For the multi-modal, we're doing a team project—a visual/textual something built by the whole class. This project could be just about anything—a book, a booklet, a movie, a website, a poster, or (likely) a combination of these. The content can be just about anything too—it could be about dentistry, politics, branding, skateboarding, traveling, losing weight, telling stories, or writing papers. You decide what message and what audience you want to send it to. Most of all, choose something that you think is important—both to you and to your target audience.
Students will each come up with their own ideas for what specific project we should do as a class. Then they'll each write proposals explaining their own unique ideas. The class will vote on which student's proposal to make into a reality. (These proposals will be due on March 21.) And then we'll create!
What's Due Tuesday
For this weekend, I want you to do a rough draft of this proposal. In this draft, tell your peers about your cool idea and convince them that it's the best—not just to you but to them too.
Because it's a practice round, you're just doing a brain dump—get your ideas out of your head and onto paper. Take 20 minutes writing ninja style—you should have at least a page, single spaced, possibly a lot more. The most important thing is that you explain the content.
The Ninja-Method Proposal is due Tuesday by 2:50pm—post it as a comment on the blog.
How to Do It
If you need help, answer these questions:
- What will the content be? A story? A guide? A piece of art? (Be super detailed on this.)
- Who will the main audience be? Five-year olds? Freshman women? Seventy-year-old politicians?
- What skills will it take to create this? Will we need computer experts? Video experts? Photographers? Paintballers? Editors? Taggers? Pirates? Poets?
- How might we divide the class to fit these roles? How many people will we need in each role?
- What extras will we need? That is, if we create a book, will there be a website to go along? Or will there be poster ads? Or maybe t-shirts too?
(This is definitely just a brain dump. Fair warning)
ReplyDeleteI believe for our project, we should make a video. In all honesty I have hardly thought at all about this project because it’s after the issues paper, but in the small amount of time I have thought about it, I think a short movie or video would be wonderful. I think it would be really fun for one, as well as powerful for whatever purpose we see fit for it to be. After reading Travis’ thing on the blog about this proposal, and the project period, he asked the question “Is it art?” I think it would be great if it was art, but also something persuasive. I mean, that is what we’ve been doing this entire semester right? It’s all been rhetoric. Why don’t we take that a step further and not only do it in the writing we have for the video, but for the actual video itself? We’ve all watched moving movies or seen videos on YouTube. I think our class would be great at making something just as good (and hopefully a lot better than) the majority of stuff found on YouTube. What topic should we use you ask? I don’t know. But I think there are a few things we could do. We could maybe make our own Mormon message…those videos are always good, so we’d have a good blueprint before we even started, and they are always persuasive. At least they are intended to be. I would say that writing a video on rhetoric would be the most logical thing to do, but I don’t think I would be very interested into that, and I highly doubt the majority of the class would be either. It’s hard for me to do this proposal, because I feel like I’m saying that I know what everyone as whole would like to do this project on. Firstly, I don’t know everyone well enough to make such judgments, and secondly, I feel like it’s highly unlikely that we find something that every single person would feel incredibly passionate about. And I feel like something like this would work best if everyone was fully into it, no matter what proposal we decide to run with. I just really hope that we find something that we are all super passionate about doing. Even if it’s not something we would necessarily do on our own, I hope it is at least something that we can really get into for this project. It might be fun to do a tour video of Utah or the area. We could take video of skiers and the campus, rock canyon, seven peaks, just fun things to do around here.
