One Last Meeting?

Hey I know the end of the year is 24 hours away. But if you guys wanted to meet up One Last Time just to get things as complete as possible after this critique I think that would boost our success to the project. Please let me know who can or cannot, I am eager to contribute in any way to finish this. Thanks again!

-Chris

Libbey factory images in HW folder

Libbey factory images are almost done uploading. There are some good ones there, also some not so good one. But definitely enough to make a nice little sequence with a few panning stills.

THESE ARE CONTEMPORARY SHOTS FOR THE FACTORY TOURS SECTION.

Not historic!

Gas Video Last 24 hours

Attached is the punch list of what needs to be done for tomorrow.

Heather has to take the video at 5pm tomorrow (Thursday) to the GAS Committee meeting.

We need to start the render before 1pm.

We would like to meet in the morning to finalize everything. In particular in the next 12 hours, we need all of the remaining images gathered and graphics created, and copied onto the server in the new "4May_NEW_stuff" folder. Please carefully NAME every file and put them in a carefully named folder.

*** As you gather the source images / finish graphics, please copy them into that folder AND also make a new post here. That way everyone will be emailed as the sources arrive.

I will be here all night and morning, but everyone must meet here before 11:00am. Please POST your schedules and respond if you have an exam or conflict. We NEED everyone here tonight and tomorrow!

Notification

Team,

First of all, we are meeting with Hanson for the last time tomorrow morning at 10am. This means we are meeting in the union, the usual place, at about 9:25am. Who wants to drive?

Secondly, this project is due on Friday. I am not getting responses from people about what they have been working on and it is frustrating. We all have other finals to worry about, but no one is any more or less busy than the next. Please do your share of the work from here until Critique, we are a team. Half of your punch list items need to be done by the meeting tomorrow morning. Please email me if you have any questions.

-Michelle

Tasks to The End!!!

Attached is an image file of each person's tasks for us all to complete this project. Please comment back if you have questions, concerns or any other additional information that might have been missed or need to be included before the Final Critique. Peace!

Final Critique Overview:

Here are the notes I took during the critique earlier today, Please feel free to add any notes that I may have missed:

Intro
-Add map in the beginning that says something about the conference
-Cut clips in half, and add more videos... needs to be even quicker

Beginning
-Fix archival images (take away the distortion)
-Add names of artists on the archival images
-Get footage of the marbles from the museum (Monday)

Middle
-Make cuts and shorten

End
-Fix the white type, make more readable
-Add more b-roll for the conference section
-Add two lifetime award winners, Bertil and Joel Meyer
-Get a second shot of the outside of the TMA for the second time it is shown (Monday)
-Messenger Studio outside shot?
-Pilkington indoor shots?
-Keep Voiceover , but get rid of the last shot of Jack?



See you all tomorrow for our last Friday critique tomorrow at 11:30
-Michelle

Reminder

Hi team,

This is just a reminder that we are going to be meeting tomorrow night at 8:30 in the class room for the last time before our critique on Thursday. Jutta said that she is going to try to come to the critique so we all need to put as much into these last few days as we can, it is a team effort. We are almost done, hang in there!

-Michelle

Music Votes

Alright, I agree, Chicken Dinner's friggen awesome. Got to use that. Meanwhile, leaving the comments section for the top three music votes bit.

Map Bits

The supposed list of schools that have glass programs that's on the blog? I have searched twice now and I still haven't found it. Found this: http://www.memories-in-glass.com/glass-programs.html . Not sure if this is a good resource or not, but I can't find the list that's on here, sooo...

- Nathan Day

Meeting tomorrow

What happened to everyone working on stuff for tomorrow's meeting?

We are meeting at about 8:20 in the union in front of the bookstore and have the meeting with Hanson from 9-10am. After the meeting we are going to get the rest of our "Toledo Shots". I am going to be sending everyone the username and password for the music via email by the way. Be on time tomorrow and i'll see you there!

-Michelle

Scratch my old query that was here, I figured it out.

B-Roll Bins

Hey Team,

I made 4 bins in the Master Project_final project. These are for the best B-roll shots pertaining to their section of the video. Use the Excel doc GasShotList_4-5.xls to reference where the B-roll footage is supposed to go.

Only pick some of the best shots.. 2-3 at most.

Home Stretch

Here are the things we need to finish before Thursday's meeting with Hanson:

-Have all placeholders inserted
-Have ½ of b-roll placed
-Have motion graphics 2/3 done
-Have music selection narrowed down to a handful of songs



Here are the things that we still need to shoot/get by the end of the week:

-Footage of 5/3 Field from the sculpture group
-Night shot of 280 bridge
-Factory shots to match the archival images of both Libbey and Pilkington
-Finalized nametags from Drew
-Shots of people walking in to the Toledo Zoo, with the Zoo sign
-Shot of a sign that says, “Welcome to Toledo”?



Since we will all already be together on Thursday in Maumee for the meeting with Hanson, I say lets just go to Toledo from there and finish getting as much footage as possible: Both factories, Zoo, “Welcome to Toledo”

What do you all think, does this sound good? This way we will have all footage done and shot and will just need to sub-clip it and pop it in with the rest of the b-roll.
Comment and let me know!

-Michelle

Transcription Thus Far:

Spots with (?)'s are spots where the hissing made it either unclear, or the spelling's questionable.

Beginning

Brian:

The Glass Art Movement really began here in Toledo in 1962 when two workshops were held and Otto Wittman who was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art then invited Harvey Littleton who was the intellectual driving force for the Glass Movement to come here and subsequently in the next few years from 1966 through 1971 served the exhibitions were organized inviting individual glass artists to come to Toledo, and then a major exhibition was held in '71 which declared that this individual glass making had now become a team effort, not just in America, but around the world.

Jack:

Well first of all, the conference is commemerating what is consittered the the launch of the

contemporary glass movement. The workshop was held here in the uh early part of 1962, uh, we're really the beginning what we were all involved in.

Well, Toledo goes way back, um, the New England Glass Company moved here in the late 1800s, and, uh, fell by the name of Edward Jahman(?) Libbey who build the Libbey Company here in Toledo, and started producing hand-blown glass table wear. We have Mike Owens, uh, working for Libbey, and coming up with the idea of making a machine that actually automatically blows vessel forms and table wear... We have part of the Ford Family coming into Toledo and figuring out uh other processes of, uh, for flat glass or related products, um, Pilkington Glass, which is a formally owned American Company, makes miles and miles of sheet glass, just across the river. We have John's Manville(?) which produces uh fiberglass. Uh, John's Manville(?), interestingly enough, um, produced a product that helped get the first glass workshop going! They made what is known as uh um 475 marble. That marble is what Labino brought to the first workshop for the students to melt, and then blow glass from.

Because the, the, the Cruicible's in the system Harvey brought wasn't working quite as well as it should, and Nick, who knew about and was, was interested in the workshop solved that problem by going out to John's Manville(?), and bringing these marbles to the workshop.

Middle

Brian:

I was attracted to come to Toledo because it has a marvelous museum which has multiple buildings, each of which has won archetectural awards. The collection is singular with great works by great artists whose names we know and don't know throughout time. It's free and open to the public, that'sbeen important to me, and it has been hugely supported by it's community over the years.

