What This Project Is

This blog project is, ultimately, something that I am doing to get a grade; it's my final project for WRT 400: Writing With Video. The assignment asks us to produce a project in which text and video interact, essentially to combine writing with video as the course's title suggests. My first idea was to create a website that followed a "choose your own adventure" format with videos embedded as the end result, but after a conversation with a fellow classmate I shifted to the idea of instead doing the website in a question/answer format and asking for video responses rather than textual. After speaking to my professor, I realized that a blog would be the best way to do this in a timely manner so I could have the several weeks' worth of results I need. Rather than trying to tackle some bigger than life topic which would require research and potentially yield boring results, I decided to focus on something that sits at the very center stage of my life right now: graduation.

College is a big deal, and in less than six weeks it's ending for me and many of my friends. This blog is about the final days of being a senior in the class of 2010 at Syracuse University. It is not only to be about my experiences, but about the experiences of anyone who wishes to contribute--so long as they are a 2010 graduate**. I want your opinions, your rants, your fears, your desires... and I want them in video format. If you don't have a webcam or a digital camera that takes video, that's fine. But I know most of you have gotta have some kind of camera access, from cell phone to laptop. It takes just minutes to record a response, and I *know* you've got something to say. So, please, let your voice be heard!

I will be posting a weekly "prompt" blog, roughly every Sunday, from now until May 2. That gives you a whole week to record a response and either post it in a comment to the blog post or email the video to me (jocember @ gmail dot com) if you can't figure the whole uploading thing out (but it's pretty easy, I suggest using youtube or vimeo.com). And don't hesitate to respond to an old prompt if you stumble upon this blog after a week has gone by--I'm collecting them until the very end. There will probably be other posts throughout the week, just to make it more blogly and less class projecty. Feel free to respond to those, too (minus the video).

I will be using the tagging feature to make it easier for you to find the prompt posts, so check the right-hand sidebar for the "prompts" tag if you're getting here late. If you have any questions, please comment with them!


**While I could open this up to include the many graduating seniors I know from colleges across the country, I think it would be best to keep the focus on those of us at SU, to help the blog stay relatable.