What is a Capstone?

I think to some the capstone is like the grand finale at the end of a firework show (it has to be breath taking) and to others it is just another project. I’m kinda in the middle someplace. I’m not ripping my hair out trying to create some Academy Award winning piece but I’m not approaching this as just a do something funny to get a quick ‘A’ project ether. I decided to take a more serious approach on this project and try to create something that might be able to help someone out there that is struggling in life. This gives my project a higher meaning then just entertainment or amusement. If it helps just one person make a smarter choice then I’ll consider it a success.

I believe that we’re given 2 semesters to work on our capstones because our teachers and the New Media program wants us to have at least one very strong piece that we can place into our portfolios. We’ll have documentation from when the idea was first conceived to the completion of the project.   

Capstone Ideas

My capstone project is going to be a multiple video series targeted at female youth. The title of my piece is called     ‘CHOICES: The Long Road Home’

I had the opportunity to interview some women at the Indiana Women’s Prison and I would like to put together multiple videos highlight the poor decisions that these girls made and the consequences that they now face. The idea is to show these videos to young girls and youth in general to hopefully help prevent them from making bad choices of their own.

 

-my 3 ideas-

 

Idea 1 ‘keeping it simple’

3 separate videos highlighting different aspects of the consequences that one faces after they make poor decisions. I would place these videos on a DVD with a nice menu setup. I would make it a dual format DVD so if you placed it into your computer you could open it as a file and there will be lots of documents and contact information of professionals that can help if someone is having issues. These DVD could be distributed to schools and other organizations.

 

Idea 2 ‘social networking’

I would create awareness by building a Facebook page dedicated to this idea. I would then release one video at a time… maybe a week between each video release; and each week I would provide lots of additional information on the each topic, helpful links and even get some professionals in the field to get on for perhaps a question and answer session.

 

Idea 3 ‘multi-media release’

Create the 3 videos and release one on DVD, another on Youtube and maybe have a live streaming of the last one. After they are all released for a bit I could make all three available on a webpage.