Due: Monday, December 5, 2016

You have two options for your final. The first is open to the recent events of the 2016 election, and the second is a continuation of the imaginary-app design previously introduced in Project 3.

OPTION ONE:

Consider the concept of the imaginary app that you developed for project three in order to evaluate how you could use such an app to create critical commentary or a reflective piece on the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election. This could be accomplished in various ways. One could be to embed content in your video documentation related to the election as material that shows people learning about the Presidential election as they use the app. With this approach the video documentation of your app development could have a double purpose: to show how a new tool may come to enhance our possibilities for communication, while showing how such communication shapes our understanding of political events. You could re-edit your video documentation as a short narrative in which the app serves as a tool inherently useful to communicate or engage with issues you find important in the election.

An interesting thing to consider for this option is how communication platforms/apps may come to shape the actual outcomes of the election process. For instance, articles have been written that Facebook functioned as an echo-chamber that led people to be misinformed. How could you show something related to this with your imaginary app video? For this option, you will still need to provide and prepare your final material according to part two of option two. For "design/sketches" you may show a combination of sources along with actual designs you developed for your final project. (See below.)

OPTION TWO:

This option consists of two parts:

1) The first part is the final production of your video documentation. You need to reshoot or re-edit any part of your imaginary-app documentation so that it can be considered a well produced conceptualization of your idea as a potential actual object at play in real life.

To accomplish this you must revisit all of the requirements previously introduced in the Third Major Project:

• Make sure that the video is no longer than 3 minutes (2 or less would be optimal) documenting your design process of an imaginary app.
• Use all source material including image capture of your digital files, hand-sketches, photos and videos of you in the studio working on the concept development and design.
• Footage of relevant material that informs the development of the app should be included.
• Make sure your video makes the most of stop motion/video montage techniques explored in projects throughout the class.
• Make effective use of the three basic shots: the wide, mid and close up.
• Make use of your understanding of image and text layout as explored in your first major assignment to create an engaging narrative.
• Use text/type strategically in the form of subtitles, or chapter introduction for specific sections of your video in order to explain certain parts of your process as you move from the early creative stages to more advanced and/or final prototype of the imaginary app.
• Make a final decision on the type of narrative you will be using: a voice-over that explains the process of your app development, or subtitles that explain the process as the video plays.
• Reevaluate the use of any sound or images that will help enhance the narrative of your video.

2) The second part of your final consists of creating a webpage of your video that also includes selected documentation and designs that led to the conceptualization of your imaginary app.

The most basic type of webpage can be created with a table set up. I show this template below. I will also upload to Canvas the page as a separate file so that you may peruse it. You may also use a free web development service. Many are listed on resource webpage for this class.

To make the video available online, you will need to upload it either to YouTube or Vimeo. Once the video is uploaded, make sure to embed it on your page.

Upload your webpage to Canvas, make sure all links to images and outside sources are functioning properly. I will go over details for basic html tagging and design on November 28. Make sure to come prepared to take notes and/or follow along.

You must upload all material ready for viewing to Angel by Monday, December 5, and must make any adjustments as explained during your final critique by the following week. If your work is critiqued on December 5, then you must turn in all adjustments by December 5; if your work is critiqued on December 7, then you must turn in all adjustments by Wednesday, December 14. Note that you must show up with a finished project on December 5 (regardless of whether you will be critiqued on Monday or Wednesday). You cannot think that December 12 or December 14 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.