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Video Assignment: Concept in 90

Beautiful, intense, enthralling, sad, disgusting, scary, provacative, aweful, angerinducingThe Concept in 90 project asks you to create an exactly 90 second video that illustrates some sort of abstract concept and induces some kind of emotion in your viewer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTOfEv0nWfA The requirements are: 1. Your video text must run 90 secondsno more, no lessincluding title screen and any credits. 2. Your video text must take a critical, reflective, and/or interpretive approach to its subject matter, but it also must have some sort of narrative, a bit of a story feel. 3. You must have some kind of audio track (copyright free) that rhetorically enhances your video. 4. You must use at least two special effects but not gaudily. 5. You must have a variety of angles and zooms. 6. You must include a title screen somewhere in your video text. You must also give yourself credit as the video artist/composer somewhere in the video text. 7. You must secure permissions for all materials used in your project. Also, you must give credit for all materials used in your project. 8. You must include at least 45 seconds of video you shoot yourself. 9. You must have some stock footage found online that is copyright free and that is cited in the credits. Resources for Creative Commons Video and Music: http://search.creativecommons.org/ http://creativecommons.org/record-labels Freeplaymusic.com Prelinger Archives CCMixter Freesound Project Phonography.org

Assignment 3: Concept in 90
____Technical Skill (15 points)
Sprezzaturadoesnt look overproduced or sloppy Cuts are smooth Video isnt shakey Two types of special effects are employed Sound quality is mixed well

____ Sublimity (20 points)


Nothing is distractingmusic, voice mistakes, etc. Story catches the watchers attention Creates some sort of powerful emotion through beauty or sublimity Has a good control of images and overall the reader gets caught up in a world Video is well paced

____ Concept (20 points) Concept is clear but not repetitive


Passes the scattegories test Does something unexpected Some kind of story feel

____Music (10 points)


Music fits the storyrises and falls with the plot elements and doesnt distract Music is well-mixed. Not too loud or soft

____Visual Rhetoric Savvy (15 points)


Employs some sort of visually rhetorical move of your choice Ethos, pathos, and logos are readily perceivable and effective Zooms and angles used effectively Beyond genre standards, layout is well-balanced, colored, and arranged

____Requirements (5 points) ____Cover Letter (15 points)


Explains the choices you made to create your essay Explains how you fulfill the assignemnts criteria Uses the language that has been introduced in class to describe the image and audio projects

______Total (100 points)

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