Nov 20, 2010
SENIOR CAPSULE BLOG THING 11/20/10
So yeah. I was late again this morning. Last night's Chinese got to my stomach overnight, I awoke with a volcano exploding in my stomach. I spent 20 minutes at the harbor launching submarines into the ocean (if you understand my analogy).
During the Senior Time Capsule work-afternoon, I worked on finishing my Proposal, filling in answers to questions and showing what my topic was and how I was going to depict the detail using Flash. Also, during this work time, I saved images on my laptop of the CME cycle.
During this time, I also researched on my topic a little bit. It's a cycle in replication of cells in a plant. Mainly during Cytokinesis, plants replicate cells that helps in the development of plant growth.
I started working on my outline/storyboard for my flash project. Ann decided that it would be better to create symbols within flash representing the different objects in CME instead of vectorize a couple of still images and then importing them to Flash's library. I agree with her partially, on the fact that it is more time consuming to create my own symbols, and with my schedule, I might not be able to do a majority of objects.
So yeah, this is my blog....and I have to go let the rockets fly.
During the Senior Time Capsule work-afternoon, I worked on finishing my Proposal, filling in answers to questions and showing what my topic was and how I was going to depict the detail using Flash. Also, during this work time, I saved images on my laptop of the CME cycle.
During this time, I also researched on my topic a little bit. It's a cycle in replication of cells in a plant. Mainly during Cytokinesis, plants replicate cells that helps in the development of plant growth.
I started working on my outline/storyboard for my flash project. Ann decided that it would be better to create symbols within flash representing the different objects in CME instead of vectorize a couple of still images and then importing them to Flash's library. I agree with her partially, on the fact that it is more time consuming to create my own symbols, and with my schedule, I might not be able to do a majority of objects.
So yeah, this is my blog....and I have to go let the rockets fly.
Oct 23, 2010
ITA, college admissions due!!!!!
So today the admissions is due; final drafts, final editing and peer editing.
The classroom of Audacity; it is magical, powerful tool, but it DOES NOT OPEN PREVIOUSLY SAVED FILES! That's why I don't have a certain 'project' created, it told me the audio files basically suck and that it would not open.
Its okay, but preferably ACID is better.
The classroom of Audacity; it is magical, powerful tool, but it DOES NOT OPEN PREVIOUSLY SAVED FILES! That's why I don't have a certain 'project' created, it told me the audio files basically suck and that it would not open.
Its okay, but preferably ACID is better.
Oct 9, 2010
ITA....finishing up those picture things
Today in the ITA labs we finished our picture-collage thing we started a few weeks back. I touched up on my ape-thing and added some purple body armor to him. He is a beast.
Sep 11, 2010
ITA: We the seniors, Day 1
Today we came and were directed to a room filled with the creepiest printed pictures on the tables, colored only in black and white.
So the process of using real and digital art to enhance images is pretty simple. You basically take an image and refine it over courses of using art tools such as pencils, markers, scissors etc... and then using the computer to edit it or mash the refining back together.
I used several images today, one of them being "the chief". I kind of made a little story about him after I mashed him up with the dalmatian and some random city bench I Googled. The story was "A day with the chief" and his background was that he was blind and he had a watch dog, waiting eagerly for the bus to arrive as he sat on the bench.
Jun 28, 2010
Internship Day Ten and Eleven
6/25/10
Time: 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
I sat here thinking on ideas for project J.E.R.E.M.Y and what I could add into it.
6/28/10
Time 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
I set up the camera and tripod for project J.E.R.E.M.Y and filmed one person today. Then Chris asked me to make a poster to show the times and locations of the interviews. I also looked into the Wisc Cal Scheduling Assistant, and apparently I need some sort of "higher-up" to invite me in order to start using the scheduler.
Time: 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
I sat here thinking on ideas for project J.E.R.E.M.Y and what I could add into it.
6/28/10
Time 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
I set up the camera and tripod for project J.E.R.E.M.Y and filmed one person today. Then Chris asked me to make a poster to show the times and locations of the interviews. I also looked into the Wisc Cal Scheduling Assistant, and apparently I need some sort of "higher-up" to invite me in order to start using the scheduler.
