More revisions. I don't mind revisions, 'cause I think they're easy. Way easier than writing that first draft. Really, you just have to go through and plug in all of the suggestions you've been given, and then wait a week for some new suggestions. That isn't so bad. I revised both my Audio Tour scripts and my VTS page for Art Exploration, and lemme tell ya, they're lookin' good. We're making an effort to connect our tour scripts by referencing the other rooms (like, "How has art changed in the years between the Renaissance and what you see here in Bay 5?"). Oh yeah, I finally wrote the Bay 5 script, thank God. It's gonna need some revising, as I'm still not quite sure what the hell I'm talking about, but at least I've got something on paper. And the painting we're featuring for the room, Heater and Tub - Pentimenti, is awesome. A pentimento is the visible trace of a part of the painting that has been altered. The artist here intentionally leaves this evidence to show the process of making the painting. Neat stuff.
With my wife's help, I put together our first YouTube video. Somehow, I never learned how to use Photoshop, so she was a big help in putting together the text slides. We found some sweet horror movie fonts (including a Shaun of the Dead font that we used for the Art to Go logo), which she then manipulated to look even better. We were gonna splatter some blood on them, but decided that might be a little too much. The music is from the defunct Indianapolis hardcore band Angelville, whom I got to sign a pretty hilarious, hand-written release form. I'm glad I'm finally getting to do some editing and put all of that Final Cut knowledge I gained this summer to work. Through much trouble-shooting and Google searching, I managed to learn a bunch of other Final Cut stuff in the process of making the video.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Midterm Questions
How am I addressing course options?
TCOM Immersion:
I'm completely immersed in TCOM stuff. I've learned how to use the $8000 fancy camera, gained a basic understanding of lighting, and have spent many hours on Final Cut. Totally immersed in some Final Cut here. Just last night I learned how to do text on that thing for the class' first YouTube video. Oh yeah, we're making YouTube videos now. I'm going to try to do one every week. I'll probably spend some time shooting new stuff, like maybe following a person around for a day, or a certain group that's up to something.
Script Writing:
I've written a couple of scripts for the podcasts we're making for the tour group. They pretty closely resemble the radio scripts we wrote in that five-week pre-TCOM course. I think I'll have a lot more experience in this as the documentary becomes more of a priority. I guess it won't necessarily be script writing, but the organizational element will definitely be there. We're gonna have to sift through a bunch of footage and try to pick some sort of story arc or something out of it, with a beginning, middle, and end. Kind of like sorting through all of your crazy ideas about what a giant shark could do for your giant shark script, except our ideas are committed to tape and can't be changed.
Group Decision Making:
Nearly every decision made in this class is made by some sort of vote or group discussion. Major things, like the name of the site, are put up for the whole class to decide. Smaller details, such as the way a sentence is constructed in a podcast script, are made by our smaller groups within the class. Unlike decisions we might make in a classroom, the stuff we decide on here will be used by the museum for the next decade. So yeah, no pressure.
Writing in the Workplace:
This semester has seemed more like a job than school, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I feel like I'm having board meetings or something. As I said under group decision making, everything we write we run by other people, which I'm sure is how this sort of thing would work if we were being paid to make a website. Also, there is that pressure of knowing that whatever we write will actually be used for something.
TCOM Immersion:
I'm completely immersed in TCOM stuff. I've learned how to use the $8000 fancy camera, gained a basic understanding of lighting, and have spent many hours on Final Cut. Totally immersed in some Final Cut here. Just last night I learned how to do text on that thing for the class' first YouTube video. Oh yeah, we're making YouTube videos now. I'm going to try to do one every week. I'll probably spend some time shooting new stuff, like maybe following a person around for a day, or a certain group that's up to something.
Script Writing:
I've written a couple of scripts for the podcasts we're making for the tour group. They pretty closely resemble the radio scripts we wrote in that five-week pre-TCOM course. I think I'll have a lot more experience in this as the documentary becomes more of a priority. I guess it won't necessarily be script writing, but the organizational element will definitely be there. We're gonna have to sift through a bunch of footage and try to pick some sort of story arc or something out of it, with a beginning, middle, and end. Kind of like sorting through all of your crazy ideas about what a giant shark could do for your giant shark script, except our ideas are committed to tape and can't be changed.
Group Decision Making:
Nearly every decision made in this class is made by some sort of vote or group discussion. Major things, like the name of the site, are put up for the whole class to decide. Smaller details, such as the way a sentence is constructed in a podcast script, are made by our smaller groups within the class. Unlike decisions we might make in a classroom, the stuff we decide on here will be used by the museum for the next decade. So yeah, no pressure.
Writing in the Workplace:
This semester has seemed more like a job than school, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I feel like I'm having board meetings or something. As I said under group decision making, everything we write we run by other people, which I'm sure is how this sort of thing would work if we were being paid to make a website. Also, there is that pressure of knowing that whatever we write will actually be used for something.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Art to Go: Week 6
I was out sick for most of the week, but that didn't stop me from working on my script revisions for the tour. There I was in my hospital bed, looking like a maniac hovered over my mom's laptop with a microcassette recorder to my ear, which I rewound noisily over and over again as I tried to make out what my buddy from the museum had said about the triptych panels in the West Gallery. That thing squeals like a mouse in a paper shredder when it rewinds, and I bet it drove the whole floor nuts. I got a lot of work done and my nurse looked like a younger Sarah Silverman, so all in all it was a productive stay.
I read through the relevant sections of Annotated Mona Lisa to prepare for my revisions. I learned a lot about the difference between Renaissance art and the stuff before it. Renaissance stuff is rounder and more lifelike, due to a better understanding of human anatomy. Also, they were a lot better at painting perspective. Before this, all I knew about the Renaissance was that it happened a long time ago and that the Ninja Turtles were named after Renaissance artists.
I also went to the museum to take another look at the West Gallery and Bay 5. I'm glad I looked at the West Gallery again, because I somehow had every one of my dates wrong. Also I was able to find some examples of pre-Renaissance art to mention in my script. Bay 5 is going to be difficult to write about. Or maybe not. I think it's all post-modern stuff, so I guess I can talk about post-modernism. Whatever that is. I need to remember to talk to somebody who knows something about this.
I read through the relevant sections of Annotated Mona Lisa to prepare for my revisions. I learned a lot about the difference between Renaissance art and the stuff before it. Renaissance stuff is rounder and more lifelike, due to a better understanding of human anatomy. Also, they were a lot better at painting perspective. Before this, all I knew about the Renaissance was that it happened a long time ago and that the Ninja Turtles were named after Renaissance artists.
I also went to the museum to take another look at the West Gallery and Bay 5. I'm glad I looked at the West Gallery again, because I somehow had every one of my dates wrong. Also I was able to find some examples of pre-Renaissance art to mention in my script. Bay 5 is going to be difficult to write about. Or maybe not. I think it's all post-modern stuff, so I guess I can talk about post-modernism. Whatever that is. I need to remember to talk to somebody who knows something about this.
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