Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Painting with Light

Painting with light ended up being a fun assignment. We had so many different ideas, so it took a lot of time and effort, but I think it was worth it. From dresses of light to the Absinthe bottle and accessories, we were all over the board.

My teammates: Jonathan Hinderliter, Pinar Istek, Sarah Midgorden and Allison Ziemba made this more fun than I originally thought it would be.



Thursday, April 15, 2010

Multiple Flash

Multiple Flash was actually easier than I expected. Once it is setup properly, it's hard to mess up. Unless your synch cord falls out... =/

However, apparently, I can't burn CDs, because I added the wrong edit of the final high resolution select to the folder. I cropped one of them to see how it would look, but I ended up deciding it looked better uncropped. So, I now know I need to slow down with my cd burning. I had the right one the lab computer, but I didn't add it to the selects folder.



At the Pack 5 Pinewood Derby last Thursday, Nevin Dubinski, a Wolf Cub, Braxten Denny, a Boy Scout, Shelby Johnson, a Tiger Cub, Ollie Fox, 2, Justin Denny, a Wolf Cub, Issac Young, a Wolf Cub, Ben Fleming, a Wolf Cub and William Hawkins, also a Wolf Cub, watch the ongoing race. The Cub Scout were competing to move on to the next level of competition, which is the Boonslick District Derby on April 24. The top three from each den, both in design and speed.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

dba_andea (Audio Slideshow Research)

http://mediastorm.com/0024.htm

For this assignment, we had to look around the web and try and find an audio slideshow that we thought was well done or needed work. Intended Consequences, by Jonathan Torgovnik, is about Rwandan women who experienced the horrors of the 1994 genocide in their country. I feel like this one is well done. It is tragic, but also, uplifting to see how far these women have come since that horrible 100 day period, 16 years ago.

They had to watch family members be butchered in front of them, and then have another crime inflicted upon them. That crime is rape. Most of the women feel alone and unwanted. They feel as if they've lost their dignity and self-respect. Some even cannot bring themselves to love the children that is the product of that rape. It is a little long, but I think it is a good project. The music, photographs, interviews, graphics and video all flow together perfectly.