a variety of media, including at least one example from each of the following areas.

Written Work/Entries

Autobiographical

Fictional

Poetry

Drama

Film Script

Audio Work/Entries

Music you’ve created

Sounds you’ve created

Sounds you’ve recorded

Voice recordings

Visual Work/Entries

Painting

Drawing

Graphic Design

Photography

Sculpture

Film

Collage

Montage

You might also use elements and/or themes of

Body movement

Animals

People

Collective movement

Animals

People

Sensory, imagery,

Sight

Sound

Touch

Taste

Smell

You choose your own creative subject, at every point, for every part of the creative portfolio.

The portfolio/presentation may also include

Quotes from writers, artists, musicians, mathematicians, scientists, etc . . . , as you prefer

Images from art, photography, film and other visual media

Cuts from audio recordings

Natural sounds

Sounds effects

You might also consider using strategies for the development of creative work, as learned or explored through activities and readings for this class.

For example, you might select a media for your creativity and then explore ways to combine the work from that media with strategies or techniques for working in other media.