April 24 - Editing - 10hrs
Zoe and I decided to get as much done today. We cut down all the interviews and in the process realized a lot of the lower thirds had typos. This really slowed down our progress along with certain interview subjects being under the influence. Someone in Zack Bailey's interview was drinking beer so we had to pan and scan in order to take him out of the frame. Another time we had to pan and scan was during Ora and Tyesha's interview at the afterparty. While I was booming I was unaware that I was casting a shadow on Tyesha's face while trying to get Ora on mic. This is the price I had to pay for trying to get the best possible sound possible. Next time, some lav mics would be more effective, if the environment was not as loud. I think Interviews at the afterparty are doable as long as they arrange with the after party coordinator to make sure there will be an area that will not only have enough light, but sound good enough with mics.
April 25 - Editing - 4hrs
Zoe and I continued editing and would have completed it had a producing class not entered the editing lab. We narrowed down the keynote panel's answers in order to make the interviews appear to run more smoothly. We also included some title cards which could be used to help transition between questions, which also makes it less confusing because they are now answering questions.
April 26 - Exporting Interviews - 3hrs
Zoe and I completed the interviews today. The last thing we did was add room tone to the interviews with the Visionary Panel, and audio transitions to the interviews at the after party. The rest of the time was spent exporting the videos.
May 1 - Upload Interviews to Vimeo - 2hrs
Today I uploaded the videos to vimeo. I don't know what else I can say about that.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Week 15 April 17 - April 23
April 20 - Transfered Files - 1hr
I decided to transfer the files from the orange Lacie Drive to the black Visions Archive so Zoe and I could work on the interview edits with the Archive drive in case somebody else needed the orange drive.
April 22 - Editing - 3hrs
Zoe and I first began the daunting task of editing by organizing the files and syncing the footage with the sound. This ended up taking a good chunk of our time and we became exhausted and decided to continue the next day with fresher eyes.
April 23 - Editing - 6hrs
The next day Zoe and I attempted to edit again. After getting the most expensive breakfast from Waffle House, we began our 6 hour journey of cutting down the interviews. Initially we began by removing Zoe's questions. This cut out a lot of time, but we still needed to cut out more because the interviews were still longer than we wanted so we ended up cutting them down even more. We eventually started to make them focus around 2 questions, the Visions Experience and Tips for other Filmmakers. We started with Caleb and Emily's interview, and we immediately regretted it because Caleb was clearly drunk and the biggest struggle was trying to make him sound sober. We called it a night after that....
Reflections
I am most definitely sick, and my days are starting to blur together. Just need to survive this next week.
I decided to transfer the files from the orange Lacie Drive to the black Visions Archive so Zoe and I could work on the interview edits with the Archive drive in case somebody else needed the orange drive.
April 22 - Editing - 3hrs
Zoe and I first began the daunting task of editing by organizing the files and syncing the footage with the sound. This ended up taking a good chunk of our time and we became exhausted and decided to continue the next day with fresher eyes.
April 23 - Editing - 6hrs
The next day Zoe and I attempted to edit again. After getting the most expensive breakfast from Waffle House, we began our 6 hour journey of cutting down the interviews. Initially we began by removing Zoe's questions. This cut out a lot of time, but we still needed to cut out more because the interviews were still longer than we wanted so we ended up cutting them down even more. We eventually started to make them focus around 2 questions, the Visions Experience and Tips for other Filmmakers. We started with Caleb and Emily's interview, and we immediately regretted it because Caleb was clearly drunk and the biggest struggle was trying to make him sound sober. We called it a night after that....
Reflections
I am most definitely sick, and my days are starting to blur together. Just need to survive this next week.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Week 14 April 10 - April 16
April 11 - Bake Sale - 4 hrs
The weather was not favorable for baked goods. I think because it was so hot, many people disregarded our stand. If we sold cold drinks It would have been a major success. I think I made a wrong choice by baking cupcakes with icing. By the end of the day, the icing had melted so badly that it looked like water. I don't know what happened to the baked goods at the end of the day, because there was many leftover.
April 14 - Thursday Night Dinner - 4hrs
This was a pretty interesting night. First I had to leave class early, in order to transport Rebecca and Tyler to Dig and Dive. I had never been there so had no idea what to expect. I ate Jessica's left over quesadilla while talking to Ariel about her film. I then ate Adrienne's left over fries, and offered them to everyone else willing. Food wise, it was a success, because I spent no money. I then played volleyball outside with a number of staff and guest for the remainder of the evening. I learned that I could not serve. When I left, I had to transport Matt Stamm back to the hotel with Rebecca and we talked to him about how much he remembered about Wilmington.
April 15 - Visions - 13hrs
The big day began by transporting the Europeans to the campus, Charlotte, Dean and Vicky. I enjoyed their company even more, they even said my vehicle was similar to the type they drive in Europe, because it is a small hatchback. During the early portions of the festival I was operating the camera to get the introduction and the Q&A portion of Film Block 1. During the Keynote address one of the volunteers arrived so I was able to step out and help setup the room where we would conduct the interviews on campus. Zoe, Rob Carson and I setup the interview room, which included putting up the step and repeat, setting up the lights, camera and sound equipment. During the Lunch Break Zoe and I decided to use the time to try and conduct some interviews. We initially had 4 interviews in that time slot but were only able to complete 2. We heard that Bo left, so we saw this as only being behind one interview. We didn't conduct anymore interviews until during the dinner/dessert reception. Zoe managed to complete the rest of the interviews while I transferred files onto the hard drive, formatted the cards and charged batteries during the break. For the remainder of the festival I was running cards, batteries, and transferring cards for the camera operators, while doing odd jobs for other people.
- Afterparty 3hrs
As soon as I arrived to the after party there seemed to be issues with the instillation, so I offered to go search for a DVD that would play on the DVD player. I went to a few local places downtown but was unable to locate anyone who sold blank DVD-RWs. I felt kind of out of place out of the after party, because I'm not really a social person so I remained in the back room until the interviews started. After the awards were announced, Zoe began grabbing the recipients and we began conducting interviews. For the remainder of the after party I was operating the sound equipment.
April 16 - Saturday Brunch - 2hrs
The next morning a few of the staff members met with some of the guest and we had brunch at King Neptune's Restaurant.
Reflections
I am exhausted, and I feel I am starting to get sick, but I am certain that I am not the only one.
The weather was not favorable for baked goods. I think because it was so hot, many people disregarded our stand. If we sold cold drinks It would have been a major success. I think I made a wrong choice by baking cupcakes with icing. By the end of the day, the icing had melted so badly that it looked like water. I don't know what happened to the baked goods at the end of the day, because there was many leftover.
April 14 - Thursday Night Dinner - 4hrs
This was a pretty interesting night. First I had to leave class early, in order to transport Rebecca and Tyler to Dig and Dive. I had never been there so had no idea what to expect. I ate Jessica's left over quesadilla while talking to Ariel about her film. I then ate Adrienne's left over fries, and offered them to everyone else willing. Food wise, it was a success, because I spent no money. I then played volleyball outside with a number of staff and guest for the remainder of the evening. I learned that I could not serve. When I left, I had to transport Matt Stamm back to the hotel with Rebecca and we talked to him about how much he remembered about Wilmington.
April 15 - Visions - 13hrs
The big day began by transporting the Europeans to the campus, Charlotte, Dean and Vicky. I enjoyed their company even more, they even said my vehicle was similar to the type they drive in Europe, because it is a small hatchback. During the early portions of the festival I was operating the camera to get the introduction and the Q&A portion of Film Block 1. During the Keynote address one of the volunteers arrived so I was able to step out and help setup the room where we would conduct the interviews on campus. Zoe, Rob Carson and I setup the interview room, which included putting up the step and repeat, setting up the lights, camera and sound equipment. During the Lunch Break Zoe and I decided to use the time to try and conduct some interviews. We initially had 4 interviews in that time slot but were only able to complete 2. We heard that Bo left, so we saw this as only being behind one interview. We didn't conduct anymore interviews until during the dinner/dessert reception. Zoe managed to complete the rest of the interviews while I transferred files onto the hard drive, formatted the cards and charged batteries during the break. For the remainder of the festival I was running cards, batteries, and transferring cards for the camera operators, while doing odd jobs for other people.