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ReplyDeleteAnother video idea could be …………we could do something about each person in our class, like a little mini interview and we could maybe make it a Mormon commercial-like video. Or we could do something like The Office, except it be The Classroom. (Hopefully we’ll have a better title.)We do a mock office type thing in our classroom. We could maybe make a script, or maybe we record a few classes (our normal classes, not when we’re working on the project) and then get ideas from that and extemporize on things that have happened and make them even more comedic, etc. We could have the little interviews with each person like they do with each character on The Office, and we could film it like a documentary. I think I like that idea best so far. There are so many things that we could do with that idea. So many different directions we could take it, and I think it’s something that everyone could get into. There is so much that goes into making a video or show like that, so we could have scripters, costumers, actors (hopefully the majority of the class), we could use our own personalities or create new ones for ourselves (which could be just downright fun) and we could have the artists do the filmography. I think that sounds like a super fun idea now! Our classes are already super funny and entertaining, to me at least, and I think that they could carry well for a video. Our audience could be just about anyone really. It could be anyone old enough or intelligent enough to understand our class, so possibly high school kids and up? Or maybe we adjust the script from our class to be targeted for a specific audience, whoever we decide it to be. It may not be super artistic like I talked about earlier, but it’s still artistic enough I guess that no matter how you are, whether you’re really artsy or not, you could get into it. We could have mini episodes or just have a really big long episode. I guess that would be like a normal episode of The Office, like twenty minutes or so. We could maybe go on a “field-trip” or something so we could film outside the classroom a little which could be fun. Or maybe we could have a fire drill or something. I remember the emergency preparedness episode from The Office was absolutely hilarious. We would take mundane things that no one things about as being comical or grand, and turn it into something huge and highly comedic. That being said, maybe we don’t want to stay with The Office at all. Maybe we could create our own little mini show just by ourselves, and make a pilot episode. Everyone in our class likes TV. right? So I should think this is something that everyone could get into. Everyone likes sitcoms and movies!
My idea for the multi-model project would be to design a class cookbook. Not only could we create a cookbook we could film short clips of ideas to help people learn the basics of cooking. We could include the DVD in the front of the book. We could collect different kinds of food to put in the book. There would be different sections in the cookbook. The sections would include: appetizers, salads and soups, main course, deserts, and drinks. There could even be a section devoted to those who are vegetarian. The cookbook would have a creative title and front page, so that those who first see it want to know more about what is in the cookbook. Then each section would have a title page introducing the new section. In each section there would be many different recipes of favorite foods from our class, along with pictures of that food. On the movie we create it would give helpful tips for basic cooking ideas. Tips like how to cut vegetable and fruit the right way, how to cook chicken, how to make dough, and other helpful things that are used in the kitchen daily.
ReplyDeleteI think that this cookbook would be directed at a younger audience. I think that it would be perfect to make this cookbook for college students that are just married. It would be beneficial for both the guy and girl to have a useful cookbook that has helpful hints to help them learn how to cook. Writing this cookbook to newly wedded couples would mean that the meals would have to look exciting to eat, but at the same time they would need to be healthy.
The skills that we would need to have would first be someone that was confident in their cooking ability. We would need a class member who has learned the basics of cooking so that if we do a video they can instruct the other class members on helpful tips that they learned. Another skill that we would need to have is one that would be able to film and edit the movies, and put together a top quality video. Another skill that we would want to have is someone that is good with computers and can put together a document in the format of a book, with pictures on one side, and instructions on the other. Finally, we would need some people that would be creative and be able to come up with a creative title for the front page and the beginning of each section.
The way we would divide the class up would be: a group on the video and instructions, a group that put together the front page and the section titles, a group that got pictures for each of the recipes, and a group that got the recipes. The group that was doing the video would have five people in the group, so one person can video tape and the others can be the ones talking and helping set up the needed material. In this group each member would need to be on camera at least once. In the group that is doing the title pages, there could be six. One member of the group could be in charge of the front title and making sure that it is creative and neat. The other five members would split the title pages up and design one of the title pages. The group that was looking for different pictures of the recipes would have four people in the group. They would have to either find pictures on Google of food similar to the recipes. I think it would be good for people to make some of the food and put a picture of it in the book. The group that is coming up with the recipes to put in the cookbook would have four. They would be in charge of getting a couple of the favorite recipes in the class and then finding other favorite recipes to put in the book. This group would be the one that formats and puts the book together.
One extra thing I was thinking we could do is to make a website of the cookbook. We could put the recipes online so that others can access the cookbook not just as a hard copy but on the Internet as well. The people that are in charge of this would be the ones finding pictures.
