Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Art to Go, Week 8

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.

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