Plans for the Weekend

So everyone but me in the group seems to be gone one day or the other because of sickness or other things... :( oh well. I have been relating information back and forth between my other group members about the plan for the weekend.

Plan #1- Re-interview Tito.
The last video we shot of Tito ended up being to quiet, so we are going to have to re-shoot. Probably a good plan anyways so we can tighten it up, he had a few too many "umm"s last time for my liking. That is planned for Saturday.

Plan #2- Tattoo Parlor
Many calls have been placed to the local tattoo parlors, but so far no one has called back. A continued effort will be made to get in contact with an artist to hopefully set up an interview, but if all else fails it looks like this Saturday we will be driving out to them to talk in person.

Plan #3- Editing and Other Work
Meeting in the library on Sunday to work out the kinks of what we have so far. Each member will be bringing their own idea of what our story board should look like, and we are going to flesh out a final one out of those. Next we will be messing around with the footage we have on the computer, so we know how to use the programs before it comes to the end and we have no idea what we are doing. Other things to be decided then.

So that's our weekend. Wish us luck :)

A Late Introduction

I appologize for taking so long to finally start up this blog, but here I go anyways.

For those of you who do not already know, I am taking my University Seminar 103 class at Southern Oregon University. University Seminar, or USem for short, is like beginning college english that is mandatory for all freshmen. For this term my class is doing Oral History reports in a video form. My group in particualr is doing our report on the history of tattoos with a focus on people's own personal stories about them.

Now that you are up to date, here is what is going on now. It is week four and my group has been both working individually and together to gather information, pictures, and video. Over the weeks i have interviewed a few of my friends by myself and got thier personal tattoo stories. Like my family friend, Jenifer, who has a flower on her hand. She got that tattoo at age 16, and it was originally just the intitials "J n J", after her friends who had died in a car accedent. Later in her life she had it changed into a flower and still says that the loops that go off to the sides are "J"s. On Friday we all got together to interview Tito about his Samoan tattoos and the history of tattoos among the Samoan people.

Well that is all for now, I will try and keep up on this blog weekly. Wish me luck.

~Chelsea