PROJECTS
Martin Luther King Instagram Post ✊🏾
In the first project, I read Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and then remediated by turning into an IG post. Then, I analyzed the post explaining all the different multi-medial modes in project. The specific quote I chose as a caption for the post comes from King’s letter in paragraph 21 where he explains why we, as a human race, cannot just wait for things to change in due time. In this project I used Instagram post to show how effective King’s words would be today and quickly his impact could spark others. If it’s one thing about social media, especially Instagram, it’s very easy to see one’s impact on society and how much and individual means to someone. Martin Luther King, without a doubt, would’ve been a figure for change in social media if it were available in is time. So that is what I wanted to exemplify in this post.
I Am Not A Writer… 🤔
This second project a YouTube channel, vlog style video that explains my preferred style of writing. It was a project where I used multi-modal video to tell my literacy narrative and how experiences in my past have influenced the way I feel about writing. The reason I chose this style of video is because I interpreted the assignment as something that needed be for my peers. So that’s who the audience was for in this video, as it contains many vlog style details and modes that YouTube users are known to use. Because of our generation’s overuse social media YouTube vlogs are very popular amongst us. I was going for something a little awkward at first by establishing this is my first video but then showing confidence and flow as I began to just tell my story and open up to my viewers. I wanted to create a personal feeling as many YouTube vlogs do. They make you feel like you know the person and are interested in their life.
Freshman Production Remix 🎸🌈🤟🏾
This perhaps my favorite project, which is surprising because when I first got the assignment I wasn’t even slightly enthusiastic. We were to use the special collections in the Library to remix a story about Longwood’s history. I remember just flipping through scrapbooks and searching the yearbooks for a bunch of things that didn’t interest me. Until I hit this page in the ’74 yearbook that had the script from the Freshman Production in ’71. Then, I searched to see what I could find about the tradition called “Freshman Production” to see how big of deal it was. I cam across a Rotunda article that previewed the same production from the same year. So, I thought it would be cool to advertise the Freshman Production but with my own twist. I decided to make a rock-festival style poster from the 70’s but one that advertises a return of the Freshman Production, using the same script and feel as it did in the 70’s. I was just going for a nostalgic feeling for any alumni or elders in our community as well as a lively festive feeling for any typical college student like myself.
