Screen Story Rationale

My screen story had many different elements to it. Some of these different elements were actual footage I filmed, footage from movies or commercials, and footage that involved using a still background, a green screen, and a toy character that was telling a story. I will break up each section of the video up and discuss the purpose of using certain things such as voice overs or transitions when I did as well any positives or negatives that occurred.

The first scene of the video begins with a short clip from the upcoming movie, Terminator Genysis. I chose this movie because my screen story was designed tell its audience about robots and how integrating robots into our society is not a good idea. Terminator comes into play because it is a fictional movie about artificial intelligence becoming too powerful and fighting back against its creators. A person then wakes up from the dream and tells his friend while his friend tells him that it wasn't a dream. This scene used images to portray the narrative. I chose this technique because I wanted to grab the viewers attention quickly with a scene that is easily recognizable. Audio doesn't come into play until a character says, "that wasn't a dream". I added this scene to add suspense to the video.

The main narrative for the rest of the video is audio with some visual images sprinkled in. Examples of audio are when Lt. Dan is talking with pictures of Ray Kurzweil in the background, as well as Lt. Dan speaking with other backgrounds behind him, such as a terminator, roombas, and RoboCop. My initial plan was to have all of these backgrounds be videos instead of still images but the movie making software that I used, Camtasia, did not produce the effect that I wanted. For whatever reason, whenever I used a video as a background, the video lagged and only played piece by piece. In the end, I'm glad I was forced to use still pictures as the background because this allows the viewer to focus on the audio and instead of getting distracted by gunfire in the background. The first scene of pictures did use a little bit of imagery because I used arrows to point out Ray Kurzweil. Another example of this is when I circled the roomba. I still used small clips from RoboCop and Terminator but those scenes were for enjoyment purposes to make the video more interesting as opposed being in the video for educational purposes.

The tone of the video is serious because many of the important audio that is heard is based on real life things such as Ray Kurzweil, a roomba, and a humanoid robot created by Japanese scientists. The elements of the video that are most responsible for conveying this tone are the Ray Kurzweil scene and the Roomba scene. These two scenes are mostly factual and included to talk about some research that I did online.  The video is also serious because Lt. Dan discusses how robots could take jobs that are currently held by humans and he says not to allow this to happen.

Live Tweeting

Before I discuss my live tweeting experience, here is a link to my twitter so that all of my tweets are available.

https://twitter.com/alexhayes15

The event that I chose to do for my live tweeting was National Signing Day for college football. The fact that I love football and that Gators football is my favorite thing about UF factored in to my decision on what to live tweet about. It was an enjoyable experience because the Gators did better in recruiting than many expected. I was also given an excuse to go into Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in between classes (more about this discussed later) which is always a great experience, even if there aren't 90,000 other fans screaming and yelling. One thing that made National Signing day an easy event to tweet about is that information on recruits could be found anywhere. Every sports website had something on each recruit and all of the major sports networks were covering it. This was great because I was able to hear many different viewpoints on the recruits and whether or not each recruit was ready to succeed at the next level. One of my favorite parts of national signing day is where ESPN has coaches and recruits do interviews. This is where fans learn the most about expectations for the coming years.

A difficulty about live tweeting during National Signing Day is that NSD lasts all day and its very easy to miss information on a recruit because new information comes out so often. For example, I had class on NSD so there were some moments when I had to focus on note taking and wasn't able to constantly refresh Twitter or sports website. Luckily, during this time not much happened for the Gators, recruiting wise. Another difficulty was that my phone battery doesn't last all day so I was in danger of running out of battery by late afternoon times. Now onto some specific tweets that I made.

 

When I look back through my tweets, this picture of the video board in the stadium is my favorite. I consider the stadium to be my favorite part on campus and love that people could go into the stadium and see the gators future players.

 

Not many of my tweets got retweeted or favorited so my tweets weren't successful in that regard.

This tweet was successful because one of my followers favorited it. The purpose of the tweet was to show that even with a good recruiting class this year there was still room to improve. The gators didn't use up all of their scholarships so next years class will be even better because it will have more scholarships to give recruits.

This tweet was important because many experts expected the gators to have a poor recruiting class after a second straight below average season. Instead, the gators reeled in two 5* prospects, one of which was CeCe Jefferson. This commitment ensured that the gators would surpass expectations. This also showed how good of a recruiter Jim Mcelwain is and that he will be able to do so much more with a full year of recruiting next season.

 

For one tweet, I took a screenshot of the rankings. I enjoyed this tweet because it showed how far up the rankings the gators moved up on national signing day (44 spots).

 

 

 For this tweet I went to the other side of Twitter and decided to retweet someone else instead of expecting others to retweet me. I retweeted a tweet from top recruit Martez Ivey.