Jun 24, 2010
Internship Day Nine
6/24/10
Time: 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
I came in and sat. And that was it. Looked on Oracle Calender and there was nothing to meet about or talk about with anyone on any projects. Although I'll be starting the project J.E.R.E.M.Y interviews tomorrow at the PTE rooms. Today was just a slow, casual day. Jeff did come to see my laptop, the outcome was that I still need to upgrade the mac's OS to 10.6 from my 10.5.8 update, so we'll work something out later.
Time: 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
I came in and sat. And that was it. Looked on Oracle Calender and there was nothing to meet about or talk about with anyone on any projects. Although I'll be starting the project J.E.R.E.M.Y interviews tomorrow at the PTE rooms. Today was just a slow, casual day. Jeff did come to see my laptop, the outcome was that I still need to upgrade the mac's OS to 10.6 from my 10.5.8 update, so we'll work something out later.
Jun 23, 2010
Internship Day Eight
6/23/10
Time: 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
Today I came in and started working on the poser project that Luiz was working on. Being creative is pretty hard when you have everything that you need.
I met up with AJ, Lejia, Filipe, and Tenzin for the afternoon to work on getting Vegas video for the laptop. Unfortunately I will need Jeff Houston to modify the laptop I'm using in order for me to use the Novell client and have access to parallels, this meeting with Jeff is scheduled on Friday. Although we had the transfer process for Vegas from the ITA office's external hard drive moving the software to my computer, there was a transfer error. So whave collaborated and decided to just wait until I get the laptop modified for myself. Filipe suggested I learned another video editing software, I forgot what its called but I'm pretty sure I'll remember soon. (haha).
I returned to the office and continued the poster project but Luiz has finished it and I suggested that there was a lot of white space left, but he then said "That's all the pictures there was," not much we can do about it though. He sent it to get it approved to send it out to those who need to be thanked.
Time: 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
Today I came in and started working on the poser project that Luiz was working on. Being creative is pretty hard when you have everything that you need.
I met up with AJ, Lejia, Filipe, and Tenzin for the afternoon to work on getting Vegas video for the laptop. Unfortunately I will need Jeff Houston to modify the laptop I'm using in order for me to use the Novell client and have access to parallels, this meeting with Jeff is scheduled on Friday. Although we had the transfer process for Vegas from the ITA office's external hard drive moving the software to my computer, there was a transfer error. So whave collaborated and decided to just wait until I get the laptop modified for myself. Filipe suggested I learned another video editing software, I forgot what its called but I'm pretty sure I'll remember soon. (haha).
I returned to the office and continued the poster project but Luiz has finished it and I suggested that there was a lot of white space left, but he then said "That's all the pictures there was," not much we can do about it though. He sent it to get it approved to send it out to those who need to be thanked.
Jun 22, 2010
Internship Day Seven
6/22/10
Time: 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
Today was the final filming day for the T&L Symposium video. Vanessa came in and gave Chris a script to read off of which included the introduction of the video and the conclusion of the video. At first we tried making Chris do a walk-in shot which had her walk towards the camera while saying the first couple of sentences of the script, but this idea wasn't too good due to lighting, angle, and uncomfortable shooting environment issues. We eventually made our way to the corner where we shot the interview, although Chris had many attempts at the introduction, it was a very good one, she did great.
Vanessa and I returned the camera, tripod, and external microphone back to the DMC. We had troubles capturing the video from the camera to Vanessa's laptop but we asked for help from the DMC crew.
I came back into the cubicle and decided to help with ideas on Luiz's project: the T&L posters which had to include the logos of sponsors and the group photo they took.
Reflection:
Time is flying by fast. Summer is going by really fast. Life is going by even faster.
Time: 12:00pm- 5:00pm (5 hours)
Details:
Today was the final filming day for the T&L Symposium video. Vanessa came in and gave Chris a script to read off of which included the introduction of the video and the conclusion of the video. At first we tried making Chris do a walk-in shot which had her walk towards the camera while saying the first couple of sentences of the script, but this idea wasn't too good due to lighting, angle, and uncomfortable shooting environment issues. We eventually made our way to the corner where we shot the interview, although Chris had many attempts at the introduction, it was a very good one, she did great.