Yeah so. . . .this is definitely just a brain dump, but what I thought of for our multi-media project would be making like a tour guide instruction booklet/pamphlet/video/website for the Provo area. We could find all of our favorite places to go, our favorite places to eat, our favorite places for just about anything, and combine all of them together to make one big super tour guide instruction booklet/pamphlet/video/website thing. We could even combine some of those and do more than one, which would really get it out there. There could be maps and pictures of all the cool places to be with little captions about them and why they are so fun and so great. If we were to do a movie we could go to these cool places and video us just chilling, or doing whatever we do at those places. We could also have little interviews with each one of us talking about our favorite places and why they are our favorite.
ReplyDeleteThe main audience can be a lot of people. Travis only named a few with all the 5 year old crowd (maybe not so much), all the freshman women who come to town, and the 75 year old politicians who want to party. It could be beneficial to many people in many different situations. People who are visiting who don’t want to go to some random place and end up getting food poisoning and spend their whole vacation with a bowl as their best friend. We can help them with that. Or maybe it could help the people who have lived here for almost 10 years and yet still don’t know their way around Provo. I am not talking about me of course because that would be silly if I didn’t know my way around here, but I do have this “friend” who moved down here from Alpine Utah and doesn’t know where all the good places are and where not to go (I know sad right). This type of guide would be able to help people like that out and tell them where they cane find places that are really fun (cheap ☺) places to go on dates or what have you. A tour guide thing would help out a lot and make it much easier to find places around Provo.
We wouldn’t need like a rocket scientist to be able to make this work either. We would just need someone who was able to operate a video camera if we were to make a movie, someone who was good with a computer who could make a digital pamphlet or website or whatever, and just people who would be able to say where their favorite places are in Provo. That’s it! We could figure this our as a class, but we could have one group operate the video, one group operate the other digital stuff, one group that could write little excerpts about each place, and the rest could be in their favorite places getting filmed and giving interviews about them and why they are their favorite.
We should do a project called The BYU Legacy. It would be a kind of video yearbook for what is going on at BYU and in the world right now: our lives, pop culture, politics, church, etc. Each person in our class would bring an item, story, or some other form of idea memory. These would be mostly positive experiences (but that doesn’t mean a learning experience isn’t a positive experience, those could be the most relatable out of all of them). Once everyone has their idea, we will make a video. The video would start out with us filming a few of us in different places around campus, whistling or humming different parts of the fight song. When it gets to the end, the shot will be of all of us. Then we will share our legacies. This video could act as a guide to future BYU students, something to show at new student orientation that shows new students what BYU life is really like—not just what we think they want to hear. It will also serve as a method of preserving history. This is real life. While it might be funny to include them, we should try to get past the clichés and culture jokes, like passing American Heritage or getting engaged your first semester. We should make this meaningful!
ReplyDeleteTo create this, we will need some people who know about acting and filming. While these stories and memories are supposed to be from the heart, it definitely won’t hurt to have some direction from our classmates who have experience on stage or in front of a camera. The people with experience behind a camera are important as well. We want our video to catch the attention of the freshmen who have just spent two whole days out in the sun playing frisbee, getting sunburned, and team building. We may want it to have some traditional elements of BYU, nothing too crazy. But, we also want it to be something that’s never been done before. In order to accomplish this, we will have to incorporate things about us at BYU and the world right now in the perfect way. We will need someone who can edit video on a computer to make an ending project that is really put together well.
When we divide the class into roles, this might get tricky. Everyone will have a part in the video, but we will be using the technical people a lot more than others. Maybe we could divide into groups and each group would have a leader who is a photographer, filmmaker, or computer genius. We would also need a creative head in each group, not to come up with all of the ideas, but to encourage everyone to participate in the making of the movie while also sharing his or her ideas. However we assign roles and responsibilities, I think it’s important that everyone at least has one and is not just attached to a more prominent leader of a group.
