Positions through essaying


https://youtu.be/LQU-EyqIX_Y

Final video essay link. This page documents how the video essay developed as a method for making an argument, not only as a container for final outcomes.

Process notes

The essaying stage turns the timetable project into a time-based argument. Editing, cutting, sound, subtitles, paper texture, and screen recordings became methods for testing how a timetable organises time through graphic systems.

The notes below split the Week 6 presentation into evidence of structure, media translation, and feedback-led refinement. The full 6week deck and final written response remain below in their original order.


Selected process fragments

Process fragments from Positions through essaying presentation
Selected PPT fragments from Week 6 video essay development.
  • Opening position: a timetable designs time — The video essay begins from the final position: a timetable is not only a way to read time, it is a way to design time. Source PDF, page 1.
  • Research question refined for video — The question is compressed for a viewer: how does grid resolution change legibility, comparison, and information loss? Source PDF, page 3.
  • References define methods, not decoration — References are assigned jobs inside the video rather than appearing as decoration. Source PDF, page 5.
  • Video structure as organised time — The storyboard turns the video itself into a timetable: each section occupies a time slot. Source PDF, page 8.
  • Each cut carries part of the argument — Archive, rupture, pause, and system define what each kind of footage must do; editing becomes argumentative rather than illustrative. Source PDF, page 11.
  • Creative video experiments — The draft proposes tests with archive fragments, paper, scan texture, and screen material. Source PDF, page 13.
  • Next development after feedback — Feedback clarified the next step: sound, subtitles, paper texture, and citation must all carry part of the argument. Source PDF, page 15.

Full presentation archive

The embedded PDF below is kept as the complete Week 6 presentation record.