Vanessa and I returned the camera, tripod, and external microphone back to the DMC. We had troubles capturing the video from the camera to Vanessa's laptop but we asked for help from the DMC crew.
I came back into the cubicle and decided to help with ideas on Luiz's project: the T&L posters which had to include the logos of sponsors and the group photo they took.
Reflection:
Time is flying by fast. Summer is going by really fast. Life is going by even faster.
Jun 21, 2010
Intership Day Six
6/21/10
Time: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm (5 hours)
Details:
I walked in and was called to participate in a meeting with Luiz, Cydney, Christine, and Vanessa. The meeting was on what different projects were going on and who was going to take the lead on each one. We decided to give a "code name" to Kathy's retirement video: Project J.E.R.E.M.Y, this name should ease up with the suspicion that Kathleen Christoph might have. Shortly after this first meeting, Chris invited me to the window b her desk and we met with Kathy McMicheal to talk about where I should do the interviews. We decided that we were going to use Kathy Christoph's office as well as her room in the PTE building for the interviews. We still have to figure out how to get word out to the people we are going to invite for the interviews, but as I heard the only way is to properly email and invite or something.
After this meeting, two hours have passed, and another meeting was with the communications board to talk about goals for June, July, and August on certain projects and stuff, I'm not too sure if it had to do with anything I was going to help capture video for except for the Mythbusters video.
Reflections:
I can see now why in the beginning everyone was rushed about these video projects, time is flying fast pretty quickly, it's already the third week into June even though it feels the ear barely turned 2010. This job is an interesting job that I hope I could find in my future. It's relaxing, enjoyable, great working environment, great people to talk with, and a great working pace.
Time: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm (5 hours)
Details:
I walked in and was called to participate in a meeting with Luiz, Cydney, Christine, and Vanessa. The meeting was on what different projects were going on and who was going to take the lead on each one. We decided to give a "code name" to Kathy's retirement video: Project J.E.R.E.M.Y, this name should ease up with the suspicion that Kathleen Christoph might have. Shortly after this first meeting, Chris invited me to the window b her desk and we met with Kathy McMicheal to talk about where I should do the interviews. We decided that we were going to use Kathy Christoph's office as well as her room in the PTE building for the interviews. We still have to figure out how to get word out to the people we are going to invite for the interviews, but as I heard the only way is to properly email and invite or something.
After this meeting, two hours have passed, and another meeting was with the communications board to talk about goals for June, July, and August on certain projects and stuff, I'm not too sure if it had to do with anything I was going to help capture video for except for the Mythbusters video.
Reflections:
I can see now why in the beginning everyone was rushed about these video projects, time is flying fast pretty quickly, it's already the third week into June even though it feels the ear barely turned 2010. This job is an interesting job that I hope I could find in my future. It's relaxing, enjoyable, great working environment, great people to talk with, and a great working pace.
Jun 18, 2010
Internship Day Five
6/18/10
Time: 10 am-3pm
Details: Today I came in ready for the last interviews I had set up a couple days ago. I finished interviewing David Gagnon and successfully captured all three interviews into one single file on iMovie. Unfortunatly, Vanessa was not here all day so I could not collaborate with her on the video we would be editing and producing for the T&L Symposium video. I have shown Christine all the footage I have gotten so far and she has seen some good stuff that I taped. A meeting next week will cover in editing the footage and placing them within the already made video that Vanessa has. We will also talk about new, creative ideas in the production of this video, as well as maybe putting some clips in the awards videos.
Reflection:
I'm getting used to interviewing people. I barely stutter anymore because of my comfort. This is a really great intern and would recommend it to newer ITA students.
Time: 10 am-3pm
Details: Today I came in ready for the last interviews I had set up a couple days ago. I finished interviewing David Gagnon and successfully captured all three interviews into one single file on iMovie. Unfortunatly, Vanessa was not here all day so I could not collaborate with her on the video we would be editing and producing for the T&L Symposium video. I have shown Christine all the footage I have gotten so far and she has seen some good stuff that I taped. A meeting next week will cover in editing the footage and placing them within the already made video that Vanessa has. We will also talk about new, creative ideas in the production of this video, as well as maybe putting some clips in the awards videos.