Once our video is complete, I think we should post it on a blog that has shown the making of the video in pictures and stories. We can log our progress as a journal that will itself become a part of the legacy. The best way to advertise our video would be on Facebook. BYU Admissions has a page that lots of future students look to for help and information. This could be useful in promoting our video. It would be ideal if we could show it at new student orientation, but I don’t know how ideal that would be. Facebook would be a good way to share it that’s more realistic than getting it on the jumbo-tron in the Marriot Center.
Whatever we do, we should definitely have t-shirts. Why? Because everybody loves t-shirts.
Brainstorm
ReplyDeleteFor our video we should do a video on how to score a hot date. We should do this because it could be a pretty funny video, and it could relate to the stuff that we have learned in writing. How does it relate to what we’ve learned in writing? Well we learned about ethos (credibility) pathos (emotions), and logos (logical aspect). And we could relate that scoring a date. Because to get a date you have to have a good reputation/credibility, play to your date’s emotions, and be a logical choice to go on a date with.
We could make the video a couple of ways. We could make it a how-to video, and have the kids say things that they should do, and then cut to scenes of the kids acting theses things out (in funny ways duh). Or we could make it sort of like a story video; a kid could be on a quest to get a date, and keeps getting rejected, so the kid tweaks their approach and eventually it works out good for them. The main audience would be freshmen at BYU, because that’s all that the freshmen here do anyway. Both boys and girls would be the audience. The story could be directed at boys (how a boy scores a date), at girls (how a girl can get a date), or both.
What skills would we need? We would need somebody with at least a little bit of video-shooting and video-editing experience, but we wouldn’t need an expert, because this type of video would probably look funnier if it was more of an amateur looking video. We would need some actors, which we would have plenty of in our class. Everyone in our class could play a role, whether it is as an actor or as a cameraman or a video-editor. The number of actors that we would need would depend on which type of video we made. If we made a video about a story of one person, we would need less people than if we made a how-to video, demonstrating some strategies.
The extras that we would need: maybe a funny ad or maybe we could also make a funny promotional video/preview type thing.
The multi-model project should be a children’s book. I know that it was one of the things mentioned in class but I had already been thinking it would be a good idea since it will require a wide range of skills, which gives it the most potential. I also have an idea for what the story should be about, but I’m just throwing it out as an idea because I know that if my proposal wins there will be a lot more ideas and it would really be up to the class to decide. I think the story should be about a boy who seems to have a very boring life at first glance, but draws himself his own adventures as soon as he gets home from school (just an idea for the story writers). Also I think a children’s book is a good idea because at the end of the project whoever wants one can have something tangible to show for their work.
ReplyDeleteThe audience for my idea would be young kids, specifically 6-8. The reason I choose not to pick kids that were younger and just beginning to learn how to read, is because one of the skill sets that this project would need is writers and I think it would be more fun for them if they could have a little (emphasis on little) more freedom with what they write, because the kids can focus on the story rather than pronouncing the words right.
This project would need writers to write the story line, story composers to come up with the meat of the story, whether or not we use my ideas, artists to draw the pictures or photograph the illustrations. There would also need to be people with some experience in book binding and printing to put the book together.
Since the roles are specialized we could let people choose where they wanted to go based on their talents. For example, the artists would naturally choose to work on the illustrations and those who enjoy writing fiction would want to write the story line. The number of people in each team will depend on how long we choose to make the book. If it is long and the story composers have a lot of ideas, then we will need more illustrators to work on more pictures and more writers to even out the burden. I think if we had 5-6 people in each group it would be plenty to spread the work equally throughout the class.
When I chose this idea one of the things I was considering was whether each role would have an equal amount of work and I think a book is the best option. First, coming up with the story will be the most difficult, but once it gets rolling it will be quick and not as time intensive as the others. Since you’re an artist I know that you’re aware of how long it takes to compose and draw a piece and I’m hoping our book becomes a Caldecott winner! Just kidding, but I’m hoping that they will be very good. One of the things that I have learned so far in this class is writing takes forever! And so the writers will have their work cut out for them more than or just as much as the artists. You might be thinking that the people who put the book together might not have that much work and it’ll be too easy, especially if there are lots of people who want to do it. But what if each student had the option to pay for their own copy of the book? I know that I would love to put in however ever much it was to get the materials to have my own copy, and this could add up to equally hard if a lot of people in the class want a copy.
