Digital Media Reflection

1. We chose to narrow our topic down to more specifically Title X and Planned Parenthood for our media project, because we felt like it really encompassed what we were trying to do in the first place. Most of the information we found was online. We got information from the Planned Parenthood website and when I was making the video I kept finding articles that were like “7 facts you need to know about Title X” and stuff.

2. The analysis project was way more about just looking at various platforms and seeing how they related to our topic and each other as far as how they relayed information. Seeing this, it was easy to transfer over Twitter and YouTube to our project. We included the concept of hashtags and Twitter posts in our video, and the video itself is meant to be a homage to YouTube. We kind of conflated Twitter and Tumblr since they were similar platforms. A person would need basic literacies such as being able to read/hear/know what a video is. If you’re blind the video probably doesn’t do much for you except provide a calming rhythm. They’d also need to have basic info of the # metoo movement and related issues because the video I made requires a certain amount of pre-knowledge. One way it’s a translation is how I took Alyssa Milano’s original tweet and used it to make a sort of collage of metoos. I was re-vamping tweets to suit my own purposes and added audio to a previously purely visual thing.

3. Mostly it was fine. It’s really hard to find a good video-making format online for free. I will always be bitter about that god. Damn. WATERMARK. UGH!!! It wanted me to pay fifty bucks to remove it?? Hell nah. Y’all gonna have to deal with the giant MOOVLY. Other than that I liked coming up with cool ideas to put into it. It was a little stressful at times because when you’re coming up with the structure of a video (or any project really) it always seems like it’s going to be bad until it isn’t anymore. For a while this video was straight garbage before I tweaked all the problems and found a good song to match it. Without the music the video doesn’t do much, but once it’s added it really adds a stronger element to it. Also Moovly only let me make a three minute video unless I became a member, so I couldn’t really add music because all the music I wanted to add was over three minutes. So I had to make the video in Moovly and then I found another video format online and added audio, and it sounded great, and then it wanted to add a watermark too! TWO WATERMARKS?? Not in my good Christian video.

4. We’d start by uploading it to YouTube and then probably circulating it through Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, possibly more if we could. Reddit, maybe, if I could figure out how it works. I feel like that would reach a wide range of people, since Facebook is mostly old people who need to see something provocative in their sad wrinkly lives and Reddit is full of weirdos. Twitter and Tumblr are already on board with it, they’d spread it like wildfire. I don’t imagine this video would actually do a lot. If I was truly going to publish this I’d add a lot more information and probably some voice-overs so it’d be more accessible. But as it is I think it would mostly be a springboard for people to look up more information. It’s not anything highly profound or informative, it’s mostly pathos.