1. Review weekly critiques.
  2. Data exercises.
  3. Midterm discussion.

Midterm: Next Steps

Interim Deadline #3 — Submit by Wednesday, March 8:

  • As a team, build the first iteration of your explainer story. Translate your outline and storyboard into a more realized draft. It’s fine to leave placeholders, or to have rough versions of aspects you’re still refining, but it should feel closer to a publishable version than the pitch or outline. Come to class prepared with a plan for finishing the project and questions or problems you’d like to resolve.

Weekly Critique:

Select one of the stories below to critique — focus on how different storytelling devices were integrated together (i.e. videos, photos, data, video, audio).

  1. Dear Architects: Sound Matters
  2. Penn Station Reborn
  3. Concrete Divisions
  4. ‘A Bullet Could Hit Me and My Kids Anytime’
  5. How Does Hamilton Blur Musical Lines?
  6. What I Saw in Syria
  7. Hiking the Grand Canyon
  8. I, Too, Sing America

Before next class, submit a critique that generally answers the following questions about each piece (fewer than 300 words).

  • Substance: What story was this project attempting to tell? Was it successful? Was the narrative compelling? What scenes or characters most resonated?
  • Form: What decisions did the authors make about what to show and how to sequence the story? Were they effective? Was integrating multiple mediums effective? Compare the experience on a desktop or laptop computer and a phone and highlight any differences and explain if one version was stronger.

Deadline: Submit your critiques on Canvas by midnight on Wednesday, March 8.