Jack:

I'm Jack Schmidt, uh, Artist, Glass Artist, "Maker of Things", and I reside here in the City of

Glass, Toledo. Uh, I actually came back East from California, and coincidentally ended up back in Toledo, which happens to be my home town. Um, I actually own property over in the state of New York and was going to open a studio there but I had rented a warehouse here, and um... it was very inexpensive, so when I came back to think about what I was doing I needed to make some work, so I unpacked some things to make some work... and I never left. It's pretty nicely located for me in terms of New York, Chicago, Point South, I still had family in the area when I came back, I still have a brother that lives in the area, and frankly I had connections to some of the corporations in town which helped me kind of launch from a teaching career into an independant artist career. Well I think just kind of going back to what I just said, there's a lot of available space in the area that's relatively inexpensive... um, and we have of course a terrific museum which draws in artists from all over the world, uh, in all media, not to mention glass. Our new Glass Pavillion has been a big draw for, uh, a lot of very well known glass artists. Uh... and the community is pretty supportive of the arts, uh, we have a really active Jazz community in town, and a really fine orchestra that plays at the museum, and then at the zoo at their amphatheatre. I think that, uh, when people come here they're going to be suprised how much is going on. I think they're going to enjoy visiting the studios we have and seeing the kind of work that's being done... uh, and if you're coming into the area, there are, excuse me, there are studios in Collumbus, there are studios in Cleveland, uh, Ohio has an awful lot of activity in the glass arts. So, um, you might want to stay a while, you know, and check it out.

Brian:

The Toledo Museum of Art is one of the great glass collections of the world, we're honored to have an extraordinary pavillion here in which we have examples from all around the world actually from the start of glass making so it's one of the best places to come. The Toledo Museum of Art has one of the world's great glass collections from the beginning of glass making right through to today and can show it in a marvelous building: the Glass Pavillion, opened in 2006. Every work of glass that we aquire for the Museum is subject to the same criteria that we apply to every single work that comes into the museum, it has to be of significant quality, I mean really the best of it's time. It has to be of technical virtuosity and it has to have real imagination and creativity so that it really engages the public emotionally.

Update 4/13

Hi team.

I just want to say that you are all doing a great job with keeping up with individual tasks and the project as a whole. We are almost in the homestretch! Speaking of homestretch's.... the Mudhen's opening night is tomorrow night and we had talked about going and shooting this, or at least people walking up to the gates, to get some more shots of "people in toledo". Who can go?

On another note... We ARE meeting with Hanson this Friday, (1pm is the time we will plan on for now unless they can do it earlier) so like last week our things need to be uploaded to the class folder on the server by Thursday at around 9pm. In the folder we should have:

-Bucketed transcriptions and the actual video put together in that order
-A new outline with the new transcribed portions from Jack Schmidt's interview
-A few examples of the motion graphics we want to do with the archival photos
-The name tags Drew is working on
-A schedule with the rest of the semester mapped out
(Tomorrow we need to make sure we have all of our video to date digitized)

...I may be missing a few things so go ahead and make a comment if you can think of something else! Heather will be back tomorrow so if you didnt turn in your time sheets you can do that tomorrow.
See you tomorrow!
-Michelle

Fire Nation Complete

That is all...

RESPOND ASAP

Hi team,

I got a hold of both of the last 2 interviews/shoots of artists. Baker O'Brien has contacted the toledo news station and they are going to let us use some footage that they already have of her and dominick labino blowing glass!! The other artist (from firenation) said that wednesday morning at like 9:30/10 am would work best for a good demonstration. I have class at 10:30 so I cannot, I need to know ASAP from everyone (definitely by tomorrow) so i can get back to them and not be rude. Also for the footage from the news station... i have to contact that person as well but i want to be able to tell them when we can go so it will either be tuesday or thursday. I'll keep you updated...

please respond back with your availabilities for Wednesday morning!!! We need to get this shoot and it is looking like our only chance!

Reminder

Hello team,

Your individual assignments need to be in the folder for Hanson_thursday by 10pm tonight so Christian can copy everything to the Hard Drive for tomorrow's meeting.

Just a reminder that we are meeting in the union, 1st floor outside of the bookstore @ 8:15!

Organizing

I organized Brian Kennedy into the three of four sequences he was mapped to be in. I put in a dummy file to substitute as a placeholder for the Jack Schmidt interview placements, so once that's subclipped it can be placed where the dummy clip right now lodges. I have them listed as: Intro, Beginning, Middle, and End, just like the chart. If the chart's stuck to, this should be relatively simple to map out.

- Nathan Day

HANSON PLAN

Things to include in the Hanson folder for Thursday:
Documents:
-Kennedy Transcription
-Schmidt Transcrription
-New Excel Outline
-Archival images that go with sections
-Document with adjectives for sound
-Schmidt Subclips
-New Kennedy Subclips
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Individual assignments:
Chris:
-Come up with adjectives for music/some samples
Nathan:
-Organize Brian Kennedy interview into 4 sequences (Intro, History, Now and Conference)
Jarrhette:
-Subclip Schmidt Interview
Christian:
-Digitize collectors video, put all info from folder onto hard drive
Michelle:
-Sort through archival images

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Hanson Address:
1625 Indian Wood Circle Maumee, OH 43537
-30 minutes travel

Hanson

Meeting Day: Thursday

Meeting Time: 8:15

Meeting Location: Union First Floor, Outside of Bookstore

Interview

So Christian and I got the last interview that we forgot earlier. All should be well. By the way, we should add Christian to the blog so that he is aware of whats going on too, unless he is already on here?

Collector's Interview tomorrow

Hello team,

I have picked up all of the equipment for tomorrow's shoot.
-Christian we need some tapes, either bring the old ones or some new ones please.

We are taking two different cars, myself and Christian are going to be driving. We are meeting no later than 10:20am! If you are late we will leave you (sorry).

I am going to have the release forms and directions as well as the few questions that we will be asking.

If you have any questions just let me know!
-Michelle

Critique Overview_3/29

Hello team,

Tuesday's critique went a lot better than the last two. Great job! I believe that we all have put in a lot of work and it showed. Here are the notes from the critique, we will have a follow-up meeting today to disperse the rest of the filming among the group:

BRIAN KENNEDY INTERVIEW
-Need new b-roll for the B. Kennedy interview
-Need to figure out permissions for the B. Kennedy/Frank Stella issue

GLASS PAVILION DEMO
-Adjust exposures
-Fix jittering when zooming in to punch bowl in the pavilion sequence

JACK SCHMIDT
-Filter window in top left corner
-Transcribe

ARCHIVAL PHOTOS
-Need to finalize a list of images that we need from UT and/or Corning

280 BRIDGE
-Need night shots, and possibly new day shots with sun shining
-Contact person about when the lights on the bridge will be what colors

OTHER SHOTS OF TOLEDO TO DO STILL
-Peristyle, empty and full, April 8th (Frank Stella event)
-Pilkington Factory
-Libbey Building
-Labino Studio (Archibold)
-Owens-Corning (headquarters Toeldo)
-Owens-Illinois (Perrysburg)
-First Solar (this is a maybe, it is hard to get in to)
-Contact Laura Donefer for the video on the Glass Fashion Show

Critique on Tuesday

Team,

We need to get together possibly Monday night and get all of our files organized that we will be showing on Tuesday. I have posted things before and asked that you all comment back but no one ever does. Please post on here what time you could meet Monday night to get this stuff together.

