This is a draft version of a mini open source documentary we are putting together about Otago Polytechnic and its open educational resources and practices. Please help us to improve it by identifying errors or making suggestions. We’ve had a headache with camera codecs not matching up with the editor, so any compliments would help with production moral as well 🙂
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February 24, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Jared Stein
I dig the style of this. Visually engaging.
Only one real suggestion: further lower the music volume when folks speak, as that audio’s a little hard to hear. There seems to be a quiet bit in the song when Terry Mahler first speaks, which might be looped in when anyone’s speaking.
Love what you guys are doing and the idea of a documentary on your efforts is satisfying.
February 24, 2009 at 9:00 pm
bronwyn hegarty
You’ve done a great job so far Sunshine. It sure looks cool and gets the message across loud and clear. great pics and scenes and music. a couple of blippy things with the voice and lips not matching e.g. jean but mostly looks really interesting. I really like sarah doing the thing on the whiteboard! Shows people that the weather in Dunedin is hot! spelling – veterinary nursing needs fixing. yeah yeah I know it is a draft. How many more interviews do you have and how long will it be overall?
One thing I am not sure about is the heavy blocks of text. sort of distracts from the speaker.
February 25, 2009 at 9:29 pm
urt
There doesn’t seem too much substance, so far – we have a bunch of people who obviously subscribe to a positive vision of open education resources – they certainly seem happy enough, but overall it doesn’t feel like there’s much information being shared.
As it stands – it comes across more like a branding exercise than a considered discussion.
Some of the editing could be a wee bit distracting.
February 25, 2009 at 9:48 pm
susan
continuity could improved on I suggest to provide some context with a series of talking heads – what about sub headings categorised by the questions people were responding to.
February 26, 2009 at 7:24 am
leighblackall
Thanks URT, I agree, it does come across that way. Thing is the video had to balance the wants of a range of people – particularly the organisation (outside Otago Poly) that funded it. They want celebrations of “best practice”. Along side that there is our internal need of trying to grow the OER take up. In saying all that, and in answer to your suggestion Susan, we will be publishing the source material as well. That’s the fuller interviews from each of the people we interviewed. Unfortunately we had dramas with the camera not having an external mic input!! so our levels suffered, but its audible. In those fuller recordings are the fuller responses, including answers to a question, “whats wrong with OER?”. We hope these recordings will display the discussion aspect you are referring to URT, and we’ll be sure to subtitle the questions that are being answered. Thanks for the comments.
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