Pressure Project 1

For Pressure Project 1 I chose to tell a story about the history of my ancestry. I was quite surprised to find out when I was a teenager that I actually am Wendish and not German. Most people have no idea who the Wendish are and to me that makes me feel unique in a way. I wanted to portray the feeling of where I am happy to know that I am actually Wendish but I have a sense of sadness knowing what the Wendish went through. When I created my Pressure Project I wanted to try to convey a disjointed feeling. I had upbeat music that had lyrics about having no roots and a visual that was showing a unpleasant beginning roots to who I am. I chose to use PowerPoint as I am familiar with this program and did not want to go over the five hours allotted.

When I presented my project I got a mixed reaction to what my classmates experienced. The disjointed feeling was what I was trying to get across and in that I did succeed in what I wanted to accomplish. My classmates were able to understand the story I was trying to convey but many, as I perceived their response, did not respond well to the experience.

In response, I wanted to revisit this project and in doing so I stayed strictly to audio and no visuals. Although I will not be presenting this in class I wanted to go ahead and post it here to allow anyone that would like to experience it to be able to. This was an eye opening exercise that now gets me thinking about how much time I really do spend working on projects.

Note: the link is to a PDF of what was presented in class with the top audio file being the music that played under the PowerPoint. The PowerPoint file is too large to post.  The second audio file is my Response to Pressure Project 1.

DEMS PP1 Media and Narrative