La Mia Stanza
I was teaching the other day in Lahti (Video and Sound 101), looking for a good example for my students and I came to think of this.
It is a small, simple homework I assigned in Aalto University last year, where I asked the students to come up with a thematically coherent story of some kind, maybe tell something about themselves so we could get to know each other better, etc.
Using stills, videoclips, whatever works for them.
Pedagogically, my idea was to give an opportunity to practice VO and audio recording in general — plus give the students an opportunity to play around with the editing rhythm in both audio and the visuals.
One of my Italian exchange students, Andrea Edigi, handed in this little story. I liked it in the beginning, but having seen it now for several times I really, really like it. The audio is very good with beautiful VO, very personal visuals and beautiful mastery of the rhythm in editing — plus the use of multiple media (video, stills and animation) in narration. Considering it was done in one day only, even more impressive.
The other day I was writing a paper on multimodal narration and the possibilities it offers — I should have used this one as an example.
Bravo, Andrea, e stato veramente un piacere ti connoscere e stare in classe insieme. (Hope my Italian spelling is more or less correct… )