The article I read, "Shooting Web video: How to put your readers at the scene", (concerning engaging your video audience) provided me with some great insight that applies to my project, new media and the internet in general.
Video-making should be something that captures the attention of the people watching it. You want to play on their emotions, their interests, their likes/dislikes. This article outlined ways you could achieve this goal and believe you me, I payed close attention.
I think we tend to look past the amount of time and effort that are put into videos we see on the internet. This is something the article touched on and author Regina McCombs argues this fact very well.
"A common storytelling exercise is to state your story in one sentence, using an active verb," Regina advises. Sound advice if I do say so myself. I tried this with the project Christina and I are currently working on.
Many sentences ran through my head, I wanted to use McCombs' advice to make my sentence enticing, to ensure that I can capture the attention of my audience before the film even starts.
I have to say that I would probably watch a video with this tagline: Suicide and depression issues at OSU are commonly overlooked by students and staff.
Overall, a very useful and engaging article that I hope will reflect in the work I present later on.
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