Also who has the cameras and tri-pods? Have you uploaded the footage?

Light Kit

So the light kit wont fit in my car, it's too big and my car is too small. Who is driving tomorrow other than me? Will it fir in your car?

-Michelle

Library

Okay folks I need help...

There is literally too much information and pictures to capture in this library. I had an awesome adventure and conversation with the workers here about glass, Toledo and the whole history behind it all. I took about 4-5 good photos from some old catalogs of Libbey Glass but we must be even more specific as to what we want to add in our footage. By the time I found the place and opened the boxes to take the photos it was time for me to leave... no problem though. I feel like once we get our "moving footage" together. These photos will add a dazzling touch to compliment the whole project. Good stuff! Let me know what you think!

Jack Schmidt video

Hey Jarrhette, Heather would like for you to re-watch that video on Jack Schmidt and see what he was able to talk about. Look for thins that we could possibly ask him too. I know it's a little last minute for tomorrow's class, but since we are meeting with him on Friday it would be best if you knew tomorrow so we could finalize our questions list. Thanks, we all appreciate it!

-Michelle

Library Photos

Chris:

I think that we have now successfully retrieved the boxes that you want
to access. They are on a book truck in our reading room with your name
on them.

Kim

Kimberly Brownlee
Manuscripts Librarian and Assistant University Archivist
Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections
University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft St.
Toledo, OH 43606
419-530-5578

Friday's Events

Hello Team,

This Friday is our interview with Jack Schmidt. Please look over his Bio before we go up there. The interview is at 11am and it is about 30 minutes away. Plan to meet in the parking lot outside of the art building (between the wolf center and the library) at 10:15am. We will need to take two cars to fit us all. I can drive separately because I have to meet someone after we are done. Who else is willing to drive?

*Also, Friday night Chris has offered to go back up to Toledo to shoot the night shot of the bridge and also the "pub scenes" of Toledo. Who can go with him?

EVERYONE PLEASE RESPOND BY THURSDAY NIGHT

-Michelle

Missing Info for Pictures

Each collection has a different mss number. For example, O-I is MSS-200, LOF is MSS-66. The list of folders that you are interested in gave box and folder numbers, but did not include which of our collections the boxes and folders are from. As is, for example, I would have to search for Box 1, folders 9-12, in both collections (or others, depending on where you pulled this information from) to try to find what you’re looking for.

So, I will have to have the collection numbers before I can pull them. You will see the number on page 1 of each of the finding aids.

Kim

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From: Chris W Carter [mailto:chriswc@bgsu.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 10:32 AM
To: Brownlee, Kimberly Hieronimus
Subject: Re: links

Is thay something that we forgot to put on the list or is that something that you will be doing first to make sure everything is correct





Christoper W. Carter Jr.

~Digital Arts

~Music Performance

~The Falcon Marching Band 2007-2009

~African People's Association Treasurer 2010-2011

~Black Student Union
http://ccarteronline.com

"After all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.

Let your Yes mean Yes and your No mean No...

----- Reply message -----
From: "Brownlee, Kimberly Hieronimus"
Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 9:32 am
Subject: links
To: "Chris W Carter"

Chris:

I will need to know which of the collections each of these items are
located in before I can start pulling them for you.

Kim

Kimberly Brownlee
Manuscripts Librarian and Assistant University Archivist
Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections
University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft St.
Toledo, OH 43606
419-530-5578

"Sometimes, you know, it's necessary to go backward in order to go
forward. That's an analogy of life." MLK Jr.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris W Carter [mailto:chriswc@bgsu.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 1:42 PM
To: Brownlee, Kimberly Hieronimus
Subject: RE: links

Hello Miss Kimberly!

This is Chris from BGSU. Attached is a document list of all of the
photos we would like to have/review for our glass video. I plan on going
up there on Tuesday to pick take a look at the photos so if they can be
available then that would be great. Please let me know what you think or
if you needed anything. Thanks!

Christoper W. Carter Jr.
~Digital Arts
~Music Performance
~The Falcon Marching Band 2007-2009
~African People's Association Treasurer 2010-2011
~Black Student Union
http://ccarteronline.com
"After all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.
Let your Yes mean Yes and your No mean No...
________________________________________
From: Brownlee, Kimberly Hieronimus [KIMBERLY.BROWNLEE@utoledo.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:26 PM
To: Chris W Carter
Subject: links

Chris:

Here is a link to our glass collections. I would suggest that you focus
on O-I & LOF. Once I find the preliminary inventory to the photos in
O-C I will send that as well. There are a lot to look at so you might
want to take an extra day. O-I alone takes up an entire room (not all
photos, but the collection). It would help me to be better able to help
you if I knew what boxes that you would like to see ahead of time. That
way I can have them ready for you.

Once you have identified what you might want to use, I will call my
contact people and request permission. Usually it doesn't take very
long (like maybe a day or two, tops) and as I mentioned, they have never
told me no. I personally just require it as a courtesy to them.

Also, I would strongly suggest arriving here on campus as early AM as
possible to avoid as many parking issues as you can.

http://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/guidepages/glass.html

Kim

Kimberly Brownlee
Manuscripts Librarian and Assistant University Archivist
Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections
University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft St.
Toledo, OH 43606
419-530-5578


"Sometimes, you know, it's necessary to go backward in order to go
forward. That's an analogy of life." MLK Jr.

Things to do

TUESDAY 3/22
Email images to Toledo Library with proper information
Edit footage that we have for Thursday’s critique- ND, CD
Get questions ready for the Jack Schmidt interview on Friday 25th
Reserve equipment for Friday


THURSDAY 3/24
In-progress critique #3- CC, ND, CD, JB, MR

FRIDAY 3/25
Interview Jack Schmidt at his studio at 11am – CC, CD, ND, JB, MR

TUESDAY 3/29
If nice weather, get shots of the zoo and Toledo looking great
Digitize Jack Schmidt footage

THURSDAY 3/31
Work on editing film
Shoot any more Toledo scenes that we still need
Prepare for shoot of collectors house tomorrow @ 2pm

FRIDAY 4/1
Shoot of collectors glass collection

Pavilion shot and driving back

Christian, Michelle and I got some great footage from the glass pavilion. Just an update.... hope things are getting done in class.

Heather Update:

Since only Jahrette and I were here, Heather met with me to give feedback. She saw the resync'd footage, and high-fived with how we were able to save the Brian Kennedy work with the shots from Camera 1. So it's solid: We have an interview that isn't shit, now we just need more (and for the Glass people to give us a damn script, but that's not really anything in our power right this moment).

