Michael Chang – Representing Others

Representing others – shoeshttps://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mchang3/art%20250/shoessss%20mike.mov?uniq=-zbj6btover thanksgiving break i was able to capture the shoehead phenomena at my high school. i was not able to use my actual voice when me and my friend previously interviewed students at my high school. i dubbed my voice afterwards and the my voice does not sound as ambient and loud when recorded on a mac computer mic than the students i interviewed. i was able to add some funny comments though too bad i didn’t do it when we interviewed the students live. this video toook a loong time to do because of the re-recording of my voice. i wish i had added some more shots of shoes or played on the act of someone stepping on someone’s shoes more.

Michael Chang – Visual argument with labor union

Visual argument with labor union  https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mchang3/art%20250/Visual%20Argument%20Contracts%201.mov?uniq=nfb7id   This was one of the tougher videos because it was 5 min long. i spent a total of about 10 hrs working on this project no including filming. the interviews i did in one take. and finished filming everything the day the video camera was due. soo i didn’t get to fix some things by getting more video footage during the editing process. i had a hard time finding the three pictures that i did but i found them on the daily illini webpage and google. i realized later after the interviews that i shouldn’t have said uh huh and agreed with the interviewee WHILE they were talking as a i realized later how hard impossible it was to edit two people talking simultaneously on imovie.  i also wished my questions were more clearer

Michael Chang – Representing Myself

Representing myself 1 min https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mchang3/art%20250/Representing%20myself%20working%20out.mov?uniq=nfb7i7in this video i tried to show myself working out. the is a representation of what i like to do in my spare time. the hard part was finding someone who was willing to video tape a whole workout session. i decided to speed things up in the video so it wouldn’t be boring watching me do the same routine over and over. 

Representing Others/Visual Argument: Salt & Light

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/tlee22/www/writingwithvideo/Interview%20Salt%20%26%20Light%20QT.mov

This is probably the most difficult project for me. Initially, I interviewed Nathan and due to using a condenser microphone and a weird microphone setting on the camera, I ended up having 45 minutes of footage with no audio. Obviously, since this was an interview, that was basically a huge waste of footage and I had to do the interview again. This was very disappointing because I felt that the interview the first time around went extremely well and I was happy with what I had. Unfortunately, the second time around did not go as well as the first time. It was a little bit more rushed and the follow-up questions were probably not as good. It was difficult to emulate what I had the first time around. I was able to utilize some of the footage from the first time around and just put different audio in the background. I felt restricted in what I had because the footage I had was limited. I did what I could with what I had and felt if I had more time and more footage, it would have been better. I hope the content and the message of the video speaks louder than the actual technical aspects of the video. Although it did not turn out as well as I would have liked, I am happy with what it turned out to be.

Chris Bruch Final Project

In this video I interviewed my roommates about a tornado that hit the town of Granville Illinois. At the end is my argument portion of the video it is a little short and kind of weak. I am happy with the representing other portion though. I also said it was April 20th 2007 but it should say 2004

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/cbruch2/www/RepOthersargument.mov?uniq=-zc0dxs

Chris Bruch Representing myself

With this video I wanted to show how what we wear can tell other people about us.

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/cbruch2/www/rep%20myself1.mov?uniq=-zc0ke8

Andrew Hackley – Final Project

 

Aspects & Thoughts on Marijana 

Nick Donaldson – Final Project

Making a Living on Death:

A Brief Look at the Modern Funeral Profession

 

Literacy & Persuasion – Brian Liu

Video Link coming soon.

Preparation:

Literacy as an inforgraphic video with a persuasive message.

Actuality:

The video was done in Adobe After Effects, basically a hybrid of 3D modeling software and advanced video editing software. Due to time constraints and to keep a focused persuasive message, the original narration was cut down to approximately a minute. Every second equated to approximately an hour of work.

Original Narration:

“Conventional discussion of literacy in media in the past 50 years mainly revolves around the antithesis, illiteracy. Its legacy shown in the space still reserved among “poverty, hunger and diseases” in many mission statements. But long gone is the media hype, social awareness, or the same degree of humanitarian efforts attributed to modern social issues. It has fallen by the wayside, checked off a list much as polio or ebola. While we have designed instituted methods to appease our consciences, little has gone to check the quality or effectual results of these systems.

Modern society hasn’t established a definition of literacy. It is largely attributed to reading and writing, but beyond that, the general public has little clue. Is literacy merely communication on a past-present-future timescale? Must it be aural or visual? What and who must define the statndard level of literacy? Are you even considered literate if you are knowledgable to an unused language? Is picture recognition or understanding of hyroglyphics considered literacy? Does literacy require understanding of every dialect of a particular language? What of sets of terms as in occupational or regional settings?

Alright. So here are the facts: The CIA World Factbook lists 18% of the world’s adults are illiterate – which amounts to approximately 1 billion people (and that’s only for countries who have census). This translates to approximately one in those five people are illiterate. In the United States, 99% of adults are literate in English; however, I am skeptical of the amount of adults who can pass No Child Left Behind compency tests given the amount of overlooked areas and new or unregistered immigrants.

Even so. Is literacy really that necessary? Does it really merit the classification among “social ills” or be even spoken in the same breath as drug addiction and mental health issues? Where should it rank among social issues in terms of funding? Should it be taught where there will be little use? What of occupations requiring little reading or writing – Is understanding of spoken language enough? Consider those successful despite little education. Is there a ceiling for standard of living among the other 1%?

While the next celebrity is hyping the new ecofriendly product or jumping on a trendy social issue, maybe consider the other 18% of adults that are illiterate. They may, or may not need just as much of your attention.”

Personal – Brian Liu

Premise:

Record myself playing guitar.

Actuality:

It was difficult to get the correct audio and adequate lighting each time I played. The video was recorded on three separate occasions. Though I had recorded multiple monologues, they did not fit with the overall feeling of the piece, but is included below. Overall, I don’t think the monologue was necessary to explain the video.

Monologue mp3 Link soon.

“People always think they have you figured out. They size you up and mentally reason how they would take you, or decide in passing judgment how you scale upon the normality meter – apparently I score remarkably low on this test. While it may be fruitless to sort out every assessment amiss, I by no means am as emotionless as some might claim – I merely keep my socially-unacceptable emoness to strange hours in the night.

So this is my secret spot – I know, I know, it’s a not-so-secret, but after the love-drunk couples have slinked off, it’s actually surprisingly serene, at 3 or 4 in the morning that is. What do I do? I just think and play, but it pretty much keeps me sane in some regards.”