Creating this project was one big challenge not only for the directors but also for each and every member of this team. We all knew it was going to be something totally worth it but in order to accomplish it, required a lot of sacrifice and open mind. I felt that this group was unlike any other. I have never been part of a fifteen person group to work a final project, but hey, in New Media that's what it takes. I beleived that the only way to succeed in this was to be creative, listening but also giving advice, being ready to learn knew things as well as to master those things you already knew how to do, and most importantly, responsability.
My part in this project was to assist Brock and Samie in Louie's interview, to conduct past NMC student interviews, record voice-overs, and finally create/edit the music for the final credits.
In Louie's interview my job was to film Samie and Brock doing their jobs. We thought it would be cool to get some behind the scenes stuff, but also to have in the record some footage of NMC students actually working. I also took some shots of Louie during the interview from different angles since Brock had his camera on a tri-pod and had only one angle.
Conducting the interviews for past NMC students was a great experience. I came up with ten different questions that basically asked what they think New Media is and how far the The NMC program at Oregon State has gone. They were delighted to have been included in this project and came up with some great, very usefull responses and quotes.
Recording voice-overs was a challenge but a great experience. Me and Tom had no idea how we were going to do this due to the fact that we had never used ProTools before, we weren't at all familiar with the software. So Laura was kind enough to show us around the studio and the software. We still don't master the software but at least we have a head start and were able to record everything with no problem. The voice-overs we recorded were quotes from current and past NMC students that Samie and Ryan pulled out from the interviews, some great, well thought out quotes.
My final part in this project was to create music for the ending credits. I mean create, because we were not able to find the music that we wanted without it being professional music being promoted. So here was another challenge because I had never before used the software, SoundtrackPro. It turned out to be a fairly easy software to use, however very time consuming. I actually fell in love with the program due to the fact that I love music.
So to wrap things up, personally this was simply a great experience! Having sixteen minds including Pam's, throwing out ideas and working together was fantastic. You have to keep in mind though you will always find minds that collapse against eachother just because they have different point of views ,and this is definetly the ultimate challenge any group especially this one had to face. However, every point of view is that extra help needed to accomplish the goals set, but also to look back in the end and say, "it was worth it."
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Anatomy of Tweet: Twitter Gets a Style Guide
I think this can be very interesting to people that rely and use twitter every minute of their lifes. I also think this could also help news corporations to clearly know what they are allowed to post and what they are not, just in case something doesn't feel right to post. Any question or doubts people have about the website, purchasing the book will definitely help them get easily around the website.
Jenna Wortham, author of this article mentions that Mr. Sagolla, author of the book, says that previous publications about Twitter have nothing to do with this new publication "140 Characters," he says, "this book is an attempt to create easy rules for sorts of networking sites, including Facebook." So again, people that are addicts to social networking, Facebook users, etc., will be able to look back at this book and figure what is right to do and what is not legal to do in this website. Also they can pull out tips on how to use the website in a better way.
According to the article, Mr Sagolla says the book will be available online through itunes by the end of February. The reason they are going to release it only through Facebook for now, is so they can get some previous feedback before printing the actual copy and also to attract interested publishing houses. I think this is a great idea, I beleive people are going to like having access to it online and paying a decent cheap price for it. Getting a sense of what the book is about, so in the future they can have a hard a copy if they liked it.
Jenna Wortham, author of this article mentions that Mr. Sagolla, author of the book, says that previous publications about Twitter have nothing to do with this new publication "140 Characters," he says, "this book is an attempt to create easy rules for sorts of networking sites, including Facebook." So again, people that are addicts to social networking, Facebook users, etc., will be able to look back at this book and figure what is right to do and what is not legal to do in this website. Also they can pull out tips on how to use the website in a better way.
According to the article, Mr Sagolla says the book will be available online through itunes by the end of February. The reason they are going to release it only through Facebook for now, is so they can get some previous feedback before printing the actual copy and also to attract interested publishing houses. I think this is a great idea, I beleive people are going to like having access to it online and paying a decent cheap price for it. Getting a sense of what the book is about, so in the future they can have a hard a copy if they liked it.
How to Present While People are Twittering
According to the article Tamar Weinberg posted on the webiste"Pistachio," a survey of leadership conferences show that people are communicating via blogs and twitter during conferences. Personally I beleive that in a way this method is better becasue now people don't have to whisper to each other, interrupting the speaker, however, people staring at their computers throughout the whole presentation is irrespectful to the speaker. You are at a conference to listen to someone very important speak, not to communicate with your laptops, you could do that later.
This leads into what Weinberg says about how the speaker has to adapt by speaking to what they call a "back channel," people looking at their computers instead of looking at the actual person speaking. How would a speaker adapt to this its my question. Why not instead, if people aren't going to pay direct attention to the speaker, conduct the conference via internet. in this way they can play with their computers as much as they can without irrespecting anybody.
The article shows how the back channel can be benefit from this and also how the speaker can get soemthing good out of this.
Benefits of the back channel inlcude; the audience gets more content, the audience can participate and innovate, you can conncet with people, you can do something else. This few benefits I pulled out from the article are what I beleive it's total crap. You don't need to connect with people during a live speaker presenting to you. You can easily have a blog of paper to jot down notes so you can creat and innovate, making it look more professional that having to stare at your laptop the whole conference. Beleive it or not the computer somehow will distract you even though you might not think it does.
On the other hand, benefits to the speaker include; typing means you're provoking interest, you'll get immediate feedback, they won't fall asleep. Again, I think this is crap. You can jot down notes on a sheet of paper, you could tape record the conference, many ways you could show you are interested instead of staring at your computer. The speaker won't get immediate feedback, they already have the presentation set up.
This leads into what Weinberg says about how the speaker has to adapt by speaking to what they call a "back channel," people looking at their computers instead of looking at the actual person speaking. How would a speaker adapt to this its my question. Why not instead, if people aren't going to pay direct attention to the speaker, conduct the conference via internet. in this way they can play with their computers as much as they can without irrespecting anybody.
The article shows how the back channel can be benefit from this and also how the speaker can get soemthing good out of this.
Benefits of the back channel inlcude; the audience gets more content, the audience can participate and innovate, you can conncet with people, you can do something else. This few benefits I pulled out from the article are what I beleive it's total crap. You don't need to connect with people during a live speaker presenting to you. You can easily have a blog of paper to jot down notes so you can creat and innovate, making it look more professional that having to stare at your laptop the whole conference. Beleive it or not the computer somehow will distract you even though you might not think it does.
On the other hand, benefits to the speaker include; typing means you're provoking interest, you'll get immediate feedback, they won't fall asleep. Again, I think this is crap. You can jot down notes on a sheet of paper, you could tape record the conference, many ways you could show you are interested instead of staring at your computer. The speaker won't get immediate feedback, they already have the presentation set up.
Final Project Update 3
Last thursday me and Tom with the help of Laura, met at the music lab to record voice overs of past NMC student quotes. It went really well. Laura showed us step by step on how to use it. The equipment is top of the line stuff. I liked it so much taht I left interested in learning how to use the equipment at its fullest.
Sunday at 5:30 is the meeting. We are going to go over what everyone did this week and put it all together. Also, we are going go over our runsheet to see what is missing and how it's coming along.
Sunday at 5:30 is the meeting. We are going to go over what everyone did this week and put it all together. Also, we are going go over our runsheet to see what is missing and how it's coming along.
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