Anyway, she had me write some notes, they were brief, so it'll be short:

o We need Drew to make nameplates, from picking a font to otherwise designing a trendy setup. For our current (and only) working interview, it should be organized like:

Brian Kennedy

Director, Toledo Museum of Art

Set the setting to Preset > Film & Video, HDV 1080, in Photoshop. She conveniently screencapped it:

o Note to self: Rename the Artworks Footage.

o Use video markers in the video as B-Roll Guides.

o We should have a vector of the logo to possibly have in the corner of our video, which will then be made transparent within Final Cut itself. Up to us if we wait until they give us a conference logo or we simply use their actual logo:

o Heather showed possibilities to try to make the archival footage more engaging than something you'd see on the history channel. Not going to use that image drag she implimented as even she said it was horribly campy, but even so, there is possibility there.

So yes, it's mostly notes for me, but the vector (preferably vector, I guess it doesn't have to be) of the logo and the nameplates are something outside of the editing notes.

Otherwise, did the work I was tasked, and here are the notes I notepadded about it:

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Z0000132.jpg - Float Glass?

Z0004534.jpg - Float Glass

dfe44eeb.jpg - Is this Bertil Vallien? Same glasses, similar facial mask, but... is it?

Woman Applying Decoration.jpg - Bottle Machine?

Glass Art Society Logo - FOUND (not conference, just normal)

REMINDERS

Labino013.tif - Matches Math Science piece.

Scientific American Pict.tif - Glass Bowl from Pavillion

Meeting This Friday 03/18

Hello team,

What do you all think about changing out meeting place to the art building this Friday so we can get some work done and show Drew what we have been working on so he can start brainstorming ideas for the text we need?

Does anyone know if there are classes in the Mac lab on Fridays?

-Michelle

Footage Synched!

Just saying. It is.

Also, for future syncing, Heather gave me a convenient widget that does the work for us for the sync timing. Still a bit of a hassle, but very very convenient.

- Nathan Day

Assignments for Thursday 3/17

Hello team,

For Thursday:

Chris, Christian and I are going to be going to the pavilion to shoot the glass demo with Jeff Mack. He said to be there between 10:30 and 11am. Lets leave from the art building at 10:20am. I will reserve the 2 cameras and 2 tri-pods tonight.
-We will also be shooting some outdoor footage of the museum and the pavilion while we are up there.
-Chris would you like to drive again?

Nathan:
-We talked in class today about you digitizing the footage Chris and Jarrhette got from the 280 bridge. Do this and if you get done and have time to spare start to go through the archival photos on the server and pull the images that we will be needing according to the shot list that is also in the folder on the server. Put these images in a new folder.
-Bertil Vallien (winner)

Jarrhette:
-Please go to the blog to the post about the library (go to the feb. link on the side and you should see it there)
-Go to the link provided and look at all of the sources (unfortunately there aren't any real photos) and pick out the images we think we will need for our video (we need images of the factories/industrial photos and some images of Toledo).
-I have started a list of images I think we need so if you could finish this by the end of class and re-post it to the server.
-Nathan knows what to do so if you have any questions please ask him since he will be in class as well.

280

My Location@12:23pm,3/15 1600-1630 Front St, Toledo, OH 43605 http://m.google.com/u/m/zrpdTc

Assignments for Tomorrow's class

I am waiting to hear back from Jeff Mack about coming tomorrow to shoot the glass pavilion again, but while we are waiting:

Chris and Jarrhette: Can you shoot the 280 bridge tomorrow? One of you would need to check out a camera and tri-pod tonight and make sure the battery is fully charged before going up there.
-Please comment back and let me know that you got this message.
-I will let Heather know that you two are "on assignment" so she does not mark you absent.

Nathan and Christian:
There is a chance that we will be going up to the Pavilion tomorrow (or Thursday) to shoot a demonstration. I am just waiting on a reply from Jeff Mack like I mentioned above. I will reserve two cameras and tri-pods just in case. Christian, do you think we will need the light kit for a demonstration since they wont be in one stationary place?
-If we aren't going tomorrow (I will post asap when I find out) then we have PLENTY of other things to work on.

Everyone please comment and let me know that you have gotten this message!
Thanks guys
-Michelle

Spring Break Update

Hello team,
I hope everyone has had a relaxing spring break because it is almost time to kick it in to high gear with this project! I do have some good news though, Christian has been added to our group full time (the school of art video was canceled) and I think he will be a great addition.
I will keep you all updated with the schedule of things the next few days before class and try to get a few things rolling for Tuesday. Be prepared to divide and conquer and please comment back when things are assigned so I know that you know what needs to be done. See you all Tuesday!

-Michelle

Transcription of Brian Kennedy

To give a heads up: This is the transcription of how I'd reorganized it, as that's the file I had on me to use. I can easilly reorganize this into the original order if we need that done when I get back.
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Everybody says to me "What is so great about Toledo?" I want to tell you: It's people. These are some of the most wonderful warm inviting people you'll ever meet. The Toledo Museum of Art is one of the great glass collections of the world, we're honored to have an extraordinary pavillion here in which we have examples from all around the world actually from the start of glass making so it's one of the best places to come. The Toledo Museum of Art has one of the world's great glass collections from the beginning of glass making right through to today and can show it in a marvelous building: the Glass Pavillion, opened in 2006. I was attracted to come to Toledo because it has a marvelous museum which has multiple buildings, each of which has won archetectural awards. The collection is singular with great works by great artists whose names we know and don't know throughout time. It's free and open to the public, that's been important to me, and it has been hugely supported by it's community over the years. Every work of glass that we aquire for the Museum is subject to the same criteria that we apply to every single work that comes into the museum, it has to be of significant quality, I mean really the best of it's time. It has to be of technical virtuosity and it has to have real imagination and creativity so that it really engages the public emotionally. The Glass Art Movement really began here in Toledo in 1962 when two workshops were held and Otto Wittman who was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art then invited Harvey Littleton who was the intellectual driving force for the Glass Movement to come here and subsequently in the next few years from 1966 through 1971 served the exhibitions were organized inviting individual glass artists to come to Toledo, and then a major exhibition was held in '71 which declared that this individual glass making had now become a team effort, not just in America, but around the world. This city is exciting, it's got lots of secrets to show you, and of course some public ones like the Toledo Museum of Art, come, have a great time, you'll enjoy yourselves.

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Time taken: 1.25 hours.

Mid-term Followup:

Hello team.
Our mid-term critique has given our team quite the wake-up call and I am hoping that it will help to kick start us into overdrive these next few weeks. Here are some things from the notes that I took during our critique that we need to pay extra attention to.

1. From now on we need to do some sketches of how we want our cameras to be set up at all of our photo shoots.

2. We need to have all footage shot by the end of the first week of April.

3. No more shooting without the use of tri-pods. We can't afford to have to re-shoot.

4. We need to truley divide and conquer. There will be an updated schedule on the blog/server by the end of break with individual assignments.

5. Finally, we really need to come together as a team and work like one. This is all of our responsibilitiy and I know that we can do it and prove anyone who thinks we can't, wrong.

Nathan has already posted the things he will be working on over break. Let's all comment on here and write if you can do anything over break, or what you will be doing before the next class. Have a good break.

-Michelle

Buckling Down

So, critique was brutal, but I mean with what we had we couldn't exactly receive praise.