- Afterparty 3hrs
As soon as I arrived to the after party there seemed to be issues with the instillation, so I offered to go search for a DVD that would play on the DVD player. I went to a few local places downtown but was unable to locate anyone who sold blank DVD-RWs. I felt kind of out of place out of the after party, because I'm not really a social person so I remained in the back room until the interviews started. After the awards were announced, Zoe began grabbing the recipients and we began conducting interviews. For the remainder of the after party I was operating the sound equipment.
April 16 - Saturday Brunch - 2hrs
The next morning a few of the staff members met with some of the guest and we had brunch at King Neptune's Restaurant.
Reflections
I am exhausted, and I feel I am starting to get sick, but I am certain that I am not the only one.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Week 13 April 3 - April 9
April 3 - Display Cases - 4 hrs
I spent majority of this evening working on the remodeling the display cases because I needed to return the key the following Monday.
April 8 - Hard Drive Presentation - 2hrs
Sat in on a Director's meeting, which was interesting. It is like looking at the underbelly of the Visions, a lot of different things are discussed, and many of the decisions are made here. I'm not sure if I am allowed to disclose anything, but I showed the Directors what I was having issues with. Which was mainly trying to understand where certain files would belong. Because I mainly work with art and marketing, I already knew where those files belonged, I wasn't sure which department the other files would belong to.
I spent majority of this evening working on the remodeling the display cases because I needed to return the key the following Monday.
April 8 - Hard Drive Presentation - 2hrs
Sat in on a Director's meeting, which was interesting. It is like looking at the underbelly of the Visions, a lot of different things are discussed, and many of the decisions are made here. I'm not sure if I am allowed to disclose anything, but I showed the Directors what I was having issues with. Which was mainly trying to understand where certain files would belong. Because I mainly work with art and marketing, I already knew where those files belonged, I wasn't sure which department the other files would belong to.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Week 12 March 27 - April 2
March 28 - Interview Schedule Adjustments - 1hr
Next class I present on how we should schedule the interviews for the day of the event. I created 2 versions, one being possibly more stressful, but would occupy less time during the day of the event, and another being more flexible but taking up more time during the event.
March 30 - Marketing Meeting- 2hrs
One of the topics of discussion today was the Interview Schedule for the day of the event. Since my presentation was pushed back, we had to put my presentation on facebook in order to get suggestions from the rest of the class. A few have already commented on the options, so that is good.
April 1 - Get Display Key - 1hr
Although this did not take an hour to get, I will round it up, because I had to ask for the key, and send emails back and forth to ensure that I would be able to pick up the key, in order to gain access to the cases on the weekend. I will need to give Lexi, the receptionist, a thank you card in the future.
Links:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I83rDadX_PZ7aXEEd2mvGJWXmcIhptaf0sYmrqQwmyk/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F3M0kNmPtLiTEJYMDq5dMMoxW1X9TRWJeXsn32CLGvQ/edit
Next class I present on how we should schedule the interviews for the day of the event. I created 2 versions, one being possibly more stressful, but would occupy less time during the day of the event, and another being more flexible but taking up more time during the event.
March 30 - Marketing Meeting- 2hrs
One of the topics of discussion today was the Interview Schedule for the day of the event. Since my presentation was pushed back, we had to put my presentation on facebook in order to get suggestions from the rest of the class. A few have already commented on the options, so that is good.
April 1 - Get Display Key - 1hr
Although this did not take an hour to get, I will round it up, because I had to ask for the key, and send emails back and forth to ensure that I would be able to pick up the key, in order to gain access to the cases on the weekend. I will need to give Lexi, the receptionist, a thank you card in the future.
Links:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I83rDadX_PZ7aXEEd2mvGJWXmcIhptaf0sYmrqQwmyk/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F3M0kNmPtLiTEJYMDq5dMMoxW1X9TRWJeXsn32CLGvQ/edit
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Week 11 March 21 - March 27
March 21 - Final Adjustment to presentation - 1hr
Tomorrow I present the Inventory list, I worked on the list over the break, but made a presentation to show to the class last week. I noticed a few hiccups, for example my numbers where a little off, I accidentally put some items in two different boxes. I corrected this, and the total amount of items had to change. But this number is not exact anyways, since I am certain this actually more items, around campus somewhere.
March 22 - Archive Request Form - 1hr
The form I sent out to the class was horrendously flawed. It was my first time making one, so I had to learn about the many restrictions Google offers. I forgot key inputs, like name, and when they wanted to receive archive items. So, I adjusted the form and posted to facebook.
March 26 - Day of Event Interview Schedule- 3hrs
Worked on the Interview schedule that will be used on the day of Visions. I tried my best to place the interviews during times when nobody was presenting, but ultimately had to sacrifice the conference block to put a good chunk of the interviews within that time period. Blocks that nothing could be scheduled into was the Keynote address, Video Race and Visionary Panel. Those take a good chunk of the time so I mainly scheduled during eating times. Anyways, I will post a link to my two versions, that I will present.
March 27 - Video on Day of Event - 1hr
I met with Rob and we created a spreadsheet that would help us figure out how many camera operators we would need for the day of the event. For the most part we will be running a 3 camera system, but they will not have to be run all at once all the time. Also we needed to put into account that the interviews being conducted in another room would also require a camera operator as well.
- Visions 2 & 4 Organized - 4hrs
After that meeting I went to the edit lab and began working on organizing the hard drive. I went through a good chunk of Visions 2, until I became overwhelmed and then moved on to Visions 4, I skipped Visions 3 because I accidentally clicked 4 instead and just proceeded without looking back. I will have to return to 3 after completing 4. For the most part, what is taking the most time to organize is the documents tab, because there is so much content that is just thrown in there and I am having to make folders that tries to organize files by not only type, but how they may have been grouped together, I feel that once I get to Visions 5 and 6 I will just emulate what is on the drive, because for the most part that is how these document folders should be organized (by department I mean).
Links:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I83rDadX_PZ7aXEEd2mvGJWXmcIhptaf0sYmrqQwmyk/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F3M0kNmPtLiTEJYMDq5dMMoxW1X9TRWJeXsn32CLGvQ/edit
Tomorrow I present the Inventory list, I worked on the list over the break, but made a presentation to show to the class last week. I noticed a few hiccups, for example my numbers where a little off, I accidentally put some items in two different boxes. I corrected this, and the total amount of items had to change. But this number is not exact anyways, since I am certain this actually more items, around campus somewhere.
March 22 - Archive Request Form - 1hr
The form I sent out to the class was horrendously flawed. It was my first time making one, so I had to learn about the many restrictions Google offers. I forgot key inputs, like name, and when they wanted to receive archive items. So, I adjusted the form and posted to facebook.
March 26 - Day of Event Interview Schedule- 3hrs
Worked on the Interview schedule that will be used on the day of Visions. I tried my best to place the interviews during times when nobody was presenting, but ultimately had to sacrifice the conference block to put a good chunk of the interviews within that time period. Blocks that nothing could be scheduled into was the Keynote address, Video Race and Visionary Panel. Those take a good chunk of the time so I mainly scheduled during eating times. Anyways, I will post a link to my two versions, that I will present.
March 27 - Video on Day of Event - 1hr
I met with Rob and we created a spreadsheet that would help us figure out how many camera operators we would need for the day of the event. For the most part we will be running a 3 camera system, but they will not have to be run all at once all the time. Also we needed to put into account that the interviews being conducted in another room would also require a camera operator as well.
- Visions 2 & 4 Organized - 4hrs
After that meeting I went to the edit lab and began working on organizing the hard drive. I went through a good chunk of Visions 2, until I became overwhelmed and then moved on to Visions 4, I skipped Visions 3 because I accidentally clicked 4 instead and just proceeded without looking back. I will have to return to 3 after completing 4. For the most part, what is taking the most time to organize is the documents tab, because there is so much content that is just thrown in there and I am having to make folders that tries to organize files by not only type, but how they may have been grouped together, I feel that once I get to Visions 5 and 6 I will just emulate what is on the drive, because for the most part that is how these document folders should be organized (by department I mean).
Links:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I83rDadX_PZ7aXEEd2mvGJWXmcIhptaf0sYmrqQwmyk/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F3M0kNmPtLiTEJYMDq5dMMoxW1X9TRWJeXsn32CLGvQ/edit
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Week 10 March 14 - March 20
March 15 - Purchase Online Items - 1hr
After Visions, Zoe and I purchased all Amazon.com items from the Archive budget. We used Zoe's mom's Amazon Prime account in order to be charged as little shipping as possible, as well as getting quicker shipping.
