Cuerdas. "Strings"

Even though this short film is in Spanish, it speaks for itself. One day it showed up in my timeline on Facebook from a family member who shared the post. After watching it I shed a few tears :( Im sharing this video with you guys to get you into your feelings.

Process of making the Multimodal

I have never used YouTube editor, which made it a lot harder to edit the video. Once I figured out how to upload each video, it was only a matter of playing around with the edits. Once I finished adding the transitions my video was only at 22 seconds. I was sure the project had to be at least 30 seconds. I decided to google a picture of textbooks, and a I chose the picture with a textbook that has a "used" sticker on it. I felt that the image gave a hint to the solution of buying expensive textbooks. It's cheaper when you buy a used textbook, or when you rent one. I used the same picture in the start and the end of my video. The filter I used in the end was called haunt. It sounded fitting because I am haunted by these expensive textbooks.

Interviews

I decided to interview two of my close friends, and three co-workers. When I asked them if they wanted to be apart of my video, they all asked, "What is it about?" I wanted to capture their reactions first rather than their answers. Everyone was interviewed separately without anyone knowing what the question was going to be. These recordings were taken on the first shot, no one had time to rehearse their answers. I found it quite amusing to see them so nervous, but their reactions was what I was looking for.

Introduction to the Multimodal

So after having a hard time writing the microtheme, the multimodal is assigned. I didn't really know how creative I was going to get with the topic of my microtheme. I thought of changing my topic and do my video on something else. However, it was highly encouraged that we stay in our topics. My first idea was to go and record in the Lewis bookstore. I just didn't know what emotions were going to come out from that. Dr. Kyrbuz gave the helpful advice of interviewing a couple of friends. I decided on taking that approach with the Multimodal.

Microtheme

I didn't realize how hard it was to write this Microtheme until I actually sat down to do it. In addition to it only needing to be a page long, I wasn't sure if it made it easier or harder. I guess I was just overthinking it. Since that's something that I tend to do with most of my assignments. After reading some of the sample essays I started to think of some topics that I thought would be interesting to write about. Then I remembered back in my freshmen year in college, I bought all of my required texts before classes even started. As I was sitting in my first class, my Essay professor was going over the syllabus. I remember he picked up the textbook and said, "To be honest, we won't really be using these." I decided to write my microtheme on students wasting money from buying expensive textbooks that they sometime's don't use in their classes.