This activity helps prepare you for your digital story project by using Mozilla Popcorn Maker to create what Yancey (2002) calls “pop-ups.” These pop-ups “allow the (new) composer to use the primary text as a way of engaging with and thus generating new material…” (p. 65). The primary texts each group will be engaging with are the digital stories, Deep Water and Progression. This activity will help you to analyze:
- audience
- purpose
- context
- ethos
- pathos
- logos
- production strategies
By practicing recognizing these strategies and rhetorical devices, you will be better equipped to think about them when you are creating your own digital story.
Activity
- First break up into groups of 3-4, then decide whether you want to work with Deep Water or Progression
- Next, go to Mozilla Popcorn Maker. When you get to the site you will copy and paste the URL of your chosen video into the program.
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- After you have pasted in the video, begin playing it and then using the pop-up function to annotate and take notes on the video. Here is an example:
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- After you have carefully annotated for each of the categories I have mentioned above, your group will then present your findings to the class. We will then discuss what was successful or unsuccessful in these videos.