- Class Visit Schedule - 1hr
After purchasing those items online, Zoe and I proceeded to make a classroom visit schedule to promote Visions.
March 16 - Repurchase Online Items - 1hr
The next day, Zoe made me aware that all the orders had been declined because the gift card did not go through. I had been concerned about this last night, because I had activated it through the automated phone system; but I guess that was not successful, so we reactivated it online and the orders seem to go through fine this time.
- Posters at CFCC - 2hrs
Afterwards, Zoe and I went to Cape Fear Community College and hung up some posters. This was the only day I would have available since the rest of the week was scheduled for 495 projects or our schedules did not have corresponding free time. So in the spur of the moment we went downtown to hang up these posters. Unfortunately upon speaking to the front receptionist, we where told that the person who approves of the posters was out on her lunch and would not return until another hour. We decided to find her office and see if there might be somebody there who could help us. We went into her office and nobody was there, we hoped that somebody would see us and be more than willing to stamp our posters. As we left, she stepped in with her lunch and happily approved of our posters. We went into the arts building and theater and placed photos there.
- Action Plan for Roll out Meeting - 2hrs
We then returned to campus because Zoe had a meeting with Jack. I sat in for the most part, but made them aware that I was also completing tasks for other classes, so I would be coming in and out of this meeting. I tried to use my resources to get in contact with Encore, but was unsuccessful. One of the things we discusses was how the roll out of press releases should be ordered. We decided to look at past Visions press releases about the keynote and filmmakers, but because there was no dates on those we had no idea how we should order these. So we decided on ordering them based on interest and almost hierarchies. Scholars then Filmmakers, then Keynote and finally the bonus, the Panel. But from what I understand this may have changed recently.
March 19 - Archive Shopping - 2hrs
Went to Joanne Fabrics with Zoe and looked for items pertaining to the Archive Budget, in order to see if they would be more convenient than an online purchase. We realized that even with shipping, the online items still cost significantly less. We also searched for the same items at A.C. Moore, to no avail. We then went to Best Buy to purchase the a portable Hard Drive, but unfortunately they did not carry that item in the store. We did find another similar Hard Drive, but it was out of stock. We then went to Staples to look for another Hard Drive but the
After Visions, Zoe and I purchased all Amazon.com items from the Archive budget. We used Zoe's mom's Amazon Prime account in order to be charged as little shipping as possible, as well as getting quicker shipping.
- Class Visit Schedule - 1hr
After purchasing those items online, Zoe and I proceeded to make a classroom visit schedule to promote Visions.
March 16 - Repurchase Online Items - 1hr
The next day, Zoe made me aware that all the orders had been declined because the gift card did not go through. I had been concerned about this last night, because I had activated it through the automated phone system; but I guess that was not successful, so we reactivated it online and the orders seem to go through fine this time.
- Posters at CFCC - 2hrs
Afterwards, Zoe and I went to Cape Fear Community College and hung up some posters. This was the only day I would have available since the rest of the week was scheduled for 495 projects or our schedules did not have corresponding free time. So in the spur of the moment we went downtown to hang up these posters. Unfortunately upon speaking to the front receptionist, we where told that the person who approves of the posters was out on her lunch and would not return until another hour. We decided to find her office and see if there might be somebody there who could help us. We went into her office and nobody was there, we hoped that somebody would see us and be more than willing to stamp our posters. As we left, she stepped in with her lunch and happily approved of our posters. We went into the arts building and theater and placed photos there.
- Action Plan for Roll out Meeting - 2hrs
We then returned to campus because Zoe had a meeting with Jack. I sat in for the most part, but made them aware that I was also completing tasks for other classes, so I would be coming in and out of this meeting. I tried to use my resources to get in contact with Encore, but was unsuccessful. One of the things we discusses was how the roll out of press releases should be ordered. We decided to look at past Visions press releases about the keynote and filmmakers, but because there was no dates on those we had no idea how we should order these. So we decided on ordering them based on interest and almost hierarchies. Scholars then Filmmakers, then Keynote and finally the bonus, the Panel. But from what I understand this may have changed recently.
March 19 - Archive Shopping - 2hrs
Went to Joanne Fabrics with Zoe and looked for items pertaining to the Archive Budget, in order to see if they would be more convenient than an online purchase. We realized that even with shipping, the online items still cost significantly less. We also searched for the same items at A.C. Moore, to no avail. We then went to Best Buy to purchase the a portable Hard Drive, but unfortunately they did not carry that item in the store. We did find another similar Hard Drive, but it was out of stock. We then went to Staples to look for another Hard Drive but the
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Week 8 Feb 29 - March 6
Mar 1 - Updated Trello - 1hr
Updated my trello tasks with revised smart goal and checked off the 2011 Visions Archives. Added inventory as one of my tasks,
Mar 4 - Revised Budget - 2hrs
I revised the budget and included shipping into consideration. One of the issues with making an online budget is that the prices are constantly changing due to sales occurring every so often.
Reflections
I had a lighter load this week, and could have done more to help my department. Our meeting was postponed due to spring break. I will be working on the inventory over the break, so that may help me get a better idea of what is we have in the kitchen storage area.
Source:
N/A
Updated my trello tasks with revised smart goal and checked off the 2011 Visions Archives. Added inventory as one of my tasks,
Mar 4 - Revised Budget - 2hrs
I revised the budget and included shipping into consideration. One of the issues with making an online budget is that the prices are constantly changing due to sales occurring every so often.
Reflections
I had a lighter load this week, and could have done more to help my department. Our meeting was postponed due to spring break. I will be working on the inventory over the break, so that may help me get a better idea of what is we have in the kitchen storage area.
Source:
N/A
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Week 7 Feb 22 - Feb 28
Feb 22 - Department Meeting - 1hr
Meeting with both Zoe and Jack today and we looked at one another's revised budgets. One talking point was the color of the material that will used for the display cases, I wanted a red, but Zoe felt that would be too unpleasing. She preferred a dark material, like black, but the I told her the plaque would be black and it would go against the principles of my research. The "so-called" contrasting backgrounds. So we settled on Grey. I guess we will see how it looks, once it's up.
Feb 24 - Revised SMART goal - 3hrs
I have decided to redo my SMART goal to make it something more realistic since my other one relied on too many outside forces. So the hard drives are within, for the most part, completely within my control.
Feb 25 - Organized Visions 2011 Files - 2hrs
As the title for today suggest I completed merging the 2011 files from both hard drives and organized them to the best of my ability. I may need input from people based on what I have completed to see if my structure makes sense. I have been looking at these files for so long that I have probably created a bias.
Feb 27 - Departmental Meeting - 1hr
Had to meet with Zoe today, at a later time due to time conflicts with another project. I showed her the hard drive progress so far, and she seemed to be like what she saw. Not a hundred percent that she did like it, but there is a good probability that she likes what I have accomplished so far. If not, then I will be at her mercy.
Reflections
I have come to realize, that much like everything in life, you can't win every battle. This job of the archivist is quite depressing. It is like working within a vacuum, disconnected from the outside world, unsure of where you belong; this is because you are not quite in the marketing department and also because the job has never existed. Perhaps it has, but it doesn't seem like if they did it effectively. I am a pioneer in many way, because I must venture into the unknown and figure out how to best survive. My hope is that future archivists look at theses files and see, not the vast amount of data, but rather what could be accomplished with them. What I am trying to say is that these files have more purpose than just to be organized. They are designed to be used and learned from, there are a lot of mistakes from previous visions and the only way to learn from them is to see what was attempted in the past. Case and point, the link below is a website to a filmmaker who had a film in visions. Nowhere on their site does it mention Visions Film Festival & Conference.
Source:
http://www.buffalopicturehouse.com/work
Meeting with both Zoe and Jack today and we looked at one another's revised budgets. One talking point was the color of the material that will used for the display cases, I wanted a red, but Zoe felt that would be too unpleasing. She preferred a dark material, like black, but the I told her the plaque would be black and it would go against the principles of my research. The "so-called" contrasting backgrounds. So we settled on Grey. I guess we will see how it looks, once it's up.
Feb 24 - Revised SMART goal - 3hrs
I have decided to redo my SMART goal to make it something more realistic since my other one relied on too many outside forces. So the hard drives are within, for the most part, completely within my control.
Specific.
Organize digital format files on hard drive. This includes the combination of the Buffalo hard drive and the Lacie hard drive files. In order to have digital files for the online archives.
Who: Myself and Carson.