Things I'll need before we finish our interviews to make this video great:

o: Graphic-based introduction, displaying the Glass Art Conference Name, Logo, and presenting beginning credits of those interviewed, as well as the voice over person.

o: Name Plate Designs to have in front of the speakers, complete with space to fit their name and their title/profession.

> For these, we'll also need a list of names and their titles/professions to put into those nameplates, as well as deciding on the proper font. Need to remember that this is presenting the *GLASS* Art Society, so having the nameplates be reflective of how glass looks might help put the entire design together in an easy to identify with way.

I can do these if need be, but I'd imagine it looking nicer with a graphic designer's touch, and for that matter be created faster.

I've seen the other camera's shot of Brian Kennedy now, it looks a little more promising. He's a little too centered, so I may need to do a zoom crop, and the audio's terrible, but I should be able to use the audio from the other camera and match them up. Realistically, if we use mostly B-Roll, then sync will matter less, but syncing up the audio from camera 2 with the visuals of camera 1 will still be a task I'll need to do regardless. While there's a good deal of stuff we're going to need to work on, it should be able to look professional with enough tweaking.

We're going to need to go to the glass pavilion again. The footage that was digitized today has some nice still shots with decent uses of zoom and panning, but it moves a bit fast on some of them (slowing the footage down makes it have an obvious slow motion look, so it'd look better to just do it again). The footage that I had to use for the video for today's critique meanwhile... we need to shoot *all* of those again, as we can't use the anti-shake filter on Final Cut, as it just makes the pieces look worse, plus takes ages to finish, when we really don't *have* ages to wait. Bright side is for the footage we need to do again, we can look at the flawed footage as something to help us plot out what spots to visit, and it can still help us storyboard which pieces to show in what order.

Our third in progress critique, according to the blog calendar, is in three weeks, including Spring Break as time between (so two class weeks). I refuse to have our presentation be that embarrassing after what happened today, so we're going to need to when we're back make that pavilion trip be the week we're back, no ifs, ands, or buts. We don't have much time, and I can't exactly edit phantom footage. It'd be great if we could land a second interview before that critique as it'd mean me being able to cross-play the footage and have multiple speakers align topics, and getting that voice over audio would actually be very helpful for me. We also need to check out the cameras the day before so we can make sure we have full batteries on the cameras (the footage tends to become blurrier or bizarrely colored usually on cameras with low batteries).

I'll be buying masking tape to put on the ground to keep our subjects centered, as the footage of Brian Kennedy on camera 2 was just awful, even to the point Heather called it "shit" at least three times. She didn't refer to any other shots seen in class with profane words, so that means it was *really* bad. Just a note for the future.

During critique, two matches were found: Scientific American image matching the bowl in the pavilion, and supposedly the math science building having the piece in Labino013.gif. If someone else wants to record the Math Science Building one, feel free, otherwise I'm tackling that the week we're back after my class from 1:00 to 1:50 ends.

It'd also be good to get the glass harmonica audio as soon as possible, as I have audio editting software, and also that audio could help me know what pace to have the glass pieces, voice over, and interviewed people follow, or if I'll need to tweak the speed of the glass harmonica to match those things, or if for that matter if we could even use it at all. Whatever we have to do, we need it ASAP, in the meantime I'll keep up my search for rights free glass audio, but if anyone else could help me search it'd mean more timesheet time and a higher turnout, since it's apparently hard to find.

Over Spring Break I'll be transcribing the audio from Brian Kennedy, and I'll make sure as we get more interviews to transcribe them as I digitize the footage to land two birds with one stone (since while digitizing it plays the footage anyway, might as well do both from here on). The voiceover audio would also be nice to have ASAP for transcribing, as it's not exactly a quick process, so whatever we need to do to get that audio, we need it. Badly. We can't wait until last minute for it as the transcribed interviews will help me know which footage to put where from B-Roll, or for that matter what footage we'll need to seek out to put there. It'd be weird to have the voiceover mention important topics and not be showing relevant footage for it.

I know this is horribly lengthy, but these are effectively based on the notes I took from the critique with some elaboration to also help me out, since things like Spring Break are amazing for getting off track.

- Nathan Day

Brian Kennedy Rough Footage

With the one tape I had on-hand, I used the glass footage and the footage we got of him (side profile) to put together a rough collection of how we could have it look. It's not reflective of how to make the final product look, but it's something that we can show to show we're indeed working hard to make this promotional video become a reality. It's on the server under the title "InProgressCritiqueVideo.mov". Feel free to watch it. The Final Cut files (include the raw digitized footage) are on the server as well under "Tuesday Footage 1".

Without the other tape on-hand I had far less variety to work with, especially since the batteries began dying near some of the more amazing glass pieces, so it's not 100% reflective of all of our work, but I feel the video captures what we're trying to go for, and if it doesn't, with additional footage we can make this thing become exponentially more amazing.

- Nathan Day

Logo

Hey guys, just wanted to check in with you and see how the progress was going since i wasnt able to meet up with you this week. i dont know if the conference has decided on a logo yet but i needed something to work on so i took a whack at it. let me know what you think and if you have any updates that i should be a aware of.

-Drew-

TONIGHT

Hello everyone,
This is just a reminder that we are having a very important group meeting tonight at 830, let's meet in the lobby of the gallery. We are going over our plans for tomorrows big interviews. We all need to be here. See you tonight.

-Michelle

MEETING MOVED

Since this weather is preventing some of us from getting to campus today, and since Nathan can't make it, we are moving our meeting to Monday night at 830 in the art building. We all HAVE to be there since we will be going over our plans for the Brian Kennedy interview for this upcoming Tuesday!If you have any questions, post them to the blog!

Meeting

Can everyone still make it today to our meeting, due this this weather?

Some footage of Toledo

Yeah so our camera died. Took some shots with my phone of random places. 280 bridge and other spots. We should definitely go back either Tuesday or a time where we can get both day and night. J and I found a good spot to shoot the bridge and some of the "skyline" hope you guys got some good  info from the library?

Lot's of UPDATES!

Hello Team,

We have a lot of updates to talk about since our last team meeting on Friday. In class Tuesday we made good progress. We got one of the 2 video's copied over to our file, information from the Toledo Library on some archival photos we would like to use and we also got some interviewing questions/bios done.

FOR THURSDAY
Two people will be going up to Toledo to shoot the 280 bridge. Chris has said that he wouldn't mind driving so either Nathan or Jarrhette, who wants to go with him?
I reserved a camera and tripod for this already in the ARC. I am also going to post the information on where Jutta has told us a good location to shoot the bridge would be.
Whoever doesn't go is going to be working with me on searching through all of the photos Chris has gotten from the Library (online) and figuring out which ones we would like to use so they can pull them for us later on.

NEXT TUESDAY
For next Tuesday I have gotten in contact with Brian Kennedy from the TMA and we are going to be going up there to interview him. We will need to leave as soon as class starts if not sooner to make our appointment of 11am. Lets figure out who can go earlier, since we may need to set up the light kit (if we need to drive 2 cars to get it done then that's what we will have to do i guess).

After our interview, Jutta would like to meet with us and show us around the glass pavilion and the pieces that she would like us to film/photograph. I am not sure how long this entire process will take. I am hoping that we can get both things done and be back by 12:50. Like I said before though, if we need to drive 2 cars to work in all of our schedules we will do that.

