1. concrete seating area behind Lincoln Hall... may serve as a meeting spot or a place to find one's Muse.
2. water fountains in front of Alice Campbell Alumni bldg... may serve as a place to gather & celebrate or a place to mourn & weep.
3. alley next to the Big Fat Sandwich Co... may serve as a drug trafficking locale or a scene where suspense rises
4. fraternity on Third & John... may serve as a chapel of some sort or a place to confess sins.
5. Education bldg... may serve as a jail cell or concentration camp
6. Courtroom in law bldg... may serve as a place for intellectuals to gather & present a case to the judge (we may be able to obtain a gavel)
7. walkway next to Allen Hall (leading to Lincoln Ave.)... may serve as a scenic route or a pathway where two people can engage in intimate conversation since the sidewalk is pretty long.
8. Construction next to Armory (down Fourth St.)... may serve as a scene where co-workers wearing hard hats interact or just enjoy the simple pleasures of work.
9. Swimming pool on 8th floor of 309... may serve as a scene that depicts summer & fun, could be a place where strangers meet, or a place where a child tragically drowns.
10. The roundabout hallway inside the south entrance of the English Bldg... may be taped in a manner to give emphasis on repetition or point out a recurring ideas. Also, this is a good location to shoot two people who are standing across the hallway from each other with a wide gap in between.
11. Overpass connecting the Tower at Third and the parking garage... may serve as a transition into a city scene (equivalent to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge)
12. A view from a certain height inside the Tower at Third... may serve as a place to take an aerial shot of a city. It looks even more like Chicago at night time.
13. Financial Aid bldg... may serve as an office or headquarters of some sort. The building itself is made of glass windows, so we can even shoot a scene going on inside from outside of the building.
14. Caribou Coffee inside County Market... may serve as a meeting location or a place where a job interview could take place.
15. Hallway leading to Graduate Library inside the UGL cafe... may serve as a shot where people can walk down the halls in the background and make the setting look natural.
16. Pillars outside the English bldg... may serve as a scene from Greece.
17. Krannert art museum... may serve as a scenic background when shooting city life images.
18. Business Instructional Facility... any of its rooms can be used to shoot a classroom scene. Also, we can shoot an aerial view of a scene happening on the main level (open area) from the 2nd floor balcony. We can shoot people walking up and down the stairs from halfway across the building, too.
19. Ditch near tennis courts by Allen Hall (on Dorner)... may serve as a war scene (kind of emulating the trenches during WWII)
20. Patio behind ISR... may serve as a backdrop to show a social setting that exists behind a person's home. Also, it could be used as a place to hold family gatherings.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Intertexts (Ede & Lunsford)
1. What is your take on group projects at the collegiate level? Should professors step away from encouraging shared authorship through group work?
2. Why do you think individualism has become a part of the post-Renaissance culture? What events or ideas revoluntionized independent thinking and rightfully (or selfishly) taking credit for one's own work to the point where authors fight over whose name appears first on the insert or title page?
3. "Reconstruction does not imply a return to a lost state but rather an alternative conceptualization of the experience of subjectivity, enriched by the chastening experiences of the
last century." This quote written by Thomas C. Heller & David E. Wellbery was meant to reconstruct the word, "individualism." Can individualism be something more than taking ownership of one's present work? How does an individual taking authorship of a work have anything to do with the past?
2. Why do you think individualism has become a part of the post-Renaissance culture? What events or ideas revoluntionized independent thinking and rightfully (or selfishly) taking credit for one's own work to the point where authors fight over whose name appears first on the insert or title page?
3. "Reconstruction does not imply a return to a lost state but rather an alternative conceptualization of the experience of subjectivity, enriched by the chastening experiences of the
last century." This quote written by Thomas C. Heller & David E. Wellbery was meant to reconstruct the word, "individualism." Can individualism be something more than taking ownership of one's present work? How does an individual taking authorship of a work have anything to do with the past?
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Response to Nick's Q
Q: What kind of documentary would you prefer to make? Do you think more can be achieved with a documentary than with the simple presentation of facts? Why or why not?
