Welcome to the blog post for my maker project “witness to history”. This project was the first maker project we did during the coronavirus so I had no idea what to expect. Despite not being able to go to school this project turned out to be a huge success! With that said let me tell you all about what we did, what I liked, where I struggled and most importantly my answer to the driving question “How can we, as video storytellers, tell stories of our community during this period of physical distancing?”. Let’s get right into it. 

My connection to the ski community.

For this project we were tasked with creating a video about a community we were apart of and how the coronavirus affected it. I chose the ski community as it is a huge part of my life and has also been affected by the corona virus more than most community’s. But before we could start our video there were a few more things I had to do. I had to do a lot of research regarding the ski community and corona virus itself. We also got to make our own composition for our video. 

My song

The combination of a relevant event and something that I feel connected to made this a really interesting and enjoyable project. I also enjoyed the challenge of making my own music for the first time.  This was also a place in this project that I really struggled because unlike my class mates I had never made music before. I had to do lots of experiments along with watching some videos on YouTube to finally settle on a song I wanted to do.

My story board

Now let me tell you my answer to the driving question and how the milestones leading up to this blog post helped make answer the question. We, as video storytellers, can tell stories of our community’s during coved through videos that show the struggles and successes were facing and give advice and solutions to fight any big problems the community is facing. This my sound like a complex answer so let me break it down. Basically what I’m saying is to tell a story about our community in this time we have to show the good, the bad and what to do about it. I can either to this conclusion thanks to all the milestones but especially milestones 2 and 4 as these were the milestones that I did the most thinking in. Milestone 2 is what helped me come to the first part of my answer to the driving question. From doing the research that I realized that to tell an honest story through video I needed to talk about the good things and the and things just like other reporters were doing. Milestone 4 is when I was planning my storyboard and I realized that the ski industry and community was also trying to lay down the solutions to our problem so I would have to add those to my answer. 

For milestone five I shaped my whole video around this answer to my driving question. I did that by structuring my video with laying out the good thing, problems, and the solutions in that order. By doing this it conveyed my answer to the question quite well and I think you can see this in my final video. 

In conclusion, this was a great first maker project to do in quarantine. It was both interesting and challenging and I definitely learned a lot. Thanks for reading my post and stay tuned for more!