social media

Life at UMW

Jess

Life at UMW from Jessica Reingold on Vimeo.

For the course Communications 310: Social Media, I worked on a viral video project called “Life at UMW.” The goal for this project was to work with a group to create a video about life at the University of Mary Washington and try to spread it around the internet as much as we could. The project also included a point system where we got points for shares/retweets/reblogs, likes, and views that way we could compare our success with our classmates’ groups. For this project I filmed parts of the video, interviewed students for sound bites, and edited the video.

2015 UMW Multicultural Fair Teaser

Jess

For the course Communications 310: Social Media, I worked on the social media campaign for UMW’s Multicultural Center’s event, the UMW Multicultural Fair. UMW’s Annual Multicultural Fair is one of spring semester’s highlights on campus and in the Fredericksburg community. 2015 marks the 25th annual Multicultural Fair, and so along with a team, I wanted to get everyone on campus and in the community excited about the fair. I made this teaser video as part of the social media campaign for the fair, and we shared it across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Views Are My Own: Digital Identity

Jess

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:

  1. What is a digital identity?
  2. How many different digital identities do you have? [if more than 1 continue to question [if only 1, go to question 5.]
  1. Which digital identity is your least favorite?
  2. Which digital identity is your favorite?
  3. What is your digital identity (your favorite one) like? How would you describe it/them?
  4. On a scale of 1-5, 5 being the same person to your real identity(personality) how similar is your digital identity to you?
  5. Why do you make your digital identity this way?
  6. 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