Reflection:
I'm getting used to interviewing people. I barely stutter anymore because of my comfort. This is a really great intern and would recommend it to newer ITA students.
Jun 17, 2010
Internship Day Four
6/17/10
Time: 1:30 pm- 5:00pm (3.5 hours)
Details:
Today I had scheduled an interview with Ron Cramer around 2:30pm and it lasted for about 20 minutes. I have captured the video content and saved it to the laptop. I am hoping to edit both TImmo's and Ron's interviews by chopping bits and pieces up and placing them into a video Vanessa had started on prior to my internship. I have also scheduled the rest of my interviews for Friday and have received an invite from Luiz on helping him with ideas for the thank you posters to all those that were a part of Academic's thing during the summer. I was given a couple of sample pictures from Luiz to start thinking about creative ideas for the posters because they are looking for variety and I was pretty sure I could do that.
Reflection:
Not too hard, not too easy, just neutral. This internship has a lot in store for me, not just meetings, but getting to know how this department of DoiT impacts the UW campus. I enjoy my workspace and the respect that the staff and my supervisors give to me.
Time: 1:30 pm- 5:00pm (3.5 hours)
Details:
Today I had scheduled an interview with Ron Cramer around 2:30pm and it lasted for about 20 minutes. I have captured the video content and saved it to the laptop. I am hoping to edit both TImmo's and Ron's interviews by chopping bits and pieces up and placing them into a video Vanessa had started on prior to my internship. I have also scheduled the rest of my interviews for Friday and have received an invite from Luiz on helping him with ideas for the thank you posters to all those that were a part of Academic's thing during the summer. I was given a couple of sample pictures from Luiz to start thinking about creative ideas for the posters because they are looking for variety and I was pretty sure I could do that.
Reflection:
Not too hard, not too easy, just neutral. This internship has a lot in store for me, not just meetings, but getting to know how this department of DoiT impacts the UW campus. I enjoy my workspace and the respect that the staff and my supervisors give to me.
Jun 16, 2010
Internship Day Three
Wednesday 6/16/10
Time: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm (5 hours)
Details:
Christine and I managed to meet for an hour or so as I came in. My Wisc Calender is up and running and I have scheduled all the interviews I need before next week Tuesday the 22nd. I also have gone over the video I shot on Tuesday, which looks okay except I have no software on this laptop to capture the video. Hopefully, tomorrow I will have another great day at this intern, I'm hoping I can capture the videos and start editing them right away before Tuesday's deadline.
Need to meet the deadline!
Time: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm (5 hours)
Details:
Christine and I managed to meet for an hour or so as I came in. My Wisc Calender is up and running and I have scheduled all the interviews I need before next week Tuesday the 22nd. I also have gone over the video I shot on Tuesday, which looks okay except I have no software on this laptop to capture the video. Hopefully, tomorrow I will have another great day at this intern, I'm hoping I can capture the videos and start editing them right away before Tuesday's deadline.
Need to meet the deadline!
Internship Hour Logs
I will be keeping track on Wisc Calender as well as on this blog. Most likely I will be posting daily blogs about my hours spent and how productive each day went. The past two days, Monday and Tuesday, will be included in this blog.
Monday: 11:30 am-1:00 pm (1.5 hours)
Details: I received a tour from Cidney and got familiar with the working facility. I attended a small meeting which included Christine, Luiz, Vanessa, Elizabeth, and Chris. The meting covered what different projects were undergoing production such as the T^4, AT accomplishments, and a secret video. The meeting took most of the time, but we arranged that Luiz was my main supervisor.
Tuesday: 12:00 pm-5:00 pm (5 hours)
Details: I walked in and met up with Vanessa. We went down to the DMC to pick up the equipment that we need for the interviews. The equipment included the tripod, camera, and external microphone. Vanessa then gave me a sheet of paper which included a variety of questions that dealt with the T&L Symposium video. The list contains staff members that need to be interviewed. We ended up interviewing Mr. Dugdale, which turned out great because his answers were fairly good, according to Vanessa. I then returned to Christine's desk and I asked about the history of Engage and T^4. Both Christine and Vanessa left the workplace and I was alone to research T^4 and Engage through their well made website. I sat and read about Academic Technology and their role in DoiT, as well as read about the staff that worked here. I then left at 5:00pm.
