Process Memo - Final Project

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."