Process Piece

Preggo Routine

I've come to realize that my morning routine takes a lot longer than I thought. For this video, I wanted to show my breakfast routine from a first-person point of view. To prepare, I researched the best way to angle my camera in order to get this perspective and tried out a few different ways of holding my phone until I had the desired result. I then coordinated with my husband and taught him how to hold the camera at my eye-level and move around with me so it looked about right. We had to take things fairly slow to keep the right angle, so I'm sure we were quite the sight as we slowly shuffled around the kitchen.  In the end, I was surprised to find that we finished the video at 11 minutes. I had purposefully filmed the video as a normal video, intending to use iMovie to speed it up and take out the audio because I thought the process would be too short to do a time-lapse.  I had planned beforehand what I would do, mapping out what kind of oatmeal I would make, the fact I'd film myself gathering all of the supplies, taking my supplements, then taking the first bite of my breakfast, yet it still took longer than expected.  The iMovie app could only speed up my video to twice its original speed, so I would have still had a five and a half minute video. There were a few things that still didn't go according to plan that ended up lengthening the planned out process. These little oversights, like the fact that the almond butter I used for my oatmeal was new and needed to be opened while the filming was taking place, lengthened the video to the point where I needed to just cut out the oatmeal process completely and simply focus on the supplement part of things instead so I could keep to the required time frame for this assignment. It still meets the requirement for the assignment, it just had to be adjusted from what my original plan was.

I appreciate what Barney says about assessing student work and how we need to focus on the content rather than the creativity of it. I can't say my video will win any kind of award with how amazingly advanced my filming is, but it meets the requirements of showing a human process, beginning, middle, and end, within the time limits of 1-2 minutes. There's also an increase in its quality because I knew that fellow classmates would be seeing it and providing feedback. I also love that I have the chance to look back on it (ponder) and think about the process of everything as well as how I could have improved the product.

I think it's important for students to have the chance to share their work with others. It helps them put thought into what they're doing because they know they'll be accountable for it to people other than a teacher. I also love that it helps build an online presence.  We can help our students have a meaningful presence, something they can be proud of in the future.  I think this is especially important for people who want to continue doing theatre because it can be easily referenced to in the future.  Plays the student has written, videos of monologues or scenes they've done, and so forth can showcase their talent and passion for their work.  It can also help them improve in their craft or see improvement as they continue to look back on it and reevaluate the work they've done.  I love the idea that it isn't a throw-away project anymore, but something that can be useful at the time as well as through the years.