For the final project for the course History 471D: History of the Information Age, my group and I decided to make a documentary about digital identities. We interviewed UMW students and staff in order to see what people at UMW think a digital identity is and how their digital identity may differ from their “offline” identity. We conducted twelve interviews that involved about eight questions:
- What is a digital identity?
- How many different digital identities do you have? [if more than 1 continue to question [if only 1, go to question 5.]
- Which digital identity is your least favorite?
- Which digital identity is your favorite?
- What is your digital identity (your favorite one) like? How would you describe it/them?
- On a scale of 1-5, 5 being the same person to your real identity(personality) how similar is your digital identity to you?
- Why do you make your digital identity this way?
- Which do you prefer? Your digital identity or your in person identity?
Our questions turned out to be more like guide lines instead of strict questions, however, since the interviewees tended to answer more than question (without knowing) within their answers. Once we had conducted our interviews, we edited the documentary together using iMovie and Final Cut Pro in the Media Lab in the ITCC (Information & Technology Convergence Center) at UMW. Since we had twelve interviews to go through, we could not use everyone’s answer for every question, so we picked the most unique or common answers for the final version of the documentary. We took on quite an ambitious task, and after about seven to eight hours of editing, it turned out great! We are very happy with the final product, and although the video is already sixteen minutes long, it could have been much longer.
We want to also thank Andy Rush in DTLT (Division of Teaching and Learning Technology) very much for letting us use all of the production equipment including a light kit, a lapel microphone, a camcorder, a DSLR camera, and a green screen.
Tools Used
iMovie
Final Cut Pro
QuickTime
YouTube
Google Drive-Google Doc, Google Spreadsheet
Doodle Poll
Canon HD Camcorder
Canon EOS Rebel T5 DSLR Camera
2 Tripods
Green Screen
3 LED Film Production Lights
Sennheiser Lapel Microphone
BenSound Royalty Free Music
Incompetech Royalty Free Music
