{"id":1523,"date":"2024-11-20T20:53:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/?page_id=1523"},"modified":"2024-11-20T21:07:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:07:02","slug":"final-project-video-essay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/final-project-video-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Project: Video Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assignment:<\/strong>
\nProduce a video essay. It can be nonfiction, creative, performative, machinima, personal, etcetera.<\/p>\n

The video has to be between 5 and 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

It can be centered on a game, a topic that relates to many games, or a phenomenon related to gaming and play, both digital and non-digital.<\/p>\n

It should answer a research question, or present a thesis that is not already widely discussed.<\/p>\n

Part 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1-Bring two proposals for your video essay.
\nPost it in a shared document.
\nA proposal is a one-paragraph description, plus the supplemental material (eg a link to a video playthrough of the game). We’ll do a role-play pre-critique like we did for the presentation.<\/p>\n

2- Watch a few video essays<\/a> and select at least 2 that relate to the topics you’d like to cover in your final project. It can also be on a different topic but have other aspects you find inspirational such as: style, “voice”, editing, depth of research etc.
\nBe prepared to summarize them briefly and orally to the class.<\/p>\n

Plan B<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If you are stuck or not enthusiastic about your proposals, you can rework the subversive play assignment or game aesthetics presentation, polishing, expanding or refining it.<\/p>\n

Part 2<\/h3>\n

Continue working on your shared document.<\/p>\n

Treatment<\/strong>
\nPick your project, incorporate the feedback you found valuable, and update the proposal.<\/p>\n

Spell out your research question, thesis, or process (if it’s a more creative\/experimental piece) in the most precise way possible: In this video I will…<\/p>\n

Title<\/strong>
\nCome up with a good catchy title<\/p>\n

Benchmark<\/strong>
\nIs there already literature or videos about the topic? Are they any good? Does the world need another video like that?<\/p>\n

Outline<\/strong>
\nMake a bullet point list of the “chapters” in chronological order.
\nYou can picture them as slides in a presentation.<\/p>\n

Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

Make an inventory of what don’t you know yet (facts, data, previous research).<\/p>\n

Make a list of all the Visual material that can be used in the video eg:
\n-game footage (be specific about the scene or situation)
\n-paratext (game cover, manuals, sites, surrounding the game)
\n-community content (forum posts, playthroughs, commentary)
\n-B-roll audiovisual material that is not game capture
\n-Talking head?<\/p>\n

Part 3<\/h3>\n

Write the first half, or more, of your script.
\nBe ready to read it in class.<\/p>\n

Do the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assignment: Produce a video essay. It can be nonfiction, creative, performative, machinima, personal, etcetera. The video has to be between 5 and 15 minutes. It can be centered on a game, a topic that relates to many games, or a phenomenon related to gaming and play, both digital and non-digital. It should answer a research … Continue reading “Final Project: Video Essay”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1523\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/playfultheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}