Michelle and I began recording the audio tour today. Or, rather, Michelle recorded it while I videotaped her and tried to soak up as much ProTools knowledge as possible. She wasn't kidding when she said that isn't a very user-friendly program. There are all of these buttons you have to press just to get started, and a bunch of other stuff that just seemed unnecessary. I'm used to using Cool Edit Pro, where you just press record and do your thing. Cool Edit can get a little difficult to learn when you get around to adding effects and doing other weird stuff, but it's nothing like this. I dunno, maybe it just looked harder than it is. I'll find out next semester.
We recorded both Laura and Michelle's friend Austin. It went a lot faster than we thought it would, as Beth has told us horror stories about the time she recorded some podcasts and it ended up taking a million takes. Michelle had the idea to just leave the tape running and every time a line gets flubbed to wait a few seconds and re-read it from that point, to be all edited together later. I think this saved us a lot of time, and I heard some of her edited tracks and it sounds seamless.
Because we had so much extra time, I decided to mess with Laura while she was recording for the benefit of a future YouTube video about the Audio Tour recording. I'd wait until she was having a good take and blow my nose or eat a bag of chips. One time I fell down and Michelle beat me up.
And I made another slide show:
Monday, November 9, 2009
Art to Go, Week 10
Cool, I got a new video assignment. Beth wants me to tape a bunch of people making art in art classes for a video that's going to be in the How Was It Made? section of the Art Exploration page. Katie was a total champ and gave me the names of a bunch of art teachers that I could get a hold of. A few actually got back to me, so I set up some times to go visit their classes.
Since some of this stuff went down during week twelve, which is reserved for talking about all of the awesome stuff that I've done, and since I'm seriously writing this nine hours before my exit interview, I'll just skip ahead a couple weeks and write about what ended up happening. I went to a photography class with Loretta and got some shots of enlargers and people in the darkroom, and I also went to this class where people just got to do whatever they wanted, so I got people doing several different types of art in there. I went to a sculpting class, too. But that was it. Not really enough for the whole video. So then Katie was awesome again and went to the art building with me to weasel us into a bunch of classes. She also used the camera and got a bunch of good shots, many of which ended up in the video.
And then, some other week, I went to the drawing pictures of naked people class. Luckily, the instructor had the dude keep his clothes on while I was there. I don't have my hard drive for some reason so I can't post the video right now, but here's a link:
http://bsu.edu/artinsight/art_exploration/How_Is_It_Made/production.html
Also, we had lunch with Judd Fisher of the Edmond and Virginia Ball Foundation. He was a nice guy. The salad was really weird, though.
Since some of this stuff went down during week twelve, which is reserved for talking about all of the awesome stuff that I've done, and since I'm seriously writing this nine hours before my exit interview, I'll just skip ahead a couple weeks and write about what ended up happening. I went to a photography class with Loretta and got some shots of enlargers and people in the darkroom, and I also went to this class where people just got to do whatever they wanted, so I got people doing several different types of art in there. I went to a sculpting class, too. But that was it. Not really enough for the whole video. So then Katie was awesome again and went to the art building with me to weasel us into a bunch of classes. She also used the camera and got a bunch of good shots, many of which ended up in the video.
And then, some other week, I went to the drawing pictures of naked people class. Luckily, the instructor had the dude keep his clothes on while I was there. I don't have my hard drive for some reason so I can't post the video right now, but here's a link:
http://bsu.edu/artinsight/art_exploration/How_Is_It_Made/production.html
Also, we had lunch with Judd Fisher of the Edmond and Virginia Ball Foundation. He was a nice guy. The salad was really weird, though.
Art to Go, Week 9
John Dalton came in today to talk to the documentary group about editing and stuff. It was awesome, because I've never taken a video class so this was all new information for me. For example, I didn't know I was supposed to fade in at the beginning of a video, or that a dissolve indicates time passing.
Also, he showed us Animoto, a website that makes little slide shows for you. They're really easy to create and should be good for keeping the YouTube site updated regularly. Here's the first one:
The tour group met this week. More revisions. But I love revisions. I'm fulfilling my Scriptwriting credit like crazy. And Writing in the Workplace.
Oh yeah, Kelly, Maddy, Loretta and I all went to the museum to take some pictures for the etiquette PowerPoint. Maddy and I dressed up as "Bob and Sue," a coupla fifties dudes that always try to eat pizza and take naps on the stairs at the art museum. I didn't really understand what we were doing until we got there. I was just told to dress up like a fifties dude. So now there's gonna be a bunch of pictures of me on this educational website that's marketed to high school students with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in my sleeve.
Also, he showed us Animoto, a website that makes little slide shows for you. They're really easy to create and should be good for keeping the YouTube site updated regularly. Here's the first one:
The tour group met this week. More revisions. But I love revisions. I'm fulfilling my Scriptwriting credit like crazy. And Writing in the Workplace.
Oh yeah, Kelly, Maddy, Loretta and I all went to the museum to take some pictures for the etiquette PowerPoint. Maddy and I dressed up as "Bob and Sue," a coupla fifties dudes that always try to eat pizza and take naps on the stairs at the art museum. I didn't really understand what we were doing until we got there. I was just told to dress up like a fifties dude. So now there's gonna be a bunch of pictures of me on this educational website that's marketed to high school students with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in my sleeve.
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