What: I want to organize the files on the hard drives in order to make them more accessible for future users: archivist, scholars, as well as incorporating them to the digital realm via the internet.
Where: The drives can be organized anywhere the hard drives are located. Home, school, etc.
When: check out Time-Bound below
Which: Need a computer. If a laptop is used it would be recommended that I be close to power source to prevent the computer from shutting down and possibly losing information.
Why: Purpose for this is to market the historical aspects of Visions Film Festival & Conference as well as preserving digital content.
Measurable.
Progress can be determined by inspecting the hard drive files. By seeing how the files are organized on the hard drive. So the completion ratio of Visions1,2,3,4,5 etc
Attainable
Yes very likely.
Realistic.
A low goal that is easy to attain would be getting all of the Visions files. A higher goal will be organizing them not only by year, but by different sections (marketing material, selections, awards, conference, juries (our historical info) files, and figure out stats as well). All things that can contribute to the online archive.
Time-Bound
Feb 16 - Combines drives
Feb 23 - Organize Visions1
Feb 27 - Give Visions1 files to Carson
Mar 5 - Organize Visions2
Mar 19 - Give Visions2 files to Carson
Mar 22 - Organize Visions3
Mar 26 - Give Visions3 files to Carson
Apr 5 - Organize Visions4
Apr 9 - Give Visions4 files to Carson
Apr 16 - Organize Visions5
Apr 20 - Give Visions5 files to Carson
Apr 24- Begin Organizing Visions6
Apr 30 - Begin Manual for Archivist, specifically a chapter: Digital Content Preservation - This will be about organization strategies using Visions6 files as the example on how to best and efficiently preserve digital material.
Feb 25 - Organized Visions 2011 Files - 2hrs
As the title for today suggest I completed merging the 2011 files from both hard drives and organized them to the best of my ability. I may need input from people based on what I have completed to see if my structure makes sense. I have been looking at these files for so long that I have probably created a bias.
Feb 27 - Departmental Meeting - 1hr
Had to meet with Zoe today, at a later time due to time conflicts with another project. I showed her the hard drive progress so far, and she seemed to be like what she saw. Not a hundred percent that she did like it, but there is a good probability that she likes what I have accomplished so far. If not, then I will be at her mercy.
Reflections
I have come to realize, that much like everything in life, you can't win every battle. This job of the archivist is quite depressing. It is like working within a vacuum, disconnected from the outside world, unsure of where you belong; this is because you are not quite in the marketing department and also because the job has never existed. Perhaps it has, but it doesn't seem like if they did it effectively. I am a pioneer in many way, because I must venture into the unknown and figure out how to best survive. My hope is that future archivists look at theses files and see, not the vast amount of data, but rather what could be accomplished with them. What I am trying to say is that these files have more purpose than just to be organized. They are designed to be used and learned from, there are a lot of mistakes from previous visions and the only way to learn from them is to see what was attempted in the past. Case and point, the link below is a website to a filmmaker who had a film in visions. Nowhere on their site does it mention Visions Film Festival & Conference.
Source:
http://www.buffalopicturehouse.com/work
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Week 6 Feb 15 - Feb 21
Feb 15 - Budget - 2hr
Today I readjusted my budget, and realized that I would have to pick between either another hard drive or supplies to make the display case look nicer. Because I have one hard drive right now, I think visions awareness would be more beneficial for the short term rather than using majority of my budget for another hard drive.
Feb 16 - Organizing Visions 2011 Files - 2hr
I continue working on the 2011 files and end up finding more of the same things on the tow different drives. I am almost complete with this year and will be getting ready to hand it over to Carson so he can easily find the files that he needs for the online archive.
Feb 20 - Organizing Visions 2011 Files - 2hrs
Because Zoe is part of the group leaving to Virginia we did not have a meeting this week. So I worked on the Visions 2011 files. These seem to be taking forever because everything seems to be out of place in the hard drive. I know that once I get to Visions 4 there will be more issues because they were switching from dropbox to googledrive. Visions 5 is nowhere to be found as well. So my goal is to complete Visions1 by next Saturday because it will serve as the template for the rest of the files.
Reflections
Looking at it now, this was a slow week. This is partly due to working on other assignments for other classes. This coming week I will submit my revised budget with hard drive included, and begin (and hopefully finish) the inventory of material in the kitchen. So hopefully I will get back to the old work rate.
Source:
N/A
Today I readjusted my budget, and realized that I would have to pick between either another hard drive or supplies to make the display case look nicer. Because I have one hard drive right now, I think visions awareness would be more beneficial for the short term rather than using majority of my budget for another hard drive.
Feb 16 - Organizing Visions 2011 Files - 2hr
I continue working on the 2011 files and end up finding more of the same things on the tow different drives. I am almost complete with this year and will be getting ready to hand it over to Carson so he can easily find the files that he needs for the online archive.
Feb 20 - Organizing Visions 2011 Files - 2hrs
Because Zoe is part of the group leaving to Virginia we did not have a meeting this week. So I worked on the Visions 2011 files. These seem to be taking forever because everything seems to be out of place in the hard drive. I know that once I get to Visions 4 there will be more issues because they were switching from dropbox to googledrive. Visions 5 is nowhere to be found as well. So my goal is to complete Visions1 by next Saturday because it will serve as the template for the rest of the files.
Reflections
Looking at it now, this was a slow week. This is partly due to working on other assignments for other classes. This coming week I will submit my revised budget with hard drive included, and begin (and hopefully finish) the inventory of material in the kitchen. So hopefully I will get back to the old work rate.
Source:
N/A
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Week 5 Feb 8 - Feb 14
Feb 8 - Display Case Presentation - 2hr
Today I added some final touches to the display case presentation. Mainly I found images and photos in order to add them to the presentation. The research information I found about the "science attention" and the interview I had with Brandon Guthrie contributed to the presentation heavily. One of the issues was finding film festival images, because the only display cases about films were preserving movie props and other movie memorabilia rather than the festivals themselves. Another issue was finding examples within the parameters of the type of case I had access too, so I had to create something myself.
Feb 9 - Organizing Visions 2011 Files - 1hr
I continued organizing the drives but could only work on them for so long before the madness sets in again. One of the biggest issues that I have encountered is that there is duplicate folder's inside of themselves. So I have to look at individual files and determine if there is any differences, most of the time they are carbon copies of one another, but every now and then there is a slightly different version of the same document so I need to keep both versions.
Feb 10 - Bake Sale - 5hrs
Today was the day of the bake sale. I had a lot of fun acting like a fool trying to convince people to donate for baked goods. I mainly tried to push the cake pops that I helped make. What I enjoyed the most was hearing people's excuses why they couldn't donate, it ranged from I don't have cash, I'm running late, and I was just mugged yesterday. Most people seemed to be open to the idea, and when I initially got their attention with "hello, how are you, having a good day" more people were wiling to stop and listen, as oppose to "Hey would you like donate to...through bake sale." I think some people wanted to start conversations, but once they heard me trying to "sell" Visions they either wanted to know more about the cause, or became distant.
Feb 11 - Calico Room Valentines Party - 5hrs
This was the night of the Calico room party. I think because I don't drink alcohol I am just socially awkward at these sort of things. I feel like if I don't have anything to do, and my one task didn't occur until midnight. I was door person #2 and by then there was really no people coming in, so I was mainly handing out short surveys. I will say this though, the Theory of Reciprocity was proven this night, Shannon gave a raffle ticket to Wes, and this lead to Wes and Ryan buying $40 worth of raffle tickets. Not only that but by the time I went to see Ryan again, he was posting on the Cape Fear Equality page drawing to the event that night. He told me to send him the link once the tickets were on sale in order to post about that as well.
Feb 13 - Meeting with Marketing and Art Department - 2hrs
Today I met with Zoe, Jack, Grace, Michelle and Carson. Zoe asked me about my budget, and presentation, and told me to make adjustments. One slide will have to go, even though I liked it because it created synergy. I think I will fine tune my presentation in order to have it function with the budget since I did not present this week.
Reflections
Other than already knowing I am a socially awkward person in social situations and an outgoing lively person in normal situations, what else did I find out about myself this week, and I guess my job. I am a paradox, so my work is a reflection of that, I make simple task complicated, and make difficult task look simple. My whole idea is that if it is too simple then you should put much more research and work into it in order to get down to the root of the task. Sometimes that means looking at art in order to be visually pleasured or confused, which then leads to trying to understand scientifically how the eye functions, and finally how our attention is attained. All this to try and figure out how a display case should be organized. I really like my holistic approach because somewhere down the research rabbit hole I will find something that interest me a lot.