Personally I wouldn’t add any extras to the book. I know from experience that the more work you add unto to something the less complete it is. People aren’t likely to work harder to get it done and instead, the quality just gets spread around. I think it would be really cool to have a book that has captivating illustrations and a compelling story line rather than an okay book and a bunch of T-shirts.
For my idea for the multi-modal project I believe that we should make a travel guide. Our class is from all over the country so we could have people highlight different aspects of the states that they come from. We would talk about the main attractions that people travel and see and tell about the many fun things to do in each state. With this idea it is easy to split up the groups because each person would be split up by which state they are from or where they have lived and know a lot about. This travel guide would be directed to people who like to travel the country or that want to know more about each state. I know that many states have rich histories so we could point out some of the things that happened there. For example, in the Oklahoma section we could point out that there are many Native American reservations because they were forced to move to Oklahoma by the settlers. With the diversity in our class we will be able to point out the states that each of us comes from and we will be able to show why each state is great. In order to put this project together we will have to have many roles. One role that all of us will have is to find things about our states in our groups and decide which things to put in our guide. We will also need people who are good with computers and can format how to put together this document. Other people will have to find images that they are wanting to put in the guide for each section. Another thing that we will need is individuals that know how to put things together visually so that our images and the layout of our guide appeals to the senses. For each role in this project we will need different numbers of people. I think that if we have like two people that are really good at making the document on the computer that will be enough. I also think about two or three people that are really good with the visuals and the layout of the guide then that will be enough. I do not want to have too many people on the layout with the images because if you have too many people than there might be a conflict on the images and so we can avoid that problem. The other members of the class will be responsible for finding pictures and information to use in the guide. For the guide we also need it to be information that is factual so we do not lead anyone who reads it astray. For each state that we put into our guide I think that we should have at least two people total to help. I know that we do not have two people from each state but we have excess people that are from Utah. For those who live here in Utah, they can expand their knowledge about another state by working with another individual on it. By doing this, we make sure that everyone is working on the project and not just letting other people do all of the work. I do not believe that if we make a guide that we will have to do any other sort of media. By making a guide to some of the states we can further our knowledge about the diversity that we have in the United States. When I first got to BYU I really liked the diversity that we have and so I think that it would be fun for all of us to learn about different things that people do depending on where they live.
ReplyDeleteOkay, here’s the deal. I really have no idea what I want to do for this project. There’s not much that I can really think of that society doesn’t know that would be beneficial for me to put time into trying to convey. I thought about putting together websites and such to keep people up to date on the presidential race, but CNN already has something about that. I thought about the Hobbit movie and those kids that went to New Zealand, but I don’t think there’s much that needs to be done there. Okay… here’s something I’ve actually been thinking about for a while. I was walking to class the other day and there was this truck that almost ran me over. I was contemplating the purpose of the trucks, and how annoying they could be, and how if there were going to be vehicles around then maybe they should have a point. Now, I know there’s a point to the vehicles on campus, but it’s not readily apparent. So I got to thinking about what would count as a vehicle that would be useful to students, and I thought of an ice cream truck! So here’s my proposal. I think that the BYU creamery should have sort of a “Creamery on Wheels”, or something similar to an ice cream truck. It could run during the Spring and Summer, and into the beginning of Fall semesters if the weather was good enough. It would create more on campus jobs, the creamery would make bank (especially with the EFY kids all summer), and who doesn’t want an ice cream truck driving around on campus? If we were to make this possible, there would be a lot of things involved. We’d need to write up some sort of proposal to get to the creamery and whoever’s in charge, we’d need to figure out how to do advertising, come up with a logo and/or slogan, maybe create a website or a facebook page for it, stuff like that. I think it’d be a pretty intensive process, plenty for a whole class to work on. It would obviously be targeted to the BYU audience, and/or anyone that is on campus during the spring and summer. You know, it might be smart to have the truck make rounds through the off-campus BYU contracted housing too. Just to get a wider range of clientele. We’d have to come up with a way to get a truck, though the creamery probably already has some. You know, I think this could work. I know this is just a mock proposal and all, but it’s better to work on something that’s actually going to affect someone rather than something just to do a school project. I really think like this would be fun for all of the class to work on, we may even be able to get it to work, and then everyone would be able to have ice cream all summer long! Which is a wonderful idea, if I do say so myself.
