Details and Instructions
Together with your team, you will create a documentary film and a collection of multimedia artifacts to communicate a message about your assigned topic.
A documentary is more than a playback of captured video. It is a multimedia production in which a storyteller (your team) combines photos, videos, and audio with interviews, narration, text, and graphics to deliver a message, invoke an emotional response, and suggest action. There are often companion materials, such as a website, podcast, and written materials, which expand the creator's reach to a greater audience. There are social media promotions, ads formatted in video, audio, and still image, and printed marketing materials. Each facet of the production uses meticulously-designed typography, logos, art, and graphic styles to communicate the tone and mood of the content as well as establish brand identity.
Throughout the semester, you will independently create a series of multimedia artifacts related to your team's topic. Over the course of the semester, you will submit at least three artifacts (One from Level 1, one from Level 2, and one from Level 3) by publishing them to your Gretzky Portfolio. Each submission is a potential "building block" that you and your teammates may chose to include in your final documentary production and/or on your Team DT&L Portfolio. To complete the first artifact deliverable, select a multimedia artifact from the Level 1 menu, create it in Adobe Express, and upload it to your personal Gretzky Portfolio website. Along with your artifact, include a text description, in which you efficiently and succinctly provide context for the piece (details below). Share your Gretzky Portfolio link with your teacher and team.
As you work with your team to create your final project, you should share, discuss, and evaluate one another's individual artifacts. Bring together the best artifacts, elements, and ideas to form a cohesive, compelling multimedia production, which you will publish on your Team DT&L Portfolio.
Text Submission Guidelines and Requirements
Describe the artifact, specify your intended audience, and explain your message or analytical viewpoint. Describe how you executed your idea: the technical skills you used, noteworthy design decisions, how you incorporated AI, and any challenges or limitations you navigated. Provide insights into your creative process and chronical your noteworthy accomplishments. Be precise, efficient, and succinct. Write with your Gretzky Portfolio audience in mind: your team, the professor, future classmates and professors, your growing professional network, prospective employers, and future coworkers.
Research and external resources should be represented using hyperlinks. It may also be appropriate to include a source list. See: Lucas on Digital Citation and ShannonWeb Writing and Research.