This fall students from Dr. Autumn Sutherlin’s CHEM 101: Consumer Chemistry class produced short infomercials introducing their subjects to a general audience.
You and your partners will create a 5-8 minute video infomercial about a Green Product. A green product is a product that claims to have little or no impact on the environment. Your final infomercial will explain the advantages and disadvantages of this product over the “non-Green” product it is replacing. You will need to consider things such as environmental impact and the cost of both the Green and Non-green Products.
This is the second year Dr. Jennifer Shewmaker has introduced digital storytelling into her PSYC 401: Psychology Seminar class. Students were asked to reflect on the skills and attributes that first led them to psychology through short media narratives.
As you work through the semester thinking about the career that will be the best fit for you, you will construct a digital story reflecting on Max Lucado’s book Cure for the Common Life. The Lucado readings will focus thinking about your work as a way to live within your God-given calling, gifts, and passion.
Those of you who have been with us in Cornerstone this fall got a glimpse of one of our summer projects. This was our second kick-off film to welcome freshmen to campus and the ACU Core–Kyle Trafton produced “You Are ACU” for us in 2010.
“Counting the Days” was produced by Matt Bardwell and Nathan Driskell, our media production specialists in the Learning Studio, and offered a creative break from our work on the Year One Report this summer. Enjoy.
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Behind the Scenes
The film combines time-lapse photography with a tilt-shift effect and graphics done in post-production. After we premiered the film in Cornerstone, the guys received a number of questions about how it was put together, so Matt walks through how the shots were done with a couple favorites that didn’t make the final cut.
Special thanks to Scot Colley, Kristian Allen, and Joel Swedlund for help getting some of these shots.
Using 20 pieces of spaghetti, a yard of masking tape and a yard of string, 750 freshmen in ACU’s Cornerstone course were given 18 minutes to build the tallest freestanding structure capable of holding a marshmallow on top.
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We worked with Mike Wiggins, chair of the Art & Design department, to design support materials and manage logistics for a design challenge to support his spotlight talk. The experience helped students understand the value of collaboration and creative problem solving in a range of disciplines.
This fall students from Dr. John Ehrke’s section of MATH 361: Ordinary Differential Equations course produced the following video assignments.