ReplyDeleteKay so I honestly didn't really think about this a ton but I was playing around with a few options and I came up with the idea that for this project we could do something extremely helpful for the incoming freshmen. Since we are basically all pros when it comes to living at and attending BYU, I think we should make up a website and create a little “How To Survive Your First Semester” guide. This can be a very flexible project. There are many parts to a website and thus everyone in the class would become active participants. There would be different sections of help, like help mapping your classes or help packing for your dorm. There would even be a section of reviews for every aspect of campus life. Suchas what foods to eat at the Cannon center, little known activities like Tunnel Singing, or even a few date ideas that worked out well for some people in the class.
ReplyDeleteJust think about what you wished you knew about BYU when you started, imagine if you could learn a majority of that before you even stepped on campus as the newest cougar cub. Okay so we would need these positions filled:
-team of people to design the whole page
-two to three writers for each section with expertise
-a couple of photographers to take pictures of the highlighted subjects
-some people to ask around and get real reviews on specific things around campus
Alright so I know this idea is totally rough and needs a lot of fine tuning and perfecting but I think that as a class that we could not only produce some really well written material but also a helpful guide that can be used for years to come! The website would be built on blogger and we could advertise it on the 2012 incoming freshmen Facebook page. I really don't know what else to say about it but I think that if we decided to do this project that everyone would definitely have some form of opinions and tips to share and it would turn out awesome!
I think we should make an art project. It should be a whole wall of paper covered in pictures that tell a children’s story. It has to be very clear what story it is. It doesn’t necessarily have to be one that’s already written- it could be a combination of a lot of them, a combination of just two, or one we would like to make up. We would probably all want to decide together on what we want the story to be. Once we have decided this, we would need some people to do these different things: write out the story, figure out how to put pictures to the story and what the pictures should be and how we should get them (internet, taking them ourselves, etc.), take the pictures or find the pictures, organize the pictures along with the words others had previously written out and make sure we don’t need any more pictures, and create the poster by sticking all of the pictures on and making sure that it all makes sense.
ReplyDeleteWe have 18 people in our class and there are 5 jobs. I think we should have 2 people write out the story, 4 people figure out what pictures are needed and where we should get them from, 7 people find/take the pictures, 2 people organize the pictures and make sure we don’t need any more, and 3 people actually create the poster by laying out the pictures and gluing them on.
I think we could also change this idea a little bit and, instead of creating a children’s story with all these pictures, we could recreate a piece of history and make it a persuasive piece. For example, we could recreate the Civil Rights movement. We could find lots of pictures of that time that shows and/or describe all the elements of the movement. We could portray racial discrimination as a horrible thing and give it a cool name that’s really persuasive and creative. We could also write words or phrases like “hate” and “war against humanity” on the poster that portray emotion (pathos!) to influence the reader as well. To top the whole project off we could make a mini version of it and hand little “flyer” sort of things to people at BYU to share what we have created.
Ok… here goes. For our class project, I think that we could create a website/guide thing that helps people get on campus jobs. I know that when I was looking for one I didn’t even know where to start and everything was incredibly overwhelming. Plus, those who live out of state have way less of a chance of getting an on campus job because they don’t have a chance to come basically sell themselves to employers before the semester starts and all of the jobs are gone. The BYU jobs website is stupid too, pretty much the only jobs that are posted on there are the ones that no one wants, and even then, applying to those jobs is pointless because so many people apply for them once they have been posted. I hate all of the mechanics surrounding job searching and I want something that might even out the playing field a little bit.