Reflection:
It's a very nice place, extremely nice people, great atmosphere and a nice professional building. I feel that the working world will not be as hard as I thought it would be thanks to the many different people I've met so far here, and the experience I will have once I have completed this internship. I am very glad that I was chosen from the several students in ITA, to participate in something great and fun.
Summer Internship Tasks & My Goals - Chris
Summer tasks for Jeremy Herr germs9592@gmail.com
Set schedule on WisCal calendar for 180 hours of work between June 14 and August 12 (22.5) -- DONE 6/16/10
Get computer set up -- need Vegas
Tour DMC
Make AT Accomplishments Video w/Luiz
Make Mythbusters videos w/Vanessa
Make KC surprise retirement video w/Vanessa, Kathy M
T&L Symposium interviews & editing
T^4 History w/Chris
Bascom study hall redesign w/Carole, Vanessa
set goals:
SupportJeremy in:
------- exploring his personal goals about ...
------- helping him become a professional in terms of knowing how to discover and meet work expectations, and how to communicate professionally with his cover letter and resume
------- increasing his familiarity with life and work on a university campus
------- giving him a good, personalized work experience
Add-on (More Goals):
- Discover newer ways to do things using the technology given to me that would benefit both my learning and Academic Technology's progress in their projects.
- Contribute my ideas through the projects given to me.
- Learn better techniques from the staff that work here professionally.
- Be able to utilize the equipment and combine it with my own experience and knowledge to add uniqueness to the projects given to me.
- Discover my own interests in modern technology from filming, editing, story boarding, and contributing ideas that would benefit positively to everyone.
-
Set schedule on WisCal calendar for 180 hours of work between June 14 and August 12 (22.5) -- DONE 6/16/10
Get computer set up -- need Vegas
Tour DMC
Make AT Accomplishments Video w/Luiz
Make Mythbusters videos w/Vanessa
Make KC surprise retirement video w/Vanessa, Kathy M
T&L Symposium interviews & editing
T^4 History w/Chris
Bascom study hall redesign w/Carole, Vanessa
set goals:
SupportJeremy in:
------- exploring his personal goals about ...
------- helping him become a professional in terms of knowing how to discover and meet work expectations, and how to communicate professionally with his cover letter and resume
------- increasing his familiarity with life and work on a university campus
------- giving him a good, personalized work experience
Add-on (More Goals):
- Discover newer ways to do things using the technology given to me that would benefit both my learning and Academic Technology's progress in their projects.
- Contribute my ideas through the projects given to me.
- Learn better techniques from the staff that work here professionally.
- Be able to utilize the equipment and combine it with my own experience and knowledge to add uniqueness to the projects given to me.
- Discover my own interests in modern technology from filming, editing, story boarding, and contributing ideas that would benefit positively to everyone.
-
Apr 24, 2010
ITA...4/24/2010
Today we worked on some stuff like finishing our behind the wheel projects and our roadshow projects. I finished my roadshow project...its a simple power point.
I decided to just leave the flash project I was working on, the one I was going to do for the roadshow, exclusively to my behind the wheel project because its taking too long for the roadshow.
I've attached a picture of the flash project which consisted of a couple of loading screens and a lot of action scripting.
Mar 20, 2010
ITA..Day six?
Woke up, showered, drove here in the snow. A stupid train followed us from East Wash all the way downtown. Stupid train D:<
So today we learned a bit of Action scripting. I've already spent a considerable time trying to learn it on my own. I know the basics:
on (release); {
gotoAndPlay("Layer1,1");
}
Stuff like this...yeah....
We had absolutley no time to work on our BTW OR roadshow project today so yeah..
So today we learned a bit of Action scripting. I've already spent a considerable time trying to learn it on my own. I know the basics:
on (release); {
gotoAndPlay("Layer1,1");
}
Stuff like this...yeah....
