Week 9: Content Development

To educate students in the University of Hawaii about energy conservation we're creating a competition to encourage lower usage of electricity..

In our project milestone last week in ICS 414, we finished up and packaged our deliverables to show what we had accomplished. We were also split into different groups to work toward new things. I am currently in the content development group. We create videos or any type of content that will inform the students of the Kukui Cup Dorm Room Competition how to play, activities, and possibly information on energy literacy.

This week we decided on starting on the idea of making a video for the game Energy Pong. Jack Mack my teammate had come up with this idea which is a more acceptable version of Beer Pong. Energy Pong Wiki I have created the wiki for the video. It's not much now, but I have laid out the specifics of the video we want to make.

As we started on content development, I had to think about what exactly we would need. Professor Johnson provided some good wikis for us that gave us an idea of what a screenplay was and how the video process looks like. I followed that process. I hadn't thought about before but video making and screenplay writing does require a linear process. I wrote up the screenplay and had to learn how to detail segment by segment on what the person sees. I described each segment and what it is about.

On my research with videos I came across an original video about Beer Pong. It was interesting and gave me some ideas for the requirements. I don't know why it didn't occur to us, but we do need an extra cup for rinsing the ping pong ball when it falls to the ground! Gross.. For those who don't know what Beer Pong is, google it. The rinse cup idea is very logical and of course makes sense now that we know it.

I think I'll need to learn a lot more about video making. I don't have that much experience with it. So I'll research into that next.