Your weekly blog

Your first blog posting -- on coming of age as a worker -- is due on Friday by noon.

Remember that your blog postings are primarily an archive of visuals with brief captions (no longer than a sentence per image).

Although the captions should be brief, be sure that you carefully edit for correct punctuation, capitalization and spelling.

Aim to showcase through image some of the key insights that you've gleaned from our site visits, especially in terms of how they help you understand the challenges of coming of age as a declassé governess in mid-19th century Britain.

By Tuesday morning, please be sure to look at and comment on several other classmates' blogs. Aim to comment on different blogs each week.

How to Publish Your Video

When you are satisfied that your video project is compete, click on SHARE and the pull down menu will give you a choice for YOUTUBE. (You'll need your username and password at this point. Most computers store this info on the hard-drive.) 

Be sure that you designate the film PUBLIC so that all of us can view it. Once the film has been successfully uploaded, click on SHARE and copy the URL. Please send me the url via email.

Finally, be sure that you post your youtube link to your blog. On your final blog entry, provide a short introduction to the film and a brief reflection on what you would do differently with this film, if you had more time and resources. 

Tips for Movie-Making

The script and storyboard process is probably the most important and detailed part of the work of your movie-making, so be sure to dedicate considerable time to this part.

Your script should have a governing argument (a thesis) about what London (its books and its sites) have taught you and can teach others about coming of age as a global citizen. Be sure that every image, every sound, and most importantly, every sentence contributes to support this message. You should clarify what specifically each novel teaches about coming age. (Claiming, simply, that Jane Eyre teaches about coming of age as a worker is NOT an example of specificity!) You need to demonstrate that you have read, thought about, and learned something from each of the books you highlight in your film. Your script should highlight key passages from the novels, and it should also link themes from each novel with sites that we’ve explored in class.

Be sure to consider each of the materials you’d like to include. (What text, images, and sounds will you use?) This is where your storyboard comes in. Take a lot of care with this stage, especially in drafting and revising your script. It will save you a lot of time if you get your script right before working on production (gathering pictures and videos). Because you will not (yet) have read all of the novels of coming of age, give yourself space in your drafting for adding at least one more book to your message.

Over the weekend, you and your partner should begin to investigate some of the following tools:

As you begin the post-production work of assembling and editing your movie, you may want to check out the following sources:

1. TCU New Media Writing Studio  “Resources”

   http://www.newmedia.tcu.edu/resources.html

2.  Moviemaker (for PCs):

     http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2/
 

3.   iMovie (for Macs):

    http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovi

     http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/imovie3x

4. Sound resources

Free Audacity Download  (To record yourself)
               http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

 Audacity Tutorial
            http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html
            http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials

  Downloadable Music files
            http://www.archive.org/details/audio_music
            http://ccmixter.org/find-music
            http://www.freeplaymusic.com/index.php


    4. Sound effects
            http://www.findsounds.com/types.html

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For your first blog entry, please provide an introductory photo essay about you as a Horned Frog.

(A photo essay consists of at least 5 high-quality digital photographs or film clips. Accompanying each image/clip, you will include brief (one sentence or less) captions.)
 
In your introductory photo essay, aim to answer these questions: What kind of student are you? What are some of your favorite haunts here on campus? What objects or landscapes best express who you are and what you value?

Please select images and text that help us see your distinctiveness, rather than how you're "typical" or similar to others at TCU. Showcase your individuality, your quirks, your personality!