Exam & Your Final Portfolio

Ciao, studenti!

And so, the end is here at last!  It's time for your final submissions for grading.

Here's what I'm looking for:

• 8 PLN Summaries
• Your Final Portfolio Presentation
• Course Review Write Up

You have extra credit opportunities with:

• Times Change Essay
• Cubist Photography Assignment
• Any Extra Work You've Done/Multimedia Assets You've Made

For your Final Portfolio, I will be looking for the following:

• 3 Strongest Quote Slides (from PRESI Project Two)
• 20 of Your Strongest Photos Broken Down As:
• 4 from Architecture
• 4 from People and Culture
• 4 from Pattern and Color
• 4 from Horizons
• 4 from Macros
• These all should come from your work in PHOTO Project One - The Great Beginning
• AUDIO Coming Soon
• VIDEO Stop Mo Intro
• VIDEO Mashup
• VIDEO Commercial
• Any extra credit work (like additional photos, videos, cubist imagery should be included at the end of the slideshow)

Altogether, that's 27 pieces of work from various assignments completed over the semester.

You can submit your Final Portfolio in two ways.

• As either a complete VIDEO file, i.e. a movie with all the work playing in sequence
• Or as a PRESENTATION, i.e. a Powerpoint

If you opt for a VIDEO, put it all together in iMovie as one long movie.  Upload that movie to Google Docs and share the link with me.

If you opt for a PRESENTATION, you're to build and share all of it with me (editing privileges to bencapozzi@mac.com) in a Google Docs Presentation.

Style is nice, and will help your score but not hurt it.  I'm more concerned about the work, so don't lose a lot of sleep about the template and fonts you use, etc.  But DO please make sure that you have proper headlines for each section to indicate what I'm looking at, i.e. "PATTERN & COLOR" followed by the four photos, etc.  If you're building a PRESENTATION, put no more than 2 photos to a single slide.

Keep in mind that some of these were group assignments, so make sure you know who your teammates are/were and you can get a copy of the file you need to embed in your presentations.  Be aggressive about tracking those items down; it is YOUR responsibility.

Some of the files and formats will be TOO BIG to embed in your Google Docs Presentations.  Therefore, I will definitely accept links to files located outside of your presentation.

To receive full credit, I am looking for your shared presentation by MONDAY, DECEMBER 13th at 5PM.  Anything submitted after that stands a poor chance of being looked at and graded.

Buon fortuna!

~MrC

VIDEO Commercials Project Revised - Due 12/8

All,

The Commercial Project is NOT due tonight, as some of you have feared.  You do need an idea before you leave tonight, but the final projects are due the last day of class, Wednesday 12/8.  I've made other changes to the project to reflect the short time we have left.  Check it out by following the link in the Course Documents list at right.

~MrC

EXTRA CREDIT - Cubist Photography

All,

If you're concerned that you may need more work for your final portfolio, additional practice, or another challenge, you've got all three in this bonus assignment I'm offering for extra credit.  It's a Cubist Photography challenge that is not technically too difficult, but will require soem thought.  Because it's for extra credit, attention to detail (i.e. read instructions), I'll only give full credit if it's done as specified.  If you have any questions, just ask.

~MrC

Changes to Final PLN Summaries

Ciao, Studenti!

I want to update you on some changes I've made to the final PLN Summaries due.  There is now just ONE due with a due date of this Saturday, December 4th.  I've changed the schedule at right to reflect this change.  Furthermore, it's not an audio podcast, but rather a traditional written PLN Summary using Google Docs just like all the previous ones you've submitted over the semester.  Since I'd planned for everyone to submit 8 over the semester, and this change brings us to just 7, I'm giving each of you full credit on an 8th summary you won't actually be writing.

That being said, many of you are missing many PLN summaries.  These are easy ways to show your involvement in the class, in multimedia trends and news, and if you know you haven't submitted some of these, it is not too late to turn them in for partial credit.  I submit to you that even partial credit is better than NO credit.

~MrC

End of Semester Update

Students,

I wanted to update you briefly on the end of the semester activities for the class.

• The commercial projects are changed.  You are not required to make them in collaboration with a classmate.  Getting together has proven especially difficult for some of you, so this is no longer required.  If you've started working with peers and it's going well, rock on.  If not, you may continue with your own resources.  Either way, you are ultimately responsible for producing the final commercial.
  
  ALSO, the due date for the commercials is moved to the final day of class, 12/8.
  
  
• The Museum Project has also proved especially hard to coordinate this semester.  I will provide more details on this in class, but you will likely be turning in only a plan of action or outline.
  
  
• We will use our allotted exam time, TBA, to present your final portfolios.  So while next Wednesday the 8th is our last class, we WILL meet again during exam week to present your portfolios.

We'll discuss more in class.  Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

~MrC

Times Change

New technologies make older ones (aka, formerly new technologies) irrelevant.  See below.

Imagine if you were working with old media and designing content on Linotype machines with lead letters instead of MacPro towers and software.


"Linotype: The Film" Teaser from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.

Now, seriously, imagine that.  In a short essay, 300-500 words, talk about a specific technology that's changed in your lifetime.  It should be one that impacts you directly.  Talk about how it's changed things for you.  Digital publishing made your favorite magazine stop putting out a print edition?  You can no longer find a good music CD store because everything's online now?  You never knew you'd be a DJ/Movie maker, but your computer makes it so easy to explore, you think you may have a career in it?

From pocket cameras to streaming TV online, we live in a world awash in gadgets and rapidly evolving technologies.  This class has involved you working with some of it which you likely have not worked with before, and more and more of this stuff you see outside the classroom and in the hands of semi-professional and even amateurs.  Write about it.  Submit your essay as a Google Doc titled "ART 130 Fall 2010 - Times Change Essay - bcapozzi."  (Substituting your name for mine.)  I'd like these by 5Pm this Friday, 11/12.

~MrC

Local Job Openings

Students,

Just passing along a note about several Job Listings at EBI in Danville, VA.  They're an upholstered furniture and mattress maker.  Admittedly not Multimedia jobs, but I wanted to share.

Find the job descriptions on the page below:

http://www.svhed.org/index.php/workforce-assessment-a-advancement

Or contact Dr. Nettie Simon-Owens, SVHEC Director of Workforce Assessment & Advancement, at nettiesimon-owens@svhed.org or 434-572-5477.

~MrC