cs92 - ps111 storyboard
Justin Bailey, Finn Smith, Ry Wharton, Christina Yen
playback image
editing image
Overview: To allow students to create multimedia analyses of political advertisements. The software will consist of two main modes: playback and
editing.
- Playback: The playback mode will allow students to view an annotated
political ad. This will consist of a quicktime movie with markers at
specific points in the movie. Markers will illustrate the different
aspects of a political ad. The student will be able to play back the
ad in two different ways. The first mode will simply display the ad without
annotation. The second mode will pause at each marker to display the
information it contains. Once the student has read the information they will
press a button to continue playback.
- Editing: In editing mode a student will be able to construct their
own analysis of an ad. Editing will have a similar interface to playback, with
the addition of a several elements. There will be a marker button which will
allow students to place markers at points in the ad. Additionally, instead of
simply displaying the information for markers, the interface will present
editable fields so that the student can write their own text.
- Aspects: The seven different aspects of political ads which we
have identified come from Darrell West's book. They are: visual images, visual
text, sound and music, editing, color, voiceovers, and code words.
- Markers: Each marker will consist of a basic set of data. These
data types are: the time in the ad the marker appears, a title for the marker,
the aspects of the ad the marker discusses, and the analytical text of the
marker.
- Index: An additional interface element will be an index of the
markers. This will be a scrollable list of the markers currently associated
with the ad. It will display the time where the marker appears, the title of
the marker and the aspects of the ad it addresses. By clicking on a marker in
the index, the movie and display will be updated to show the information
of that marker.
Tools: We expect to use Director 7 to create a Shockwave
presentation. Additionally, we will use Quicktime to display the movies.
Assessment: Currently assessment is an issue that we are somewhat
unsure about. There are several different issues here as to whether the
students should create their files on local media or their creations should be
stored in a central server or database. Currently we need to look more closely
at the tools we are thinking of using to determine the feasibility of these
different ideas.
Last modified: Sun Mar 19 14:55:46 EST 2000