Source:
N/A
Today I added some final touches to the display case presentation. Mainly I found images and photos in order to add them to the presentation. The research information I found about the "science attention" and the interview I had with Brandon Guthrie contributed to the presentation heavily. One of the issues was finding film festival images, because the only display cases about films were preserving movie props and other movie memorabilia rather than the festivals themselves. Another issue was finding examples within the parameters of the type of case I had access too, so I had to create something myself.
Feb 9 - Organizing Visions 2011 Files - 1hr
I continued organizing the drives but could only work on them for so long before the madness sets in again. One of the biggest issues that I have encountered is that there is duplicate folder's inside of themselves. So I have to look at individual files and determine if there is any differences, most of the time they are carbon copies of one another, but every now and then there is a slightly different version of the same document so I need to keep both versions.
Feb 10 - Bake Sale - 5hrs
Today was the day of the bake sale. I had a lot of fun acting like a fool trying to convince people to donate for baked goods. I mainly tried to push the cake pops that I helped make. What I enjoyed the most was hearing people's excuses why they couldn't donate, it ranged from I don't have cash, I'm running late, and I was just mugged yesterday. Most people seemed to be open to the idea, and when I initially got their attention with "hello, how are you, having a good day" more people were wiling to stop and listen, as oppose to "Hey would you like donate to...through bake sale." I think some people wanted to start conversations, but once they heard me trying to "sell" Visions they either wanted to know more about the cause, or became distant.
Feb 11 - Calico Room Valentines Party - 5hrs
This was the night of the Calico room party. I think because I don't drink alcohol I am just socially awkward at these sort of things. I feel like if I don't have anything to do, and my one task didn't occur until midnight. I was door person #2 and by then there was really no people coming in, so I was mainly handing out short surveys. I will say this though, the Theory of Reciprocity was proven this night, Shannon gave a raffle ticket to Wes, and this lead to Wes and Ryan buying $40 worth of raffle tickets. Not only that but by the time I went to see Ryan again, he was posting on the Cape Fear Equality page drawing to the event that night. He told me to send him the link once the tickets were on sale in order to post about that as well.
Feb 13 - Meeting with Marketing and Art Department - 2hrs
Today I met with Zoe, Jack, Grace, Michelle and Carson. Zoe asked me about my budget, and presentation, and told me to make adjustments. One slide will have to go, even though I liked it because it created synergy. I think I will fine tune my presentation in order to have it function with the budget since I did not present this week.
Reflections
Other than already knowing I am a socially awkward person in social situations and an outgoing lively person in normal situations, what else did I find out about myself this week, and I guess my job. I am a paradox, so my work is a reflection of that, I make simple task complicated, and make difficult task look simple. My whole idea is that if it is too simple then you should put much more research and work into it in order to get down to the root of the task. Sometimes that means looking at art in order to be visually pleasured or confused, which then leads to trying to understand scientifically how the eye functions, and finally how our attention is attained. All this to try and figure out how a display case should be organized. I really like my holistic approach because somewhere down the research rabbit hole I will find something that interest me a lot.
Source:
N/A
Monday, February 8, 2016
Week 4 Feb 1 - Feb 7
Feb 1 - Display Research - 2hrs
I read through the The Six Laws of Attention. Summarized them the best I could below.
-1.) Attention is a Limited Resource. Humans are not capable of paying attention or being aware of everything. What I found most interesting about this law was that we are not even aware of our own biology, until something is pointed out. For example we don't notice our pumping/ throbbing hearts, unless if we are under some sort of stress, or until this last sentence was read.
-2.) Attention is Selective. In order to pay attention to something you must exclude something else. This essentially supports the limited resource law, but rather than not being able to recognize everything because of limitations, one selects what they pay attention to. The "Cocktail Party Phenomenon" illustrates this, basically when one person is having a conversation with somebody they become oblivious to other conversations around them.
-3.) Consciousness Requires Attention. This is a bit trickier to understand, but returning to the cocktail party, a person will still be dimly aware of things around them. So the more engaging something is, the more attention one pays to it.
-4.) Attention does not Require Consciousness. When a person becomes has over-learned something, like driving a car, they are not fully conscious of all the motions that are required to drive a vehicle. The only way this could be applied to display cases is that people may have such a over-learned, automatic behavior like a set routine to class which may result in students not being fully aware of the display case, unless if you draw their attention to it.
-5.) All Tasks Require Some Degree of Attention (although that amount may be small). In a nutshell, everything we do requires attention, even it is a small amount. The little amount of attention is used to monitor automatic behavior; for example we use some attention to notice where we step as we descend stairs, but an even smaller amount when walking on level surface.
-6.) All Tasks Have an Optimal Level of Attention. Complex task suffer from lack of enough attention, while automatic task suffer from too much behavior. Interestingly how drawing attention to automatic behavior, minor behavior could be very disruptive. Pointing out somebodies gait will result in them walking differently. So how can I apply this to the display case, well I don't know.... yet.
- Meeting with Grace - 1hrs
I met with Grace to look through the hard drive in order to see what files she wanted to use for her presentation. This also allowed me the opportunity to look at the material on the hard drive after reformatting it. One thing that became obvious to both Grace and I was that the files are not similarly organized. One folder titles DOCS had videos for a certain Visions, while another contained a VIDEOS folder with every video for that year, things like Panels, advertisement and Submissions all lumped together. It became obvious that there needed to be a universal way of organizing all files. So Grace and I got as much as we could and I left the hard drive sorting for another day. One good thing that came from this was that I was able to see the footage of past conferences and I did not really like the camera placements for much of the panels, they did edit it pretty well, had they had one camera that framed the speakers frontally it could have cut better, so I mentioned that to Sydney.
Feb 3 - Meeting with Brandon Guthrie- 1hr
Zoe and I met with my former professor, now the current Department Chair for Humanities and Fine Arts at CFCC. He gave us a tour of the new Cape Fear Humanities and Fine Arts center, and showed us locations we could advertise. We found out that there is a front side and a backside to the building. The backside is were students have access to, while the front side side used for bigger events and runs like a business by different people not connected to the Humanities and Fine Arts department. So it may be more difficult to advertise in the front part of the building, but we may be able to put, four-ups in the front area. This would be good because this is a high traffic area during plays and concerts. The process of getting posters approved was pretty simple as well, all you have to do is go to the kiosk in Union Station and ask for the posters to be stamped for approval, and you don't even have to be a student.
- Organizing Hard Drive - 1hr
After getting back on campus I began organizing the Buffalo Hard Drive. The first thing I did was make a 6 Visions folder and inside of all of them I put 7 folders to help organize material. This way one can go from one Visions folder to another and they will all be organized the same. It really is simple but about an hour in, I ran into a wall, I found some documents that I have no idea where they belong, I need to get my hands on all the programs in order to see what material is missing and begin hunting files down that way.
Feb 4 - Lumina Scout- .5hr
Rebecca Firth gave me access to Lumina Theater and I was able to take some pictures of possible camera placements for Sydney Burton. I think with 3 cameras we would be able to get sufficient coverage of the panels, keynote speakers, host and crowd. The camera operators will have to coordinate by restricted to certain zones.
Feb 5 - Display Case Research - 1hrs
Today I met with Brandon Guthrie again, we discussed various things on displays. It took a while to explain exactly what I was displaying, initially he thought it was just documents so he showed me how to best display that, but then gave me advice on how to best display material and how it should be closer to the glass so people can see it. People don't like to peer into things, they would rather be able to see something closer, so bringing material forward. Guthrie also told me to angle the documents slightly, this way if there is light on top it could illuminate downward on it and make it easier to read. I also found out that a darker background would more foreground objects pop out if they are lighter. Essentially you have to make the material easy to access visually and that will help draw the attention of onlookers.
Feb 6 - Meeting with Art Department - 2hrs
Grace informed me that many Dirty Dozen's needs to be adjusted, so I made some changes. I mainly changed the task completion dates. Grace and I later went to the edit lab and looked through the hard drives again to see what else she may need for her presentation. Found out that things on Vimeo have more information. Another option may be to search through the second drive and see what files are in that drive, hopefully together they can combine to create a complete festival record.
- Organizing Visions 2011 Files - 2hrs
I went through the 2011 files and organized them into several folders in order to make it more organized. I got through one complete drive and was exhausted by the end. There is a lot of files that are randomly thrown in there. I also did not see any video files files, so I will have to track those somehow.