DeleteThe audience is obviously BYU students, but I think it should be mainly geared towards freshman because the upperclassman already have more connections for jobs than the freshman do.
I think it would be helpful to have it both on paper and online. Having it on paper is good for advertising and its easier to get people to actually utilize our services if they are online. So we could give out flyers at NSO week and send out emails to incoming freshman for advertising.
We would need many people to accomplish this as it would be a website that would be getting a lot of hits every day by desparate freshman looking for jobs. We would need someone who was good at making new websites and also someone creative to design it. These types of websites have to be easy to use or else people just give up on them. The material posted on the website actually has to be helpful- not just the cast-off jobs of the upper classmen. We would also need someone with advertising skills and expertise in order to actually get word about the site out.
Abby Christensen
ReplyDeleteThe best thing I thought of would be to make our own line of cards. Kind of like Hallmark. We could have three categories like love, funny and birthday (in reality, we could have as many or as few as we wanted). We could then divide into groups and have one group write what’s on the inside and one group find graphics or even make our own. Once done, we could print off a bunch and write them to our families or friends back home.
We could also do something that involves who we are as individuals. There are so many unique things about each of us—why not celebrate that? (Sounds cheesy I know, but bear with me) What if we made a giant collage? Each of us could bring five to seven things that we like or that represent us like magazine clippings, candy wrappers, things we’ve written, pictures, drawings, posters—basically anything that can be glued onto a flat surface. We could have everything form into a shape like a huge “Y” or something. It could pretty much be as big as we wanted. It would also be cool if we could go over the entire thing in sharpie with words that describe ourselves. Kind of half-baked, but just a thought.
Myra Lai
ReplyDeleteOk I completely forgot about this what the freak. But hey! I’ve got an idea in mind! I say we do something related to ice-cream. Ice-cream is awesome all year round. It’s awesome to eat it in the cold, it’s still awesome to eat it in spring, and it’s so amazingly cold and delicious to eat in in the summer. And it goes with so many other desserts! Well, ok we could do on like, half ice-cream and half froyo. We should do like, different mini projects. For example, taste tests. Is gourmet ice-cream really better than store-bought kinds? Back home, the local newspaper did such a test, and most gourmet ice-creams did not make the cut! Only one brand was discernibly better. The rest were actually just as good as the store-bought kinds. It would be so fun to try it out for ourselves! We could also make a video on how to make ice-cream. And you don’t need an ice-cream maker to do it. Pretty sure. And we could try and make our own flavors! Take a stab at making different flavors like the kind we get at the Creamery or something. We could experiment what kind of desserts go best with ice-cream. This is making me really hungry. Not good. Well ok so we could also try and make a visit to an ice-cream manufacturing facility or something. And try and make a documentary of it. Wouldn’t that be cool??
Main audience would be anyone who loves ice-cream basically. I’m so biased haha. Well I think anyone would be interested. But yeah, there’s a higher probability that ice-cream lovers would be more interested in whatever we’re doing.
We’ll probably need video experts if we’re going to do the documentary. Photographers to document out taste tests (and make everyone jealous at the same time heheh). We don’t need taste experts, just willing stomachs and tongues. Ice-cream is meant to appeal to the masses after all, so we don’t need experts to do the test for us. We’d probably want someone, or a few people, who’s good at multimedia stuff. I think we should set up a website and put up our findings and experiments and all the cool stuff we do. it’s also easy to get a wide audience on the web. I like the tumblr platform
This world is plagued by suffering and pain, wars and loss. We are the rising generation, the soon to be rulers of the greatest country this world has known! We have the power to change the world, to fight for peace, and to make a difference in the lives of kids, just like us. We sit in class and whine about the paper we have due the next day or the five tests we have to take in one week. Well what about the kids that have had their opportunity for an education ripped away? And on top of that have to run, fearing abduction and being forced to become a soldier in the rebel army. The war in Uganda has taken its toll on the country. While strides have been made in the peace talks, the communities and schools have been destroyed. The supplies needed to educate the youth are scarce. What if we could help?
