Keyword Video Ideas – Audience

My keyword is audience. I’ve been bouncing back and forth between ideas, but got some inspiration after leading class on Thursday and discussing the article “Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy” by Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford. The article discussed two main audience roles – audience addressed and audience invoked – and explained the difference between the two. I will most likely use some of these points in my video. I have also been reading some works on audience by Peter Elbow. I have come across some good techniques and ideas concerning audience from Writing With Power, by Elbow, and will also be using a couple of other articles, but am still deciding which ones. I am going to try to make a PowerPoint presentation, combining points from Ede/Lunsford, Elbow, and possibly some other sources. Along with the PowerPoint, I have been working on video clips concerning different audience roles named in the Ede/Lunsford article. These roles include self, friend, colleague, critic, mass audience, and future audience. I’ve been trying (and hopefully will find all by Thursday) to get each of these different audience roles on video, using different activities and atmospheres, so I can splice them throughout the PowerPoint presentation. I think with both video and key points, this should be an effective and entertaining way to convey the importance of audience and the different roles it plays depending on the situation. I’m also going to try to put in some nifty music and a couple of audience movie clips that I think would fit really well and spice things up a bit, but this depends on how well iMovie and I actually get along! So far it seems to be slow going as this is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this. Once I actually figure out what the heck I’m doing, I think this is going to be really fun, but at present, it kind of feels like I’m beating my head against a wall and getting nowhere. Yes, I am almost completely computer illiterate; I admit it. I like my MS Word and my Internet, and the rest of ye programs be damned! Ha Ha. But I’m getting there. Slowly but surely I hope to figure it all out by Thursday, hopefully in a lightning burst of knowledge that brings much but causes little pain.