Featuring Comparative Media Studies grad Audubon Dougherty and her MGenerations mobile video project, this video functions as an introduction to the diverse work happening at MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media.
The New Media Literacies, 2:51
In our current “flagship video”, members of the NML research team describe what we mean by “new media literacies”.
In order to background the identities of the specific researchers, place more emphasis on the ideas, and create a sense of cohesion throughout the piece, I used a filter to minimize visual detail, removed color from the original video, and added color filters using a pastel palette.
This video was nominated for the Edublogger Award for “Best Use of Educational Video / Visual”, and was voluntarily translated into Spanish. In general, it was very well-received online, a few quotes -
- On his SmartMobs blog, Howard Rheingold says:
Success in life and as a citizen increasingly depends not so much on access to devices as access to knowledge — knowledge of the skills necessary to use widely available technology to achieve one’s ends as an individual and a citizen. In other words: literacy. This video is only three minutes long, but it gets the point across nicely.
- From the New Media Consortium:
Edited in a modern graphic format, it quickly highlights what is “new” about new media literacy.
Check out this articulate, straight-forward and succinct little video highlighting the key skills which are part of digital literacy (or, as the producers prefer, new media literacies).
Why Tag?, 1:18
I created this video specifically for a learning activity that I also designed, called Tagging: Customized Collections, but it also functions well as a general introduction to the basic idea of tagging material online.
This video started as a written paragraph within the activity, which I felt would be clearer as a slideshow, which I felt could have more impact as a video. It does still have a slideshow feel.
I really like the simple, clean aesthetic I’ve created here. The visual metaphor of the needle/haystack offers novice users a solid conceptual foundation to work from as they begin to participate in tagging practices.
Katie Salen @ Institute of Play, 1:04
Currently a “partial rough cut”, this will be added to a longer piece about the school Katie is working on. As it is, it’s a nice introduction to Katie and how she thinks about game and learning.
I like the loose, casual editing style of this one.
DJ Culture: Performing Live, 6:38
One in a series of eight videos on DJ Culture that expores how participatory culture operates in the world of the dj. This series offers an inside look into the history, practices, and norms of electronic dance music, and insights from four professional djs - including the renowned dj/theorist/author DJ Spooky.
What I like about this video is how I was able to weave voices and images together to “tell the story” of live performance. I shot most of the footage here.
Report from Wikimania 2006: Where did this come from?, 4:33
This is one of five videos in the “Report from Wikimania” series. I’ve collected clips (culled from many hours of footage) that explore the critical issues of judgment and credibility within the context of Wikipedia.
I love to find ways to make dry interview footage come alive - here I used titles animated within Final Cut Pro and screen captures created with Snapz Pro and Skitch.
“Reaching Your Audience”, 1:49
My challenge here was to take pre-existing footage (the interviews had been shot before I joined the project) and create a series of short videos illustrating participatory culture at work in the world of independent comics. In “Reaching Your Audience”, I focus on “circulations”, which NML defines as “shaping the flow of media”. I describe this a bit more on my blog post “Dean Haspiel on blogs: I get to show process”.
To add visual interest to the talking head interviews, I designed titles and panels in Comic Life, which easily imported into FCP.
MIT’s techTV is now built on the Viddler platform, which allows commenting on the timeline - here I’ve added links to the artists’ websites.