Reflections
This past week I continued my trend of researching "how things work." I can't wait until I can actually apply all of these theories. Perhaps they wont work, so far the organization of the hard drive in the same structure as the online archive has been useful. If it makes it easier to access stuff on the hard drive it should be easy to access once its online. I look forward to the day Carson and I begin filling up the archives online.
The other day somebody called me Indiana Jones, this was partly because I have to track down all the missing pieces. I really like this idea of being an Anthropologist; after that it is my other major, and this is like the initial research phase that is done before requesting a grant to apply the theory. Last week I compared my research to Going Deep with David Rees, but thinking about it anthropologically is way is a lot more exciting.
Source:
http://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/lawsofattention.html
I read through the The Six Laws of Attention. Summarized them the best I could below.
-1.) Attention is a Limited Resource. Humans are not capable of paying attention or being aware of everything. What I found most interesting about this law was that we are not even aware of our own biology, until something is pointed out. For example we don't notice our pumping/ throbbing hearts, unless if we are under some sort of stress, or until this last sentence was read.
-2.) Attention is Selective. In order to pay attention to something you must exclude something else. This essentially supports the limited resource law, but rather than not being able to recognize everything because of limitations, one selects what they pay attention to. The "Cocktail Party Phenomenon" illustrates this, basically when one person is having a conversation with somebody they become oblivious to other conversations around them.
-3.) Consciousness Requires Attention. This is a bit trickier to understand, but returning to the cocktail party, a person will still be dimly aware of things around them. So the more engaging something is, the more attention one pays to it.
-4.) Attention does not Require Consciousness. When a person becomes has over-learned something, like driving a car, they are not fully conscious of all the motions that are required to drive a vehicle. The only way this could be applied to display cases is that people may have such a over-learned, automatic behavior like a set routine to class which may result in students not being fully aware of the display case, unless if you draw their attention to it.
-5.) All Tasks Require Some Degree of Attention (although that amount may be small). In a nutshell, everything we do requires attention, even it is a small amount. The little amount of attention is used to monitor automatic behavior; for example we use some attention to notice where we step as we descend stairs, but an even smaller amount when walking on level surface.
-6.) All Tasks Have an Optimal Level of Attention. Complex task suffer from lack of enough attention, while automatic task suffer from too much behavior. Interestingly how drawing attention to automatic behavior, minor behavior could be very disruptive. Pointing out somebodies gait will result in them walking differently. So how can I apply this to the display case, well I don't know.... yet.
- Meeting with Grace - 1hrs
I met with Grace to look through the hard drive in order to see what files she wanted to use for her presentation. This also allowed me the opportunity to look at the material on the hard drive after reformatting it. One thing that became obvious to both Grace and I was that the files are not similarly organized. One folder titles DOCS had videos for a certain Visions, while another contained a VIDEOS folder with every video for that year, things like Panels, advertisement and Submissions all lumped together. It became obvious that there needed to be a universal way of organizing all files. So Grace and I got as much as we could and I left the hard drive sorting for another day. One good thing that came from this was that I was able to see the footage of past conferences and I did not really like the camera placements for much of the panels, they did edit it pretty well, had they had one camera that framed the speakers frontally it could have cut better, so I mentioned that to Sydney.
Feb 3 - Meeting with Brandon Guthrie- 1hr
Zoe and I met with my former professor, now the current Department Chair for Humanities and Fine Arts at CFCC. He gave us a tour of the new Cape Fear Humanities and Fine Arts center, and showed us locations we could advertise. We found out that there is a front side and a backside to the building. The backside is were students have access to, while the front side side used for bigger events and runs like a business by different people not connected to the Humanities and Fine Arts department. So it may be more difficult to advertise in the front part of the building, but we may be able to put, four-ups in the front area. This would be good because this is a high traffic area during plays and concerts. The process of getting posters approved was pretty simple as well, all you have to do is go to the kiosk in Union Station and ask for the posters to be stamped for approval, and you don't even have to be a student.
- Organizing Hard Drive - 1hr
After getting back on campus I began organizing the Buffalo Hard Drive. The first thing I did was make a 6 Visions folder and inside of all of them I put 7 folders to help organize material. This way one can go from one Visions folder to another and they will all be organized the same. It really is simple but about an hour in, I ran into a wall, I found some documents that I have no idea where they belong, I need to get my hands on all the programs in order to see what material is missing and begin hunting files down that way.
Feb 4 - Lumina Scout- .5hr
Rebecca Firth gave me access to Lumina Theater and I was able to take some pictures of possible camera placements for Sydney Burton. I think with 3 cameras we would be able to get sufficient coverage of the panels, keynote speakers, host and crowd. The camera operators will have to coordinate by restricted to certain zones.
Feb 5 - Display Case Research - 1hrs
Today I met with Brandon Guthrie again, we discussed various things on displays. It took a while to explain exactly what I was displaying, initially he thought it was just documents so he showed me how to best display that, but then gave me advice on how to best display material and how it should be closer to the glass so people can see it. People don't like to peer into things, they would rather be able to see something closer, so bringing material forward. Guthrie also told me to angle the documents slightly, this way if there is light on top it could illuminate downward on it and make it easier to read. I also found out that a darker background would more foreground objects pop out if they are lighter. Essentially you have to make the material easy to access visually and that will help draw the attention of onlookers.
Feb 6 - Meeting with Art Department - 2hrs
Grace informed me that many Dirty Dozen's needs to be adjusted, so I made some changes. I mainly changed the task completion dates. Grace and I later went to the edit lab and looked through the hard drives again to see what else she may need for her presentation. Found out that things on Vimeo have more information. Another option may be to search through the second drive and see what files are in that drive, hopefully together they can combine to create a complete festival record.
- Organizing Visions 2011 Files - 2hrs
I went through the 2011 files and organized them into several folders in order to make it more organized. I got through one complete drive and was exhausted by the end. There is a lot of files that are randomly thrown in there. I also did not see any video files files, so I will have to track those somehow.
Reflections
This past week I continued my trend of researching "how things work." I can't wait until I can actually apply all of these theories. Perhaps they wont work, so far the organization of the hard drive in the same structure as the online archive has been useful. If it makes it easier to access stuff on the hard drive it should be easy to access once its online. I look forward to the day Carson and I begin filling up the archives online.
The other day somebody called me Indiana Jones, this was partly because I have to track down all the missing pieces. I really like this idea of being an Anthropologist; after that it is my other major, and this is like the initial research phase that is done before requesting a grant to apply the theory. Last week I compared my research to Going Deep with David Rees, but thinking about it anthropologically is way is a lot more exciting.
Source:
http://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/lawsofattention.html
Monday, February 1, 2016
Week 3 Jan 25 - Jan 31
Jan 25 - Festival Powerpoint - 1.5hrs
Completed final touches to festival powerpoint, added all images to slides. This included the screenshots of the other festivals demonstrating how they effectively use organizing tools to demonstrate different aspects of the archives.
- Marketing Dept and Art Dept Meeting - 2.5hrs
Discussed my findings with Zoe, and showed her my presentation. We fined tuned the presentation and decided that the presentation was complete. Zoe also made me aware that I should have a budget prepared for Archives.
- Archive Budget Proposal - 3hrs
Created a budget for 3 scenarios: $100, $250, and $500. These included display cases, storage containers, boxes and label makers.
Jan 26 - Inspect Display space in King - .5hrs
Shannon showed me the available cases and I agreed that we should have both the in wall display and the large wall display case. One will serve for season events; like to advertise galaxy quest, cinemixer, the valentines party and main event, Visions6. The in wall display by the screening room in king will be used as a year round display showing the growth of Visions Film Festival & Conference.
Jan 27 - Display Case Research - 1hr
Spoke with Anthropology Professor, Dr. Michaela Howells and asked her if she knew anything on the science behind the display. Although she has worked in museums, she did not actually display artifacts, but she did motion me to the right direction. She gave me the email to Dr. Shefsiek, a History professor who has studied how historical document and artifacts should be displayed.
Jan 29 - Display Case Research - 1hr
I contacted CFCC Department Chair of Humanities and Fine Arts, Brandon Guthrie, asking him if he could help understand how art is most effectively displayed. I figure that I should try and get a Historical perspective, Shefsiek, and an Artistic perspective, Guthrie, and compare how they differ and are similar. The goal is to understand the most effective way to demonstrate Visions artifacts that resonate with student traffic.
