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 Shefsiek, a History professor who has studied how historical document and artifacts should be displayed.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
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