The projects currently on this page are ones I composed for varying purposes. I’m sharing them here as they serve as examples of different strategies for composing in digital media.
Sample Remix
Multimodality of Gender from Amy Goodloe on Vimeo.
This is the “Concept in 60 Seconds” video I made for DMAC 2011.
We had about two days to make these, and they had to explain the concept of multimodality using audio and video from separate sources. I found all the video and audio footage on archive.org, and I made the “girly writing” and “guy writing” myself with screen capture software. I also made the title slides by creating transparent png files and adding them as cutaways.
To get everything to fit within the scope of exactly 60 seconds, I played around with speed settings, but I think I ended up making a few of them too fast (like the cheerleaders). I also had to cut some great clips, and the audio isn’t as smooth as I wanted it to be in places.
But this was the first time I’d ever tried making anything remotely like this, layering audio and video content and keeping it under such tight time constraints, so I certainly learned a lot in the process!
Tools used: iMovie ’09, GarageBand ’09, QuickTime X (for trimming), FLVCrunch (to extract MP3′s out of videos), SnapzPro (screen recording), and Pixelmator (a great P’shop alternative!)
(DMAC = The Digital Media and Composition Summer Institute at Ohio State University)
Sample Digital Story
This is What a Lesbian Looks Like - v.2.0 from Amy Goodloe on Vimeo.
I created this story at a Center for Digital Storytelling workshop, for the primary purpose of providing an example for students in my WRTG 3020 class on the Rhetoric of Gender, Sexuality, and New Media, given that they would be working on such a project themselves (exploring their own emerging awareness of their gender and/or sexual orientation identities).
The example also illustrates a technique that might be of interest to other digital storytellers: using screencasting to capture a live drawing on an iPad. I couldn’t find images to illustrate one small part of my story, so instead I projected my iPad screen onto my MacBook and used Camtasia to record the screen as I drew a simple stick figure in Art Studio on the iPad.
As you can see, I can’t draw, but no one expects digital stories to be produced by professional artists. However, if you can draw, this might be a particularly creative way to illustrate your story, especially if you sped up the recording a bit.
Sample Stop-Motion
A student’s “practice piece” in the Fall 2012 digital storytelling class inspired me to give stop motion a try, and the video below represents my first effort, created towards the end of 2012.
While I’m Away… (stop motion dog toys) from Amy Goodloe on Vimeo.
I made the video by putting my Olympus DSLR on a tripod and taking photos of the dog toys each time I moved them about an inch in the desired direction. I ended up with close to 100 photos, but with each one lasting on screen for only a few seconds, it certainly doesn’t seem like that many!
Before I made the dog toys video, I tried a very simple stop motion animation using a graphics app on the iPad, which allowed me to duplicate layers and then change only small portions of the drawing on each layer. I’m including it here for your general amusement