I have also been pretty good about keeping the calendar up to date, so if you have any questions about what we will be doing just refer to that! Okay guys I know this is a lot, but it's good and we are making the progress that we wanted to make before break! See you tomorrow,

-Michelle

Library Results!

Chris:

Here is a link to our glass collections. I would suggest that you focus on O-I & LOF. Once I find the preliminary inventory to the photos in O-C I will send that as well. There are a lot to look at so you might want to take an extra day. O-I alone takes up an entire room (not all photos, but the collection). It would help me to be better able to help you if I knew what boxes that you would like to see ahead of time. That way I can have them ready for you.

Once you have identified what you might want to use, I will call my contact people and request permission. Usually it doesn’t take very long (like maybe a day or two, tops) and as I mentioned, they have never told me no. I personally just require it as a courtesy to them.

Also, I would strongly suggest arriving here on campus as early AM as possible to avoid as many parking issues as you can.

http://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/guidepages/glass.html

Kim

Kimberly Brownlee

Manuscripts Librarian and Assistant University Archivist

Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections

University of Toledo

2801 W. Bancroft St.

Toledo, OH 43606

419-530-5578

"Sometimes, you know, it's necessary to go backward in order to go forward. That's an analogy of life." MLK Jr.

GOALS FOR 2/22/2011

TOMORROW'S CLASS GOALS:

Digitize Film
Refresher on Camera
Research people to be interviewed:
*Jack Schmidt
*Brian Kennedy
*Jeff Mach
Call Toledo Library for archival photos
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Chris: Call Toledo Library
Nathan: Digitize Film, Research and type up info. on Brian Kennedy
Jarrhette: Research and type up info. on Jack Schmidt and his studio (messenger studio?),
look up locations/set up days w/ locations
Michelle: Research and type up info. on Jeff Mach, look up locations/set up days w/ locations


P.S. WE ALSO NEED TO RESERVE A CAMERA AND TRIPOD FOR THURSDAY'S CLASS TO SHOOT THE 280 BRIDGE!!!

REMINDER

Remember that we are meeting tomorrow for our weekly group meeting.

See you there!

hey i found some videos of the older glass fashion shows. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zsFCDGUTgI&feature=related

Emailing

Email people to set up interviews and gather information:

1-Brian Kennedy - bkennedy@toledomuseum.org (TMA)-Marc Folk - mfolk@acgt.org (Arts Commission of Greater Toledo (ACGT)… has connections with the mayor when dealing with the arts)
2-Jeff Mack - jmack@toledomuseum.org – (studio manager at TMA)
3-Margy Trumbull - mtrumbull@bex.net (Glass collector in Toledo)
4-Diane Phillips - desp@bex.net (Glass collector in Toledo)
1-Sara Jane De Hoff - sjdehoff@gmail.com (Glass collector in Toledo)
2-Mike Delaney - mike.delaney@parkinn.com (Manager at the Park Inn Hotel)
3-Patty Cokus - patty@glassart.org (Seattle office of the Glass Art Society, has images / facts from submitted conference content for 2012)

***Compose emails based on your number and email them to me at Ruckerm@bgsu.edu so we can get them all sent out hopefully today! Also we need to come up with questions for our interviews as soon as possible please work on this as well.

Interviewing

Team,

This is important that you comment back asap. We hav an opportunity to interview Fritz Dreisbach tomorrow evening (Monday) at 6pm during Nadine's class. Since this is not our usual class time who can make it? There is also another opportunity to interview him at 2pm after our class on Tuesday. It is important that we interview him and we need to have as many of us there as possible. Please comment with which day or days you can attend.

Thanks,
Michelle

How American Studio Glass movement started in Toledo (1962)

Harvey Littleton/1962/Toledo

http://www.cmog.org/dynamic.aspx?id=1792
http://www.seekersglass.com/more_about_glass.htm

Tomorrow's Class

Hello team, in case you didn't know, the in-progress critique will be moved from tomorrow to this Thursday. I suggest that we spend part of tomorrow's class organizing what we will say and show during our presentation, which is going to be 20 minutes long (including time for feedback).

Another bit of information is that I found out when Fritz Dreisbach (visiting artist) is going to be doing his talk on 1962 and it will be next Tuesday at 1pm, so right after our class lets out. Please let me know if you will not be able to help with this!

See you all tomorrow!
Michelle

Things To Do

Client:

widescreen images in general = JT

second images of workshop comes from = JT

CBS footage =JT

Pictro headshot = JT

Kennedy interview =JT and then CG

*please group all files and footage together for ease of access instead of piecing information Dr. Page

connections to glass places to shoot = JT

Toledo Blade = JT or CG?

First solar = ask JT first

Old Conference images = JT then CG

3 Collectors = JT

Contact @ hotel = JT

Jeff Mach = JT contact CG interview/demonstration of glass.

Bobaco and others stil shots = JT and CG

Voiceover = JT? Write a script

Logo and Theme = JT

Stella Exhibitions = JT for time CG record

Classy Glass:

1^st shot of bridge = CG

Jack Schmidt =CG/HeatherStills =JT then CG

Gas archives =CG then approve by JT

Tatum piece = CG

GAS Journal = CG

Divide and Conquer

Beginning: History of Glass in Toledo
1-Libbey and commercial glass history: 1st ever glass bottle producing machine, Flat glass (used in the Ford model A car)
2-Pancakes=Flat glass inspiration
3-Archival photos of original factories
(Pilkington, Libbey contemporary factory shots)
Owens-Illinois
4-How American Studio Glass movement started in Toledo (1962)

1-Images of the museum (historical and now)
2-Archival photos of 1962 event
3-Most important names of Toledo glass artists (Dominick Labino (dead), who else?)
4-Chicago World's Fair (Libbey Owens factory was there)

Middle: How glass has evolved
1-TMA and new Pavilion
2-Studio glass – shots of contemporary Toledo area studios (Fire Nation, etc.)
3-Shots of people working in glass (hot/cold shops)
4-Utility vs. art glass

1-Old bottle producer vs. new one? How many it can make in a second compared to the 4 it could do when it was first invented?


End: The Conference
Why this region is important NOW
2-Going Green/ Solar Panels
3-BGSU, TMA, CCS, Ball State, OSU, Akron?, Kent programs
4-Glass collectors in Toledo

1-Public glass art in Toledo (Labino in Library)

How Toledo is cool
2-Why it really is called the "Glass City"
3-Cultural Events: Zoo, TMA, 5/3 field, Imagination Station, Library
4-Outdoors: metroparks, riverwalk

1-Pub Scene, fun

Highlights of the Conference (features)
2-Conference Hotel: Park Inn (nice shots of the lobby, etc.)
3-Lectures
4-Keynote: Wilson, Strattman, Labino

1-Gala event (shoot another black tie event @ pavilion)
2-Demonstrations (shoot Pavilion glass shop happening)
3-CMoG Roadshow (get images of the roadshow from past years)
4-Trade Show (need list of vendors – cool motion graphics of logos)

1-Exhibitions (professional show – get jpgs of accepted works to be included (deadline was in October)
2-Classes at BGSU, Pavilion, CCS
3-Gallery Hop (shoot another Toledo Gallery event with trolleys, etc.)
4-GAS Fashion Show (Laura Donefer) (images from last year’s event?)