We had absolutley no time to work on our BTW OR roadshow project today so yeah..
Feb 20, 2010
ITA Flash...day 3?
Today I woke up with a stomach ache...hooray? Another early Saturday, another wait for the bathroom. Mom's in the bathroom for, like 15 minutes with no sound to be heard coming from within. I think to myself, "WT-FUDGE!"
It was snowing, so we departed earlier than normal, maybe like one minute earlier. Dad stops at McDonalds and wastes five minutes behind some old guy in the order-line.
At ITA we went over what we learned last session. Yes...Like every session we always review. The topics we reviewed were motion tweens, object animation, and we also had a small lecture from AJ. It consisted of the basics of motion tweening and OBJECTS. There are two types of Objects, Shapes and Symbols where Shapes are objects that cannot be selected as a whole as easily as the Symbols. Symbols are objects that are imported straight into the library, allowing the users of Flash to use it, abuse it, and motion tween it, like we did today.
My Flash froze just as I was about to save the Flash file into my folder, inside the network drive. So yeah....no files....But a screenshot! But unfortunatly I cannot upload becuase the screenshot is being lame.
It was snowing, so we departed earlier than normal, maybe like one minute earlier. Dad stops at McDonalds and wastes five minutes behind some old guy in the order-line.
At ITA we went over what we learned last session. Yes...Like every session we always review. The topics we reviewed were motion tweens, object animation, and we also had a small lecture from AJ. It consisted of the basics of motion tweening and OBJECTS. There are two types of Objects, Shapes and Symbols where Shapes are objects that cannot be selected as a whole as easily as the Symbols. Symbols are objects that are imported straight into the library, allowing the users of Flash to use it, abuse it, and motion tween it, like we did today.
My Flash froze just as I was about to save the Flash file into my folder, inside the network drive. So yeah....no files....But a screenshot! But unfortunatly I cannot upload becuase the screenshot is being lame.
Feb 6, 2010
Flash Animation Day Two
Another Saturday, another workday at ITA. Woke up to the sound of silence with the bathroom door closed, and locked with the lights on. Thinking once again..."Mom's doing make-up and wasting time in the bathroom again!"
So...Today at ITA we started off with a quiz (like always) that tested our memory of the stuff we learned last time. I forgot what the term 'nesting' was so I just guessed on that. Bryce, sitting next to me, was not here last session so he basically copied me. (haha). Afterward, we began to review motion tween, libraries, symbols and all that other stuff. We were given the entire class time to create a short close-to-five-second animation of a fish in some sort of watery environment. I created a pink whale which was supposed to suck/eat up some green fish-thing, but it was a fail. Apparantly, Adobe Flash CS3 thought half circles were rectangles, and hand-drawn "w's" were squares.
Attatched is a screenshot of my work in Adobe Flash. Wow....All this time and I only got this. Damn.
Jan 23, 2010
Flash, Day One
Today we started by sitting down and listening to stuff: Flash introduction. We started off by watching a power point introduction on Adobe Flash 9.0 and learning the interface of its core.
Most of the tools are laid out in the same manner like those of the other Adobe Suites. Many of the tools used in Flash are almost exactly the same as Illustrator and Photoshop.
Today we were asked to take on three challenges using the Flash editor. By placing key frames and frames and using the 'tweener' tool, we manipulated the drawings, enabling movement between frames.
I uploaded a .swf that shows the basic changes in sound and pictures.
Along with this video, I partly decided on what I'm going to do for the BTW. It's going to incorporate a lot of motion because I feel that the more motion it contains, the more entertaining this, a better grade.
Most of the tools are laid out in the same manner like those of the other Adobe Suites. Many of the tools used in Flash are almost exactly the same as Illustrator and Photoshop.
Today we were asked to take on three challenges using the Flash editor. By placing key frames and frames and using the 'tweener' tool, we manipulated the drawings, enabling movement between frames.
I uploaded a .swf that shows the basic changes in sound and pictures.
Along with this video, I partly decided on what I'm going to do for the BTW. It's going to incorporate a lot of motion because I feel that the more motion it contains, the more entertaining this, a better grade.
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