The goal in Module 2 is
to create your Mixtape from those contributions.
What is a mixtape? The
term first came into use in the early 1990s, and refers to a compilation of
songs that were put together, usually on low-cost cassette tapes, and passed
around to friends. Increasingly, mixtapes have become one of the primary
vehicles by which hip-hop artists promote their new work. While improvements in
DIY technology make it difficult to differentiate mixtapes from albums, the
mixtapes tend to be self-created compilations that artists might distribute to
radio stations, music producers, and to fans at concerts. For more on this
specific understanding of mixtapes, you might want to check out this site:http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape/news_feature_021003/
For this project, I’m
going to define mixtape a little differently, and allow you to create a
compilation of original songs, poems, videos, photos, art pieces, narrative
writings, or essays that are organized around a key theme or argument relevant
to this history and development of hip-hop.
Here's what I would like
you to do:
1.
Choose six to ten
entries from the Historic Timeline that you would
like to use in creating your mixtape.
2.
Use those entries to
compose one of the following:
1.
A series of short songs
(each about 1:30-2 minutes in length).
2.
A set of poems or short
narrative writings (each about 250-500 words, or 1:30-2 minutes in length, if
you wish to prepare these writings in a spoken-word style).
3.
A video (with 1-2
minutes devoted to each entry).
4.
A set of
graffiti-inspired art pieces (one per entry, with a short caption of 25-50
words).
5.
An essay of
approximately 1,500 to 2,500 words.
6.
An alternate option that
you discuss with me in advance.
7.
The format for your
mixtape will vary, of course, depending on the choice of media. I have included
links to a number of digital storytelling tools below that you might want to
experiment with. If you choose to use one of these tools, please submit the URL
for your project to the Dropbox so that I can access it. Other acceptable
formats would include Microsoft Word documents, Powerpoint presentations, MP3
files, and podcasts or videos uploaded to YouTube (please send me the URL).
The mixtapes are
due Sunday, March 16.
Digital Storytelling
Tools
Guidelines for how I
will assess your projects
The goals of this assignment are for you to practice synthesizing historic events into a thematic narrative in a creative and intellectually engaging manner. I invite you to have fun and be creative with this project while remaining attentive to the standard academic practices of engaging in research, thinking critically, and citing sources effectively. Your work will be assessed on the basis of:
1.
Your level of participation
in creating the Historic Timeline in the Mixtape wiki.
2.
The quality of research
in both your timeline contributions and your mixtape creations.
3.
Attentiveness to the
mechanics of grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and use of proper citation
practices.
4.
The level of originality
and creative experimentation in the overall work.
Conclude Module 1 with the creation of your first story project
for this course. Over the first four weeks
of the course, we have experimented with some story tools and discussed the
qualities of what makes a strong story. In Week 5, I would like you to put
those discussions to use and create a story on a topic of your choice using
Storify: http://storify.com/.
You may revisit the personal story you introduced in the opening
Discussion Forum for this module. Or, you may choose a story that is entirely
different. Whatever choice you make, please consider the following points:
* The story's premise.
* The seven steps of story structure, and how they might be adapted to the digital format.
* The other nine principles of story form described by John Truby.
* The seven steps of story structure, and how they might be adapted to the digital format.
* The other nine principles of story form described by John Truby.
Storify is a free Digital Storytelling platform. Here's a link to
their tour to help you understand how it works: http://storify.com/tour.
Here are links to Best Practices using Storify:
1. David Burdick's Best Practices for Storify http://www.daveburdick.com/w/storify-best-practices-live-examples/
2. Ivan Lajara's Best Practices for Storify: http://storify.com/ivanlajara/storify-best-practices
1. David Burdick's Best Practices for Storify http://www.daveburdick.com/w/storify-best-practices-live-examples/
2. Ivan Lajara's Best Practices for Storify: http://storify.com/ivanlajara/storify-best-practices
the assignment gives you
options to choose from ... choose which is easiest to complete for the mixtape.
i would suggest focusing on women in hip hop. so search 6 things on wiki to
help you and use them.
one assignment is
building a story from web articles and pictures.
thats from the digital
story telling class.
thats from a website
called storify
where you would build
the story
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