Mini Performance Assignment- Family Education Assignment
For this assignment you will write and create a 2–3-minute video performance that answers the question, “What is the story of your family and education?”
Questions you may want to consider when working on this mini performance:
- Many CSUN students are first generation college students. Think about how powerful that is. Many of you in this class are the first people in the history of your family to go to university. What does that mean to you?
- Many of us were told throughout childhood that “you have to go to college” but were given little or no preparation for how to navigate a huge place like CSUN.
- Do you find yourself in survival mode here?
- Are you thriving?
- What would it take for you to thrive at CSUN?
- What does getting a college education actually mean to you?
- What does it mean for your family, for your community?
The Script/Production Concept
Script- is an outline and a word for word script of what you are saying in your performance
Production Concept- describe how you are going to shoot your video performance. It can be as straight forward as “I am opening my laptop and am going to film the story of my birth like a VLOG.” If it a bit more elaborate, then just explain what you are doing. For example, “For this mini performance I am going to interview the person that I learned my birth story from and make an edited 3-minute video.”
This document will be submitted on Canvas.
Performance/Video
Using your phone, tablet, laptop film a 2–3-minute video of “What is the story of your family and education?”
There are different approaches to this assignment, all are valid, don’t compare approach to anyone else, we all have different learning styles.
Option 1-
Some of you will outline you will create an outline to your story. These are the 3-5 things I want to focus on, the story of your name has a beginning, middle, and end. You will shoot your video. THEN you will transcribe your video and that will be your script.
Option 2-
Some of you will write and outline and then write out your story word for word and then shoot your video. It is okay to look at your paper during your video, please try your hardest to not turn on your camera and just read. This is a video performance, strive to be present, engaged, dynamic as you tell your story.
Option 3-
Some of you will turn on your camera, tell your story, with no outline, and then compile your script and production concept. Some of you know programs that co captioning, please feel free to share those with me and I will share them with the class.
