Category: Collaboration

  • Today, my team presented the initial deliverables to Jill. (Chris was at a conference.) We had our team name, team logo, prototype logo, concept, design brief and mood board. She approved it saying that the timeline and the logo needed finessing and the rest of it was in an unfinished state, so it was a…

  • I am exhausted. This week has been full of due assignments. I don’t remember what all was said in the critique. One girl said that the text was one the screen longer than the time she needed to read it and it irritated her. I have irritated someone with my video. It’s true that she…

  • (this is for a made up album featuring the photograph(s) of an electribe/monotribe, a collaboration with the photography department) 1)    Thumbnailing: It’s interesting how the teacher commented how we weren’t ready for critiquing these thumbnails because the lack of typography sketches. How developed do thumbnails need to be? Every boss has a different standard, I…

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfj3fQ_PE1o For more information about this project, check out last week’s post. Marc (during Friday’s critique) asked my team how we ended up with this idea of cities and IT for this New Media video. I said “visual analogies” because it’s what gave Chris an eyebrow raise and he said that’s interesting during our concept…

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfj3fQ_PE1o Project overview: produce video about 90 seconds long, in teams of three, PSA for an assigned Seattle Central Community College department, the video to be screened at a fundraiser, projected on a wall,  other music will be playing. (read: convey story without audio!) , 1 day to concept, 1 week to storyboard,  1 week…

  • My New Media team of three (including me) worked on our storyboards for the video about Information Technology. (See last week’s post for details.) Today would be the second time I almost cried from a critique. The first time Jill looked at some underdeveloped thumbnails and called them useless and said that if I wanted…

  • New Media’s First Assignment of the Quarter, due in 3 weeks Informational Video 1-3 min. 90 sec, ideal. Program featured: SCCC’s informational technology department, which includes web design, operating systems (cisco) and networking. The pitch: Project: Information Overload: Information Technology at SCCC Description: Journey of students and teachers, connections they make, the tools they use.…

  • Meeting, the Film project (for more on this project, check out last week’s blog post) Co-directing this project with Pete, we learned a lot about the value of good vibes on the set. The amount of beer and silliness inherent in the production led to a great experience with friends in an interesting situation. The…