Hurry Up and Finish Those Research Papers So We Can Make Some Movies!!!!!

First things first, how are our RQII’s coming along?  Ready to submit them?  YAY!  When you are finished writing and PROOFREADING your final essays, take a few minutes to include a Writer’s Memo answering/exploring the following questions:

1. What secondary research sources did you find most useful in understanding your primary sources?  How did you go about incorporating these secondary sources into your own writing and thinking?
2. How did social construction theory help (or not) you build knowledge around your popular culture and official sources?
3. What do you think you did really well in this Research Quest?
4. How would you improve your work if you had more time?
5. What do you hope readers might learn, understand, or do after reading this work?

Turn your memo in with your final RQII essay on Canvas (“Research Quest II: Cultural Interrogation”) by Midnight tonight! 😀

Ok, so today is ACTUALLY all about RQIII things:

Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Person-based Research

Student Sample 1

Student Sample 2

Student Sample 3

Student Sample 4

After watching these samples, how can we begin to imagine our own project potential for RQIII?  Spend some time talking and thinking with potential group members or completing your RQIII proposal on your own!

Now here’s how we go about gathering and producing our data for RQIII:

1. Survey Monkey (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Interview Techniques

2. Finding an interview subject: outreach

3. iMovie or Wevideo (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. software

Today we are going to practice using iMovie or Wevideo (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. software to create a 50 – 90 second movie trailer for the film of our lives.  Use your teammates as your cast of characters and choose a genre for your film.  Will it be a raunchy all-girl comedy?  A tail of tragic romance?  What?

Student Trailer 1

Student Trailer 2

Student Trailer 3

Student Trailer 4

Next, use a trailer template in iMovie or a text theme template in Wevideo to help expedite your in-class process here and aid in your invention.  What scenes will you want to film?  What voice-over narrative will you need?  What footage from Youtube might you use, if any?

Make sure you experiment with the following features (I’ll be here to help if you need it):

• Fades
• Music
• Text
• Clip converting:
  • https://www.clipconverter.cc/
  • https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/
  • youtube-converterhttps://ytmp3.cc/

We’ll probably need to continue this practice through next week, so make sure you are arranging and inventing your own video project in the meantime and always let me know what you need help with!

When you’re done, save your trailer and upload it to Youtube.  Next, check your privacy settings and make sure your audience is as restricted as you prefer.  Then publish your video via link here as a comment!  WOOOOO HOOOO!!