1-Collectors Tour: show key collectors’ homes collections
2-Lifetime Achievement Award recipient (Bertil Vallien (Swedish))
3-PARTY – Huntington Center (show hip event in Toledo)

Heather's Jutta Skype Notes:

Jutta Skype:

1) 1^st Shot = Long shot of Toledo Skyline + night shot of bridge (280)

o Widescreen = display collection of images = have archival images already digitized

>She will get that for us + PPP she has

- no images from Littleton/Labino (1^st workshop)

- same from 2^nd + also 1970 glass studio

>- she has diskfrom CBS to borrow w/ footage

> 50^th anniversary of studio glass

- industrial glass supported us = why important (Otto Whitman)

- Kennedy talk @ why important

- Pictro = 1^st artist; Fritz Dreisbach – 1960’s head = great images

>> Jack Schmidt is going to be @ BG!!!

- Otto Whitman asked to cut hair, so he quit.

> She will get 10 best TMA glass works (stills) for us to shoot video

> She will work out w/ Pinkleton, Libbey, etc = try to arrange to get us shots.

- Robert Zolbach = Libbey

- Steven Wiedener = Pinkleton marketing

- People looking @ glass = Blade documented early shows.

Blade = conference sponsor

- First Solar = (add on)

> early documentation = good through 70’s

Gas archives @ Corning Museum of Art

- Jutta find out how to get GAS archives images

- Specific Artists? = Labino, Littleton

Smithsonian Archives = Interviews + Images

> Conference = get images of previous conference

II. b. Jack Schmidt, Mike Wallace, Labino Studio

IV. ii: Collectors: 3 collectors here

iii: Art Tatum piece + Labino

> vitualight glass (60’s opaque glass tile)

b. i: Crosby Festival = Botanical gargen (oldest craft fair)

c. Need contact @ hotel

c: ii = don’t know keynote yes

iv: Quality Demo (needs to schedule and think about)

o Jeff Mach – in residency – to make Guggenheim Veretian piece

v: use prev converence (GAS journal)

vi: Lucro Bobacko is committed (Venice)

vii: Herb Babcock (CSS) > has stills

viii: - Gallery Hop – ACGT

ix: has images

xiii: Party (outside of Huntington Ctr)

> Stella exhibition – lecture in Peristyle in a couple weeks in TMA

Color Field Ptq show Ultizsky

- Studio Glass Focusing on Color Exhibition

- Great lineage of Peristyle = show Stella + beanf

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?’s

- voiceover – hasn’t thought about it

o script written by ?_________?

- Logo! – Origins + Influence (?professional dev?)

o Needs to talk w/ president of board

o Use GAS logo for now

- Include Mayor with Sound bite

- Brian Kennedy > successor to Otto Whitman = lots to talk

Jutta Gone in April (teaching in Libson)

- she will probably write the script

- Jeff Mach (schedule)

- When to go to TMA (not Tuesdays, Monday’s closed (but then easier to shoot))

REMINDER

Team, this is just a reminder that we are in fact meeting with Jutta (Dr. Page) tomorrow. Instead of driving up there she has agreed that a Skype chat would be just as good, so that is what we will do.

Please come up with any questions we need to ask her by the start of class tomorrow. We will Skype her at 11 so it only gives us thirty minutes to go over what needs to be discussed as a team.



Here are some of the questions that I have come up with, with Heather:

- Script --> Who will be in charge of writing the voice over? Would she like to find someone to do the voice over or should we find someone to do it?

- Will she help us arrange an interview/ head talk, with the mayor? contact for the mayor?

- Brian Kennedy's contact information

-Does she have a logo already made, we have a graphic design student that can make one. If she wants us to have Drew make it what would she like the logo to look like?

-Can we have some contact information for the archivist, Libbey factory, Pilkerton factory, Owens Ill,
:historical: photos of Libbey glass factory,
:Pickerton factory
:1st G.A.S factory
:1952 historic event
:Libbey in Chicago before moving to Toledo
:Owens bottle machine company
:Contempory:
:some kind of cog roadshow
:glass fashion show

-Content for the actual conference... photos, videos we can use?

-List of the artwork from her collection to shoot (maybe send us stills of those, to help with a starting point)

Outline

Here is the outline that Heather helped us come up with, please add any comments that would help us with the revision and/or addition to this:



Glass Art Society (GAS) 42nd Annual Conference

Toledo, Ohio, June 13-16, 2012
Promotional Video Outline:


colorful, great music (**KEEP PACE throughout!)
Introduction:
Flashy, catchy, best of the best footage, wide shot of Toledo (bridge)

Keypoints:
-Toledo is great, fun – America’s Glass City
-Importance of conference (what is GAS?)
-Why care about glass
-Logos (conference, GAS, City of Toledo)
-Some kind of “welcome” (mayor?) or TMA director (Brian Kennedy)
-Coolest shots of:
:Toledo
:Glass in action (studio)
:gorgeous TMA collection
:industry shots
:people looking at the glass (interested folks)


Beginning: History of Glass in Toledo
-Libbey and commercial glass history: 1st ever glass bottle producing machine, Flat glass (used in the Ford model A car)
-Pancakes=Flat glass inspiration
-Archival photos of original factories
(Pilkington, Libbey contemporary factory shots)
Owens-Illinois
-How American Studio Glass movement started in Toledo (1962)
-Images of the museum (historical and now)
-Archival photos of 1962 event
-Most important names of Toledo glass artists (Dominick Labino (dead), who else?)
-Chicago World's Fair (Libbey Owens factory was there)

Middle: How glass has evolved
-TMA and new Pavilion
-Studio glass – shots of contemporary Toledo area studios (Fire Nation, etc.)
-Shots of people working in glass (hot/cold shops)
-Utility vs. art glass
-Old bottle producer vs. new one? How many it can make in a second compared to the 4 it could do when it was first invented?


End: The Conference
Why this region is important NOW
-Going Green/ Solar Panels
-BGSU, TMA, CCS, Ball State, OSU, Akron?, Kent programs
-Glass collectors in Toledo
-Public glass art in Toledo (Labino in Library)

How Toledo is cool
-Why it really is called the "Glass City"
-Cultural Events: Zoo, TMA, 5/3 field, Imagination Station, Library
-Outdoors: metroparks, riverwalk
-Pub Scene, fun

Highlights of the Conference (features)
-Conference Hotel: Park Inn (nice shots of the lobby, etc.)
-Lectures
-Keynote: Wilson, Strattman, Labino
-Gala event (shoot another black tie event @ pavilion)
-Demonstrations (shoot Pavilion glass shop happening)
-CMoG Roadshow (get images of the roadshow from past years)
-Trade Show (need list of vendors – cool motion graphics of logos)
-Exhibitions (professional show – get jpgs of accepted works to be included (deadline was in October)
-Classes at BGSU, Pavilion, CCS
-Gallery Hop (shoot another Toledo Gallery event with trolleys, etc.)
-GAS Fashion Show (Laura Donefer) (images from last year’s event?)
-Collectors Tour: show key collectors’ homes collections
-Lifetime Achievement Award recipient (Bertil Vallien (Swedish))
-PARTY – Huntington Center (show hip event in Toledo)

MEETING #2

Hello Team,

Today was our second meeting and we would like to welcome our newest member to the group, graphic design student Drew Sweress!

