Sunday, November 26, 2006

Morning x4

For our video assignment, Mandy, Tamara, Susan, and I continued Mandy and Susan's audio assignment, "Morning in New York."

In Week One, we planned our attack: we would film each of us waking up and getting ready for the day in our own apartments. Then later, then we would all meet on the subway.

As with many ITP projects, we were over-ambitious in the beginning. Once we actually began filming during Week Two, we scaled back and decided not to go uptown to my apartment or to midtown to Mandy's apartment. We filmed my waking up scenes in Susan's apartment, and Tamara's neighbor let us use her apartment to film Mandy's scenes. The shoot took most of one Saturday, but we also goofed off some, too. We also eliminated our original plan for all four of us to meet on the subway, as we were unable to find a 5th person to act as camera-person that afternoon.

Week Three - we edit. I had no idea that capturing our footage (and logging it) would take so long. One of the best things about our group, however, was that all of us took turns doing every part of the work. So even though it took longer, we each got a variety of experiences in the process. I must confess that I missed part of the editing meeting. Literally 10 minutes before we were supposed to meet, I fried my computer with the damn Arduino. I met with my group anyway for the first part, but then I was having a break-down and had to go deal with my fried computer. So Mandy, Susan, and Tamara finished without me (thanks ladies --- you were soooo good to me that night).

View the web-friendly version on Susan's blog. She claims that I should be able to save a copy of it and post on my blog, but it seems as though I have to have QuickTime Pro to accomplish such a task.

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