Project Report - Weeks 7 & 8

—What’s going well?
It's crunch time! In the last two week, things for the most part have been going super-well. St. Joe's has an awesome video team who has been doing above and beyond by going to various off-sites and gathering footage. We watched most of the footage on Sunday and it is really exceptional. We hit a snag when the board was giving luke-warm feedback on the logos we submitted but if worse comes to worse, we can still provide a graphics manual using the old logo, so even though some time was spent on creating new logos that may not be used, it is of course a learning experience.

—What’s not going so well?
A lot of the work entails the video. Unfortunately, I'm not overly interested in video production which is the reason I never took and editing class. However, I feel I am familiar enough with using a timeline in various editing software to be well-rounded as a New Media Student. Also, am having a hard time making connections between a video and the rhetorical analysis of text and image. However, I'm looking on the bright side of working with an awesome group who has made me more interested in video production. It would be nice if the class was scheduled in one of the CDM labs downtown so we could have acesses to all of the equipment available. I know it isn't NMS equipment downtown, but I know many of us students have taken classes down there because that is typically where the production part of our liberal studies have taken place.

—My specific contributions include a new logo submission of the holy family, creating a business card, and editing 120 photos and resizing them for the website. I also attended the viewing session on Sunday evening.

—What are your goals for next week?
My goal for the upcoming weeks are to be involved in writing the narration script, helping lay down the audio bed, and continuing to work on images so they can be used in montauges in the video. Fortunatley, I can edit images quickly and efficently so that they can be spliced into the video at a hypothetical moment's notice.

—What resources or help do you need from your project team, class, or instructor?
More time!! The quarter is coming to a close and between my other course and a massive project at work, there is only so much time left so hopefully we can pull everything together by the last minute. I feel bad because I do no live in the city so to meet-up outside of class time is near impossible for me. A lot of this work really needs to be done in person due to file size contraints, the impersonal nature of communicating on-line, and the knowledge-base that is more easily shared in person. Furthermore, a lot of time in the begining of class time is taken up by critiquing the city farm project. At this point, i think it will be more benifitial to just do a final critique at the end of the course and devote more in-class time to working with our groups since it is hard to syncronize schedules.