Jan 30 - Marketing Dept Meeting - .5hrs
Showed Grace the files I acquired from Luqi, and shared the folder with her. We agreed to meet again on Monday to go through and select the other files she was interested in. Spoke with Zoe and she told me to adjust the archive budget proposal to include it in my presentation.
- Formatting Visions Drive - 3hrs
Decided to format the Visions hard drive because it was formatted in MAC os, which will only work on Apple computers. According to Aaron, ExFat format will work on both PC and Mac, so that is why I am reformatting the drive.
Reflections
This past week, I have spent a lot of time trying to get in contact with people. Either people in other departments or sending out email to other professor to see if they would be willing to help me better understand how a display should look. I did find a link online to a page called Visual Expert Human Factors: The Six Laws of Attention. I plan to read that as soon as I have time. Even if the meetings with Shefsiek and Guthrie fall through I will at least have that. I also need to find some examples displays and see if they follow these trends. If I have time this coming week I will head to the Cameron Arts Museum and the Cape Fear Museum. There may be somebody who can assist me. I feel like if I could be a researcher for that National Geographic show, Going Deep with David Rees, which is really, a pretty cool thought.
Source:
http://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/lawsofattention.html
Completed final touches to festival powerpoint, added all images to slides. This included the screenshots of the other festivals demonstrating how they effectively use organizing tools to demonstrate different aspects of the archives.
- Marketing Dept and Art Dept Meeting - 2.5hrs
Discussed my findings with Zoe, and showed her my presentation. We fined tuned the presentation and decided that the presentation was complete. Zoe also made me aware that I should have a budget prepared for Archives.
- Archive Budget Proposal - 3hrs
Created a budget for 3 scenarios: $100, $250, and $500. These included display cases, storage containers, boxes and label makers.
Jan 26 - Inspect Display space in King - .5hrs
Shannon showed me the available cases and I agreed that we should have both the in wall display and the large wall display case. One will serve for season events; like to advertise galaxy quest, cinemixer, the valentines party and main event, Visions6. The in wall display by the screening room in king will be used as a year round display showing the growth of Visions Film Festival & Conference.
Jan 27 - Display Case Research - 1hr
Spoke with Anthropology Professor, Dr. Michaela Howells and asked her if she knew anything on the science behind the display. Although she has worked in museums, she did not actually display artifacts, but she did motion me to the right direction. She gave me the email to Dr. Shefsiek, a History professor who has studied how historical document and artifacts should be displayed.
Jan 29 - Display Case Research - 1hr
I contacted CFCC Department Chair of Humanities and Fine Arts, Brandon Guthrie, asking him if he could help understand how art is most effectively displayed. I figure that I should try and get a Historical perspective, Shefsiek, and an Artistic perspective, Guthrie, and compare how they differ and are similar. The goal is to understand the most effective way to demonstrate Visions artifacts that resonate with student traffic.
Jan 30 - Marketing Dept Meeting - .5hrs
Showed Grace the files I acquired from Luqi, and shared the folder with her. We agreed to meet again on Monday to go through and select the other files she was interested in. Spoke with Zoe and she told me to adjust the archive budget proposal to include it in my presentation.
- Formatting Visions Drive - 3hrs
Decided to format the Visions hard drive because it was formatted in MAC os, which will only work on Apple computers. According to Aaron, ExFat format will work on both PC and Mac, so that is why I am reformatting the drive.
Reflections
This past week, I have spent a lot of time trying to get in contact with people. Either people in other departments or sending out email to other professor to see if they would be willing to help me better understand how a display should look. I did find a link online to a page called Visual Expert Human Factors: The Six Laws of Attention. I plan to read that as soon as I have time. Even if the meetings with Shefsiek and Guthrie fall through I will at least have that. I also need to find some examples displays and see if they follow these trends. If I have time this coming week I will head to the Cameron Arts Museum and the Cape Fear Museum. There may be somebody who can assist me. I feel like if I could be a researcher for that National Geographic show, Going Deep with David Rees, which is really, a pretty cool thought.
Source:
http://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/lawsofattention.html
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Week 2 Jan 18 - Jan 24
Jan 18 - Marketing Department Meeting - 3 hrs
Jan 19 - Went through the Visions material in Kitchen - 1hr
Jan 20 - Researched Film Festival Archives - 2 hrs
Jan 21 - Researched Film Festival Archives - 1 hr
- Marketing Department Meeting - 2 hrs
Jan 22 - Researched Film Festival Archives - 3 hr
Research for Marketing:
This week I continued researching film festival archives. I found 9 different festivals originally, but then decreased it to 5 because some of the content was repetitive. I decided to pick particular film festival archives because they each demonstrated something unique about their archives. One site, Sundance was particularly disappointing, I decided to keep it in because it would serve a good example of what we should not try to do with festival information. The reason why I didn't like how they demonstrate their information was because it was very difficult to access. There also was a lot of hoops you have to jump to in order to access their database system. In order to access the database you have to go to UCLA's website. Regardless with the other 4 archives I was able to better understand what information is needed for an archive. Hopefully my presentation will go well.
Reflections:
What I learned about myself this week is that I actually like researching the differences between things. I thought looking at websites and trying to look at differences was going to be dreadful, but I began to notice which archives would be better based on the website accessibility. A concluded that a good online archive has two basic attributes, it must be easily accessible and interactive. There was many sites that were easy to access but offered little to interact with and the experience was minimal. The Cannes Film Festival was perhaps the best example, it was both easy to access, the archive button was easy to find, and the tabs within the archive made the usage very interactive. Sites like Sundance disappointed because you have to go to several websites in order to search film text, it felt like a scavenger hunt on the internet.
Jan 19 - Went through the Visions material in Kitchen - 1hr
Jan 20 - Researched Film Festival Archives - 2 hrs
Jan 21 - Researched Film Festival Archives - 1 hr
- Marketing Department Meeting - 2 hrs
Jan 22 - Researched Film Festival Archives - 3 hr
Research for Marketing:
This week I continued researching film festival archives. I found 9 different festivals originally, but then decreased it to 5 because some of the content was repetitive. I decided to pick particular film festival archives because they each demonstrated something unique about their archives. One site, Sundance was particularly disappointing, I decided to keep it in because it would serve a good example of what we should not try to do with festival information. The reason why I didn't like how they demonstrate their information was because it was very difficult to access. There also was a lot of hoops you have to jump to in order to access their database system. In order to access the database you have to go to UCLA's website. Regardless with the other 4 archives I was able to better understand what information is needed for an archive. Hopefully my presentation will go well.
Reflections:
What I learned about myself this week is that I actually like researching the differences between things. I thought looking at websites and trying to look at differences was going to be dreadful, but I began to notice which archives would be better based on the website accessibility. A concluded that a good online archive has two basic attributes, it must be easily accessible and interactive. There was many sites that were easy to access but offered little to interact with and the experience was minimal. The Cannes Film Festival was perhaps the best example, it was both easy to access, the archive button was easy to find, and the tabs within the archive made the usage very interactive. Sites like Sundance disappointed because you have to go to several websites in order to search film text, it felt like a scavenger hunt on the internet.
Week 1 Jan 11 - Jan 17
Jan 13 - Researched Film Festival Archives - 2 hrs
Jan 15 - Researched Film Festival Archives - 1 hr
Jan 16 - Marketing Department Meeting - 1.5 hrs
- Researched Film Festival Archives - 2 hrs
Jan 15 - Researched Film Festival Archives - 1 hr
Jan 16 - Marketing Department Meeting - 1.5 hrs
- Researched Film Festival Archives - 2 hrs
Dirty Dozen: Preservation and Display Case
1. What is the project supposed to achieve?
Organization of the Kitchen and display Visions Film Festival and Conference historical documents in a Display Case on UNCW campus.
2. Who is the customer? Visions Film Festival & Conference and the Film Studies Department: which includes FST Staff and students who may enjoy the display case.
3. What are the deliverables of the project? What will be literally displayed will be what is delivered. This will include the display of programs, showing the progression of the festival design and themes, also displaying the different shirt designs. Figuratively the display case will help create more awareness on campus about Visions Film Festival & Conference.
4. What is the budget? Right now there is no marketing budget. As of late, I have been just made aware that there is a display case available to us. The rest will be sweat equity in the amount of time that will be taken in order to organize the many artifacts in the kitchen.