For Tuesday's class come up with 3-5 general questions to ask all of the people we will be interviewing. Also if there are certain questions we need to ask Jutta let's try to get those figured out by next class as well. Drew suggested that we look at the movie "Food Inc." (which is on NetFlix if anyone has it) for some interesting camera angles and interviewing techniques.

I received an email back from Jutta confirming that she is able to meet Thursday morning. She said that 10:30 or 11 would work for her but if we met her at 10:30 this would mean we would need to leave BG around 10. We can discuss this next class to figure out what would work for everyone.

One last thing to add, we are going to be going to the Toledo library on Tuesday during class time to find some old photos of Toledo and the glass factories to reproduce. I will find directions for us and bring them to class Tues. Chris do you want to drive or would you like me to?

Have a great weekend!
-Michelle

2nd Group Meeting:

Hello team! Tomorrow is our second group meeting.

Today's meeting with Heather was very helpful in figuring out a good time line for this project, as well as how to properly set up the light kit and cameras.

I would have liked to go up to the Toledo library tomorrow to begin gathering photos to recreate possibly next week, but I want to get all of your feedback on the situation... what do you think? Should we go up to the library or should we still meet at the union and figure out tasks to divide up between the team tomorrow and give them out to be more efficient?

Hope to hear back soon!
-Michelle

CHANGE OF PLANS

Hello team!
I heard back from our client today and she is able to meet with us next Tuesday during our class time, so I am thinking we should save some gas and just wait to go to Toledo until then. Tomorrow we can start to brainstorm on what type of questions we want to ask the people we are going to be interviewing (the serious questions as well as the ice breakers)and try to figure out some camera angles that we like. Maybe even watching some MTV interviews and see how they have done them since we have similar audiences?

These are just ideas though if anyone has any good ideas as to what we can do tomorrow feel free to post them on here! We will still be meeting Heather in class so hopefully we can get some of those notes further deciphered and figure out where we should be in this process!

See you soon,
Michelle

Typed out the notes in hope it'd be easier to understand. I'll be trying to further decipher it if need be:

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Notes: Nadine 1/5/11

O Sent Jutta

- 255-8000

o Gas Art Society International Conference.

o Highlight Toledo History Glass - Art + Industrial Libby, Owens-Illium, Pilkington (Rusford) - Or Unden Area

o Jack Schmidt, MaH Paskiet (Fire Nation) - Baker O'Brien (Grand Rapids) took Domino Labino

o Pavillion

o CCS = Also New Studio

o BGSU = New Studio

o Glass Art in City Clibray, pavillion

o Henry Ford - Mark Vander____________

o TMIA = Jeff Mack

o Submissions for Conference - mock up of activating downtown

o Pah Library Archives

o Habitat Gallery (Royal Oak)

o Jutta = Welcome

o Jack Schmidt - Toledo Arts Composium

o Sponsors listed

o Links - G.A.S. Website (Toledo)

- 2008 video

o Glass Fasion Show (past conference, plickn(!?))

16+22 (what?)

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Notes - Jutta 1/10/11

- Days Before = Collector's Tour (whole Region)

- go to collector's homes

- DIA > big studios, CCS, Henry Ford

- Fire Nation

- (Mite) Wallace's in Sylvania

- Interviews: Mayor, Nicholas Cage (Collector) > Elton John

- TMA Director

- Lucio Bubacco will be there (Felix has)

> List of Artists (in TMA

in Public private collection Toledo

doing demos/lectures)

o Lifetime Achievement Award = Bertil Vallien (Swedish)

> Not public knowledge yet.

- # of schools (BGSU, CCS, Kent State, CIA - Brent Key Yong

OSU, Ball State (Munrie) - Akron?

- RIT, Alfred

O Galleries/Art Commisions of GT

TSA - glass?

Have Harmonica to play

O Outreach to Public also

> EPIC? (see if other fashion show)

Fashion Show + 2010 = Biannuel Canadian in Montreal

Haitian - Joseph Heilmer (did) courtierul glass

Cumte hour in Pavillion for that

x Has video of corning show

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- Everything @ glass

[ o Skyline (280 bridge)

downtown

o 5/3 Field

o TMA/Pavillm

o 200

o Metroparks

o Pup Scene

(Seattle Conference = true = ready for that)]

- Libby, Pinkleton, OuI

- Glass Sculpture Downtown

o Toledo

O 50th Aniversary of

1962 = 2 workshops in Toledo (Harvey Littleton) > ceramics @ TMA but @ WICS from Corning does scientist

- Edris Eckhard (Cleveland ceramics artist)

- "ancient splendor" = famous + first work @ Corning, now @ TMA (1st Female)

- American Craftsman Association Meeting > New Careers @ WWII (1959-1960)

Panel @ Feasibility of glass @ craft

- 1st = Approached Corning, but no (1951 founded)

- Otto Whitman (TMA curator)

O They have B+W photos; PR handled by O-I; Blade

Julie MC Master (archivist = has plenty of info

Audience: glass artists = young = need to know why glass is important

- Conference Structure: Lectures, Demos(am); tours > Factories (12 people)

- Reception @ Museum; Park Inn = Conference Hotel

- Peristyle = Important Speakers; Auction = Benefit (@ balloon) Open to Public

- Silent + Live (invited); International Student Exhibition >

in Convention Ctr @ Pork Inn; 70 vendors @ Trade Show

> Corning Road Show = Mobile Unit parked there (every year)

> Glass Lab (2012) = new launch (Corning also) - no footage

- Glass Fashion Show - Laura Donofer (BG/Canadian)

- Huntington Center - Saturday evening > Open to Public

> EPIC (Toledo Yuppies)

Time Sheets

Hi team, Just a reminder that you need to print off your time sheets and bring them tomorrow morning! See you then.

Meeting #1

We got a lot accomplished at our first group meeting today. Below are the notes that Heather took.. we are going to be re-organizing them in class on Tuesday along with getting reference photos and directions to all of the locations we will need to travel to this semester. See you on Tuesday!

REMINDER

Hey Team, just a reminder that we are meeting tomorrow at 11:30 in the Union upstairs by the bookstore entrance! Don't forget to take some notes from those dvd's and bring them with you.

See you there!
Michelle

Research Links

Here are some links to that we found to be interesting and/or inspirational towards the brainstorming of the 2011 G.A.S promo video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WoYMPkDvz0

-This video has a nice variation of clips of people working with glass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHVw7bK2Qzs&NR=1

-The way this video transitions to music when showing someone working with glass is nice.

General Links

Group Name: Team Classy Glass

Michelle Rucker

Nathan Day

Chris Carter

Jarrhette Burke

Meeting Time: Fridays 11:30am - 1:30pm

Class Link

Glass Art Society Homepage

Previous Promo Video