Week 5 Assignment: Video Exploration // Things I Like

1. Video exploration using a template

The video I chose to interpret is titled the Scared is scared, by Bianca Giaever.

Bianca has a gift for interviewing people and creating videos to go with their stories.
This video is narrated by a little boy, Asa, who tells a story of a bear and a mouse.
The bear and mouse do a lot of things, but the point of the story is to know what to do when you feel scared.

Asa explains that the scared (feeling) is scared of the things you like. So when you start to feel scared, you can let that feeling go by thinking about the things you like.

The following is Bianca's interpretation of this part of the story in which she shows the things she likes:

Here is my interpretation of the clip, showing things that I like:



I HIGHLY recommend that you watch the full film which you can find here. It is ten minutes long, but every time I watch it, it makes me so happy and I am reminded by how wise and funny kids can be. It definitely makes me excited about a future of doing creative things with kids.

2. If you look back at working on a project with your peers: How does technology-learning lend itself to be explored collaboratively? Think about this process and make 3 connections between media and classrooms or communities.

1. Online classrooms: Technology is now used to create online classrooms in which students can learn from a specific professor or university without needing to go into a physical classroom.
2. Connecting people of different cultures: In one of our Artistic Development classes, we had a guest teacher visit us and she told us about how she connected her students with another group of students from Guatemala. They talked and shared artwork over Skype. This made me really excited. There are so many opportunities for learning here.
3. Google Drive/Google Docs: Since being back in school I have discovered the power of Google Drive and Google Docs. Because we have had so many group projects and each group member has a different schedule, these programs have helped me to stay connected with people and work on the same project together without sending it back and forth. 

3. Research two artists who have used video creatively. Describe what makes their approach unique or interesting.

1. Bianca Giaever: Although Bianca has received a lot of praise for the Scared is scared, she has done much more than just that. She has a gift for interviewing people and getting great stories out of them. Most of her films are narrated by someone telling a story (always someone different) with her interpretation of the story as a film. Most recently she got picked up by NPR to do a short series of videos. You can watch the first one here. Bianca is particularly inspiring to me both in her story telling abilities but she certainly has an eye for video.
2. Rachel Ryle: Rachel is an example of someone using Instagram to get her work out there. She specializes in hand drawn illustrations turned into stop motion films. She got a lot of recognition when she won an Instagram contest for Starbucks, when they asked "What would you do if you won free Starbucks for a year?". Since then I've been following her account. She is a self taught artist and has only been doing animation for a little over a year.