5. How long will it take? I would like to complete the organization of materials in the kitchen by the end of February, depending how soon the Display Case is available, I would like to begin displaying materials as soon as possible.
6. What specific skills are needed? Definitely organizational skills: will need to organize material in the kitchen, take inventory of what is there, and find a way to keep the materials organized. Creativity will also be needed, because I will have to display materials in a way that will draw attention while also creating awareness about Visions Film Festival and Conference.
7. What special resources are needed? Vision Staff input on displayable material, and the assistance and permission from the faculty to display the material. But from my understanding they are more than willing to support the installment of a display case for Visions Film Festival and Conference.
8. Who is working the project? What is each person's job? At the moment, it is just me, but once the materials are ready to be displayed I will likely work close with the Marketing Department and the Art Department in creating installations.
9. What is the schedule?
Feb 9 - Display Case Presentation
Feb 16 - Present Budget proposal for display cases
Feb 20 - Meet with Art Department and see what can realistically be done.
Mar 19 - Create Inventory of kitchen items
-------not sure when I get access to budget funds, so this month will be preparing the room, organizing, and trying to make as much room as possible, meeting with Dave Monahan and see about the--------
April 15 - First Installation to be displayed by the date of the festival.
10. What are the risks? (Small vs. large impact, likely vs. unlikely)
Large impact, likely: Not all Visions Film Festival & Conference materials are in the kitchen
Large impact, somewhat likely: Some material are located in a different area, possibly a different room. Large impact, unlikely: Materials are destroyed or trashed before I retrieve them.
Small impact, likely: May be a few items that are damaged, but there is still enough to preserve and display.
Small impact, unlikely: Run behind schedule, but I have given myself the most time after speaking with the Art department so even if it takes a while to get materials there is still enough time to create the installation.
11. How will you communicate with your team? I am pretty much working on the display myself, but I do have to keep in contact with the Marketing Department, and I do so at our weekly meeting. As far as the Art Department, we are also supposed to meet every other week. Other than that, we all keep contact through facebook on the Visions group or I can contact individual members through text.
12. How will you determine if the project is successful? I personally will only find this project successful if we are able to attract the attention of FST students who observe the display case. This would serve as a tool of awareness about Visions Film Festival & Conference on campus, and if we are able to make more students aware, I will see it as a success.
2. Who is the customer? Visions Film Festival & Conference and the Film Studies Department: which includes FST Staff and students who may enjoy the display case.
3. What are the deliverables of the project? What will be literally displayed will be what is delivered. This will include the display of programs, showing the progression of the festival design and themes, also displaying the different shirt designs. Figuratively the display case will help create more awareness on campus about Visions Film Festival & Conference.
4. What is the budget? Right now there is no marketing budget. As of late, I have been just made aware that there is a display case available to us. The rest will be sweat equity in the amount of time that will be taken in order to organize the many artifacts in the kitchen.
5. How long will it take? I would like to complete the organization of materials in the kitchen by the end of February, depending how soon the Display Case is available, I would like to begin displaying materials as soon as possible.
6. What specific skills are needed? Definitely organizational skills: will need to organize material in the kitchen, take inventory of what is there, and find a way to keep the materials organized. Creativity will also be needed, because I will have to display materials in a way that will draw attention while also creating awareness about Visions Film Festival and Conference.
7. What special resources are needed? Vision Staff input on displayable material, and the assistance and permission from the faculty to display the material. But from my understanding they are more than willing to support the installment of a display case for Visions Film Festival and Conference.
8. Who is working the project? What is each person's job? At the moment, it is just me, but once the materials are ready to be displayed I will likely work close with the Marketing Department and the Art Department in creating installations.
9. What is the schedule?
Feb 9 - Display Case Presentation
Feb 16 - Present Budget proposal for display cases
Feb 20 - Meet with Art Department and see what can realistically be done.
Mar 19 - Create Inventory of kitchen items
-------not sure when I get access to budget funds, so this month will be preparing the room, organizing, and trying to make as much room as possible, meeting with Dave Monahan and see about the--------
April 15 - First Installation to be displayed by the date of the festival.
10. What are the risks? (Small vs. large impact, likely vs. unlikely)
Large impact, likely: Not all Visions Film Festival & Conference materials are in the kitchen
Large impact, somewhat likely: Some material are located in a different area, possibly a different room. Large impact, unlikely: Materials are destroyed or trashed before I retrieve them.
Small impact, likely: May be a few items that are damaged, but there is still enough to preserve and display.
Small impact, unlikely: Run behind schedule, but I have given myself the most time after speaking with the Art department so even if it takes a while to get materials there is still enough time to create the installation.
11. How will you communicate with your team? I am pretty much working on the display myself, but I do have to keep in contact with the Marketing Department, and I do so at our weekly meeting. As far as the Art Department, we are also supposed to meet every other week. Other than that, we all keep contact through facebook on the Visions group or I can contact individual members through text.
12. How will you determine if the project is successful? I personally will only find this project successful if we are able to attract the attention of FST students who observe the display case. This would serve as a tool of awareness about Visions Film Festival & Conference on campus, and if we are able to make more students aware, I will see it as a success.
Monday, January 18, 2016
Marketing Department and Job Description
This week I had a few meetings
Saturday 1/16/2016 I met with Zoe and Jack from 10:30am to 12:00pm in order to figure out what My job tasks are, as well as picking up the hard drives from Shannon's office.
Monday 1/18/2016 The marketing team will meet again from 12:00pm to 3:00pm in order to discuss what we are all individually working on.
Research Conducted for this week
What I have mainly researched is different film festival archives, I found five that I like certain parts too and will begin working on a presentation with my findings. I will look through the hard drives I was given this next week in order to see what information is on there and how I could better organize the online database.
Marketing Department and Job Description
The Marketing Department collaborates with many other departments within Visions. Perhaps the department marketing works closest with, is the Art Department. This is because the Art department creates the content which the marketing department is then responsible for distributing. The Marketing Department relies on the deadlines set by the Programming Department in order to ensure that as many people are aware of upcoming events. When events are thrown to raise funds for Visions, the Marketing Department must work with the Development Department to ensure that these events are advertised. Essentially the Marketing Department is the bridge between the general public and the content that is created.
The goal of the Marketing Department is to broaden the awareness of Visions. The audiences that are targeted are very diverse, this is demonstrated by the different avenues taken in order to get their attention. One group is the undergraduate filmmaker or scholar who can be attained through film and/or paper submissions. Another group who is targeted are sponsors, these include businesses and other departments at the university. By knowing our audience, we are better suited to appeal to their needs which will then allow us to find the appropriate and effective method of marketing the festival to them. Some effective tools that work to our advantage are the the use of imagery which is more appealing than simple text. This does not suggest that "written words" are non essential, but the quite the opposite. Language should always be checked for grammatical errors.
Weekly tasks:
Because my job did not exist at the beginning of the semester, I sat down with Zoe and helped determined which type of tasks I will be in charge of. We decided that as an Archivist I will be responsible of attaining and preserving historical documents that pertain to Visions Film Festival and Conference, as well as creating a system by the end of the semester by which future Archivist will follow in order to preserve future documents and files. I look forward to creating a system which future generations will follow and update in order to preserve files, and dare I say, artifacts about Visions Film Festival and Conference.
Festivals of Their Own
One thing I found most interesting about this article was that experimental films, like the work of Maya Deren were exposed at early film festivals. But by the 70's these experimental films were too unmarketable and weren't being selected for these festivals. Sundance Film Festival eventually stopped to cater to low budget films and became an extension of Hollywood; this explosion led to imitation from neighboring festivals like Slamdance which catered to films that could not get into Sundance. As festivals become bigger, they begin to select films more exclusively and create an environment in which other smaller venues can attain the rejected films.
Another thing I found very interesting was the interview section with Josh Koury. When asked about determining which festivals to submit to, he responded realistically by stating that it is impossible to submit to every festival. Not only that, you will not get accepted at every festival, instead you have to submit to festivals that may be interested in your type of film. Sometimes smaller festivals are better for this, because the niche audience they already cater to, are the crowd you may want to see your film. Another thing Koury mentioned was the atmosphere, even at smaller festivals some of the best parts are getting to connect with other filmmakers who have the same interest. By creating a venue of a certain taste, a crowd of people with similar styles will meet and can network, Koury found this to be one of the best reasons to go t o festivals. This is going to be my first Visions Film Festival and Conference class and I am excited to see how the incoming filmmakers react to the mixers and how excited we can make them.
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