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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.