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

Class Tonight 10/27

Ciao, Studenti!

Tonight, we're going to go over planning for the SoBo Museum project introduced last Saturday, before beginning our first Audio Project.  It's gonna be good!

~MrC

Class Tonight, 10/20

Ciao, studenti!

A couple things for tonight's class:

1) Your assignment for tonight –your first VIDEO assignment– is posted at right at the bottom of the Course Documents Online list. You'll be using digital cameras, Apple iMovie, and classmates to create short stop-motion videos.

2) Notice that I've changed the due date for your first podcast PLN from this Saturday, 10/23 to the following Saturday, 10/30.  We will go over podcasting during next Wednesday's class, 10/27.

3) Remember the class will meet this Saturday, 10/23 at the South Boston Museum.

We will not be going over your slideshows in critique tonight, nor will we plan the client project.  We'll save the critique for next week, and the planning of the client project for Saturday morning, when we actually meet with the client at the SoBo Museum at 1540 Wilborn Ave (directions embedded in the map below).

~MrC


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This Week - 10/20 and 10/23

Ciao, studenti!

A quick note about class this week.

Wednesday night I have some in class activities for you including a photography exercise AND sharing your slideshows. We're also going to plan a group activity for a client involving audio and video. It will be very important that you be available this Saturday between 10 and 12. I know Saturdays are usually reserved for lab time, but this Saturday you really need to be available. More details in class.

~MrC

iPhone Subway Band

Thought this was cool, courtesy Mr Cherry who put it on my radar.



Which do you think has more impact:  the technology that allows them to use their pocket phones to play and record their performance, or the technology that enables them to broadcast it to millions for free?

Regardless, remember: You are them.

~MrC