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...
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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-