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Lecturer Teaching Fellowship 2024
COLWRIT 108 Advanced Composition: New Media
Project Goals
Project Goals
The goal of this project was to develop a video essay course for Film and Media Studies, with a core assignment model that can be applied to other courses in many disciplines. The assignment model uses free software for UCB students and campus library, tech, and story lab resources. It is scaffolded to teach students to:
1. Analyze and critique effective video essays
2. Come up with original ideas and choose materials, such as clips, images, graphics, music
3. Develop a written script, design storyboards
4. Produce a video essay with a strong claim and an organized argument
Learn by Doing
Learn by Doing
Students study the rhetoric of spoken and visual media in the context of practicing it themselves.
Writing at the Core
Writing at the Core
Writing is a critical component of the course expectations: every video essay has a written script that goes through a number of drafts.
Adaptable to Many Subjects
Adaptable to Many Subjects
The video essay assignment structure is adaptable to a number of courses.
Ideal for Blending Group and Individual Assignments
Ideal for Blending Group and Individual Assignments
The structure leverages group collaboration as a springboard to individual production.
Showcases Software UCB Provides Students for Free
Showcases Software UCB Provides Students for Free
All video and audio software is part of a package that UCB provides to its students.
A.I.-proof (for now!)
A.I.-proof (for now!)
Although scripting may be partially aided by A.I., the video essay project is too complex and specific in nature to be produced by a chat-bot! Students will of necessity be producing original critical work!
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