A: I would love to cover live footage of lifestyles in third world countries for a TV news station or do some personal filming to make into a documentary. It's not all that easy trying to give a fresh look at an issue like poverty or warfare because of the overuse of images portraying malnourished children in Africa or babies with missing limbs. Movies such as Schindler's List (covering footage from the Holocaust) presents the facts in the form of a documentary (Jews are being incinerated & burned alive in concentration camps), and the visual provides a poignant effect. A documentary serves as a vehicle that processes reality. A documentary is most effective when it takes an emotional approach that helps the viewers connect with the story, whereas a Powerpoint presentation, for example, remains as flat and dull as the screen it shows up on.
A: I would love to cover live footage of lifestyles in third world countries for a TV news station or do some personal filming to make into a documentary. It's not all that easy trying to give a fresh look at an issue like poverty or warfare because of the overuse of images portraying malnourished children in Africa or babies with missing limbs. Movies such as Schindler's List (covering footage from the Holocaust) presents the facts in the form of a documentary (Jews are being incinerated & burned alive in concentration camps), and the visual provides a poignant effect. A documentary serves as a vehicle that processes reality. A documentary is most effective when it takes an emotional approach that helps the viewers connect with the story, whereas a Powerpoint presentation, for example, remains as flat and dull as the screen it shows up on.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Making Analogs of Reality (Hampe)
1. What was the author's purpose of reminding us, "Some ideas just aren't visual ideas. They belong in an article, or a pamphlet, or a speech, or a recording, or a wall poster." What should we keep in mind about how to capture footage as we start our video project?
2. Have you or a friend ever gotten great footage on video for the purpose of making a point, but it didn't play back the right way or couldn't be edited without desroying the original footage altogether? What made you realize the evidence simply wasn't there?
3. What is your take on filming visual images where nothing happens? Do you think the "absense of activity" can bring forth a compelling message? (i.e. man sitting still in a chair, a child sleeping) Or should these scenes be cut out from the video/documentary altogether?
2. Have you or a friend ever gotten great footage on video for the purpose of making a point, but it didn't play back the right way or couldn't be edited without desroying the original footage altogether? What made you realize the evidence simply wasn't there?
3. What is your take on filming visual images where nothing happens? Do you think the "absense of activity" can bring forth a compelling message? (i.e. man sitting still in a chair, a child sleeping) Or should these scenes be cut out from the video/documentary altogether?
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Converting Youtube clips into MP3
1. Copy the YouTube URL you want to use.
2. Click this link here.
3. Paste the YouTube URL into the bar labeled "Enter YouTube URL."
4. Click the blue "Go" button.
5. Look below for an orange link that says "Download MP3." Click on it.
6. Follow the green text that says "Click button below to download MP3" (inside the gray bar)
7. When it asks to save the file, save it into iTunes.
The YouTube clip is now in MP3 format & ready to use.
2. Click this link here.
3. Paste the YouTube URL into the bar labeled "Enter YouTube URL."
4. Click the blue "Go" button.
5. Look below for an orange link that says "Download MP3." Click on it.
6. Follow the green text that says "Click button below to download MP3" (inside the gray bar)
7. When it asks to save the file, save it into iTunes.
The YouTube clip is now in MP3 format & ready to use.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Response to Megan's Q
Q: Shipka seems to suggest that the final product may not be the most important component in a project but that authorial intent must be taken into account? However, many people might only see the final product and not know the authorial intent. Do you agree with Shipka? Or do you feel that without knowing about the author the audience does not get the entire experience?
A: Jody Shipka makes a valid point that the author's intent/thought process isn't always manifested in the final product. That is why it's important for there to be an analysis and reflection time after attempting to create a project using activity-based multimodal compositions. However, if the author's intent is far removed from the actual representation or model of the project, then the author may need to RETHINK the way he/she presents the piece to the audience. After all, one component of these activity-based multimodal projects is to find a way to COMMUNICATE with the audience members. Thus, the final product should be complex enough to show a thought process that is new and enlightening, but it should also keep the components and combinations that make up the piece simple to follow.
A: Jody Shipka makes a valid point that the author's intent/thought process isn't always manifested in the final product. That is why it's important for there to be an analysis and reflection time after attempting to create a project using activity-based multimodal compositions. However, if the author's intent is far removed from the actual representation or model of the project, then the author may need to RETHINK the way he/she presents the piece to the audience. After all, one component of these activity-based multimodal projects is to find a way to COMMUNICATE with the audience members. Thus, the final product should be complex enough to show a thought process that is new and enlightening, but it should also keep the components and combinations that make up the piece simple to follow.
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