Is waterboarding too harsh? Perhaps. My struggles continue to be my Digital Literacy and my worry is how will I learn these new tools quickly. I am already stressing on how long this project will take me and I am not even certain that I will end with a product that I will be proud of. I can appreciate learning something new and I am interested in the creative aspects of all that I am learning in these courses. However, it is one thing to learn a new tool, another to create with it, also another to communicate something that you think is important with it, and a WHOLE other thing to put it out there for others to see. Humbling, in fact. Cringe worthy if I was to make this as casual as possible. You see, I am an English Literature major. I am better suited for appreciating the creativity of others.
The Process: After reading and taking notes from the articles in the iCare I began to try to put words with pictures. I then realized that there is an order for this process for a reason, so I then wrote the script out like a story. I am eager to know if I did this correctly. I am unclear if this should be informational or a sales pitch. The elevator speech reference makes me think the later. I looked at my cohorts' scripts and storyboards and then began to question this thinking. Alas, I will make changes when I hear back from them in the next class. After writing out the script it was then an easy cut and paste task between the script doc and the storyboard doc. I tried to use the template that was provided but was not finding it to be user-friendly. I hope the simplified format that I created will be acceptable. If not, I will need a few tips. I then went on to explore the video editing tools and I guess you can say that that is when my panic started to set in. I watched tutorials on each of the tools and am wanting to know if any of my cohorts have experience in any of them. So far, it appears that the WeVideo may be the easiest for me. For now I just need to breathe (like my capstone advises) and remember that this will get done and I will learn the tools. The video may not represent me or my research, but it will represent my digital video making abilities. I'm OK with that. I guess I have to be. When it is all said and done, my hope is that if I spend a great amount of time learning and producing with these tools, that I will somehow be able to use them in the future.
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