Digital Documentary 20% Due: 12.

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1 Skills
Compose a digital documentary, using the technical skill and rhetorical design strategies
learned in class to engage in a critical conversation about your documentary topic.
2 Goals
Compose a digital documentary that incorporates appropriate and effective visual rhetorics
and genre conventions. The documentary may be formally argumentative or more creative
and abstract. However it must have a cohesive topic and rhetorical goal.
3 Requirements
1. The documentary must include each of the four digital assets created in class, plus at
least two more assets in the modalit(ies) of your choice.
2. The documentary must effectively use the website created in your last assignment as a
shell.
3. The documentary must use and cite Creative Commons licensed material beyond just
that material used in your digital image assignment.
4. The majority of the material in the documentary must be material your produced
yourself in one of the modalities we composed this semester.
5. There must be some incorporation of alphabetic text into the documentary.
4. You must substantially document your composing process visually and
textually/auditorily. E.g. several screen captures with a brief written explanation of how
you composed using that program; a short video of you creating and talking about your
creation, a couple of photos of your workspace with captions explaining how you worked
and what you did. This must be submitted to the Carmen dropbox with the final
documentary on 12.6.
5. You will submit your documentary for peer review on the Denney Mac drive in our
classroom on 11.20.
6. You will submit the digital documentary revision plan to the Carmen dropbox with the
accompanying peer review worksheet on 11.22.
7. You will create grading criteria for your documentary in the same format I have used all
semester (at the end of each assignment sheet), and drawing upon at least 2 elements from
one of the rubrics Ive graded you on. It must include grading criteria for both form
(aesthetics) and content (argument). If thoughtfully created, I will use this rubric, in part, to
grade you.
8. You will submit a cover letter explaining your rhetorical and aesthetic choices in the
documentary. This should be longer, fuller, and better than any other cover letter you have
written this semester.
9. You will submit the final digital, the grading criteria for your documentary, and a 1-2
page cover letter explaining the rhetorical choices you made in your documentary to the to
the Denney Mac drive in our classroom on 12.6.