ReplyDeleteFour filmmakers from California took a trip to Africa and ended up in Uganda. They were horrified by the stories they heard and wanted to let the world know what they had seen. They made a film called Invisible Children and it inspired many to take action. They made a non-profit organization and youth all over the United States banded together to make a difference. They started a program called schools for schools. It is a simple way for us to make a difference. We would be assigned a school in Uganda to raise money for so that the kids there would have an opportunity to learn. We have a bright future, and they should too.
Let’s let the campus know that this is out there, and join the cause! Passion is contagious; so let’s spread it around. We would need people to work a video camera, and edit the video. We would need to people to start and run a Facebook page. We would also need people to write an article for the Daily Universe. We would also need people on communications. People to get the idea cleared by the school and talk to the people at Invisible Children to get the program started here at BYU. Once the program is here we would need a sales team to sell the bracelets and T-Shirts. We would need people to head the fundraising.
Pretty sure my idea is the least creative one out there... yep. Also, I'm sorry this is late. I think I am always late.
ReplyDeleteI like the thought of doing something happy—not political, or depressing… I think we see enough of that already. And I don’t know about everybody else, but I don’t really need anything else weighing me down right now. So my idea is simple! I thought maybe we could just make a collective book of happy poems or short stories from students in our class. Actually, scratch the happy poems part. It could be any kind of poems … they don’t have to be necessarily happy, as long as they just don’t make me cry too much. I think that the audience should be everybody. I know that is super broad, but if the goal isn’t to persuade anybody of anything, or inform anybody of anything, but instead just to give readers a break from thought (aka, entertainment)… then I think anybody should be able to read it, cause everybody could use it! Some of the poems or stories might be simple enough for elementary school kids, some of them might be a little bit deeper, and need the sophisticated mind of a teenager or adult. I don’t really want to put too many borders on it. The project would include every student in our class, because everybody would need to contribute to the contents of the book. Our class is not super big, so each student could include a few poems, or a few stories, or a few of both; at least one of something. To make our book even more happy, we could enlist the help of all willing artists in our class to draw pictures or borders, to illustrate our book. If we wanted, we could just have each student include an illustration with their writing; all levels of art skills can be welcome, because I think variation is happy! (And sometimes, I think those people who say they “can’t draw” make some of the cutest drawings) :). We would need somebody or somebodies to compile all of the entries in a printable way. .. and somebody who knows how to turn it into a book. And somebody to design a cover. Then we would have a happy book containing some literary works of our awesome writing class, preserved forever! It could be great. Potentially. :)
My idea for the class project is a board game. I don’t yet have any idea what kind of game it would be or any of the rules, but I think that a board game has a lot of potential. Obviously, we would have to create the actual game. Beyond that, however, anything is possible. I think it would be a great idea to create some merchandise surrounding the game, such as shirts and, if possible, mugs and key chains. That sort of thing. We could also create a website to go along with it. On this website, we could have a way to order the game and any merchandise that goes along with the game. We could also have an electronic version of the game available online that people can play for free to see if they want to buy the real version. I think it would be really cool if we could make some kind of book or short story about some kind of mythology behind the game. If we wanted, we could also put this online so that people can read about the story behind the game that we created. Really anything is possible. The main audience can be anybody that we, as a class, decide it should be. I really don’t have any ideas in mind for the type of board game that we should make, so this is completely open to the class, but I would suggest that we make something simple enough that a 12-year-old could play. The main skills required to pull this off will be creativity. We will need a great deal of it from the entire class in order to create an entire board game completely from scratch. Beyond that, we will require artistic ability so that we can design any merchandise that we may want to create. We will also need somebody who is able to create a website if we pursue that route. When we decide what to do, I think that we should do so based upon the declared abilities of everybody in the class. If we have a lot of people who are good at drawing, then we should do lots of things that require art, such as T-shirts and maybe posters. Personally, I would love to make a website. Overall, however, I think we need to decide what to do after we poll everybody’s abilities in class.
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