Get excited - it's time for the next installment in my Mini-Art School postings. You're in for a treat tonight, as you'll get an early preview of what surely will be accepted into the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. This weeks art school focuses on the creation of Story Boards and the concept of multimodality. Let's jump right in!
Storyboarding
(not to be mixed up acts of torture - though you are subjected to my personality)
So I'll admit that I found myself challenged at first with the creation of a Storyboard for my MMP. I struggled to see how it was possible to do so for a website and the merit in doing so. However, as to be expected, it turned out to be VERY helpful and I learned a lot in doing it. I fortunately did this activity earlier in the week right before I started with the actual creation (putting it into the website). This helped me to better organize my thoughts. It also made it a breeze to translate the storyboard into the website design. This freed me up to be even more creative and intentional in the design of the website, as I wasn't mentally taxed with the WHOLE creation process from scratch.
Here's my storyboard - let me know what you think!
Concept in 60 Video
I REALLY enjoyed the reading on modality this week. The assertion by Moreno and Mayer (1999) that words should be presented as auditory narration rather than visual on-screen text resonated strong with me. I have a bit of a hike in commuting to Rutgers for class. When possible, I have bought my class textbooks as audiobooks and listen to them in the car ride. I have found that my memory of the text is much stronger when I hear it through the audiobook vs. reading it.
Also to connect to previous readings, I cropped some of the pictures so that they had better alignment, flow and focus.
For this multimodality lesson, I created a 60 second video text. The theme of video is boy meets girl through art and becomes a couple. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Boy Meets Girl Through Art
The Bean
Maiya has had some celebrity sightings recently and has perfected the high five! I'm not sure if she was more excited for Jack the Jackal or Eli Manning....
Hi Steve-
ReplyDeleteYour storyboard video was interesting but made me a bit dizzy! Jumping back and forth I thing I lost some of what you were trying to communicate to us. However, I can't wait to see how your MMP project turns out! I can tell that you are a fan of the scrapbook theme, and if you haven't shown it to your wife, I would- it was adorable. That would definitely earn you some points.
Great job!
Shannon
Steveeeee-
ReplyDeleteStoryboard - the word entertaining does not do justice. You have a great voice to go along with the narration of it. I see you focused on the layout, more than specific content and you focused on what actual pages you will have on your website! Great start -you'll be able to create the pages at the very least!
Video - the music was very elegant and fit with the 'art' concept, but some of the pictures were extremely silly, throwing me off a bit. But I understood the concept and the transitions were smooth. The pictures were aligned and cropped perfectly! I'm glad no one's head wad cut off (ha -except Ronald McDonald's???).
Boo Giants. Sorry, but I can't clap for that!
Great post. I actually enjoyed the Moreno and Mayer (1999) article as well, but I feel like I'm more of a visual and textual learner rather than an auditory learner. Sometimes things really do go in one ear and out the other -so listening to podcasts and such do not work so greatly for me! :(
-Henna T.