Due: Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The final consists of two parts:

1) The first part is the production of two videos. For the first you will shoot and edit your own footage, and for the second you will revisit the content and form of your first video by remixing only online material. In other words, for the first video you must develop an abstract story of your own, then reconsider how your story and the aesthetic that you developed can be recreated with material already online that you can remix to recreate your original message.

For the first video you can use any software of your choice, such as Final Cut. For the video remix you will be using Popcorn Maker.Review Part two of Everything is a Remix, in which you can see how Lucas and Tarantino remake previous shots: Part two: http://vimeo.com/19447662. In your case you will not be recreating your own footage in the remix, but rather searching for material online that can "look like" or somehow conceptually perform the same role of a scene/shot/character in your own video.

Things that must be met:

• Each video must be no longer than 30 seconds. If you find this difficult in order to develop your content, think of TV commercials, which are able to tell complete stories in less than 30 seconds. Ask yourself, how do they do it?
• Your videos must present some type of tension: mystery, ambiguity, suspense, potential conflict, etc. The footage must appear to be a defining moment in a bigger story.
• Your video remi,x to be produced in Popcorn Maker, must implement at least one "just-in-time" media, such as Twitter, or Google Maps. You must find a way to make the implementation actually part of your remix, as opposed to simply a way of pointing to a link or article which people can click on. This may be possible, but the just-in-time element must somehow become an actual "character in the story."
• For your video remix you are encouraged to use more than videos. You have the option to embed still images as well. How would stills enhance your storyline?
• If you're more advanced and know html 5, for your video remix you can embed a page you created that may have images or information that you put together, which will change by using a random script. (See me about this if you to try it).

2) The second part of your final consists of choosing six of your projects from the last semester. The choices could be major or weekly projects. The projects you choose must be improved on if necessary in order to meet the standards of a final production.

You will create a webpage which presents your two final videos at the top and the six selections below them. See Diagram below:

Your videos should be embedded and viewable on your page, but also should have a link to YouTube and Popcorn Maker Respectively (this is already part of any embedding). Your project images should be thumbs (meaning smaller versions of the actual image/project) which when clicked will offer the actual image or video, cinemagraph, etc.

To develop your page you may use a template from Thimble, or you may adjust a default template I will provide. Your pages will be made avaiable online and linked at the top of the class syllabus with a brief explanation of our process throughout class.

You must upload all material ready for viewing to Angel by Tuesday, April 23, 2013, and must make any adjustments as explained during your final critique by April 29. If your work is critiqued on Thursday April 25, then you must turn in all adjustments by Thursday May 1. Note that you must show up with a finished project on April 23 (regardless of whether you will be critiqued on Tuesday or Thursday). You cannot think that April 29 or May 1 is the actual deadline. If you show up with an incomplete project, your project will be graded down automatically by one letter grade. If you fail to make the adjustments mentioned during your critique, your final project grade will also be lowered one letter grade.