Assignment: We Media Movie

On Feb. 9 our class undertook an intensive brainstorming session ["absolutely no more than one hour from 0 to 60!"...and we did it] to conceptualize a group, "open source" We Media Movie. The goal is to create a "portrait of our digital generation" through a series of one-minute movies shot and edited by each student. Depending on the outcome, these may be combined to make a single movie, and/or they may be placed on a website as a series of short films that together comprise a larger project.

Individual films due as one-minute Quicktime movies for screening in class on February 23.

Topics:

Cell phones

• Cell phone technology (cam phones, SMS) -
• Attitudes towards cell phones – Sam CG
• Cell phone etiquette – Scott
• History of cell phone use

IPod use, Podcasting, File sharing

• Attitudes towards iPods - Khanh
• Buying vs. sharing - Sarah
• Radio, podcasting - August

Facebook, digital cameras on campus

• Social rules on facebook, facebook etiquette - Evan
• Facebook uses - Karina
• Digital cameras and the campus and photosharing - Erika

LAN games, videogames

• Halo, Sports games - Greg
• Social aspects of LAN/videogames, reality vs. virtual reality - Seth
• Return to vintage video games - Dan

Blogs and News

• Carleton blogs – Tommy
• Who reads news online? – Leah
• Movement from desktop to laptop. Wireless - Daniel

Needs topics: Aleisha, Sam Lowry, Blum, Gracie, Niko

Project Outline:

• Overall goal of project: Snapshots, sketches, etc. of media at Carleton
• Personal take on these topics
• Observation, reflection, conversation
• Connective elements
• Arbitrary item – the squirrel(the Where’s Waldo effect)
• A cohesive title screen (music video screen)