FINISHED!!

DONE DONE DONE!!! WE ARE DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my GOD! After three FULL days in the lab, my group and I have finally produced a finished video!!!

Sleep now please...

~Chelsea

Weekend of Death!!!

Okay so today was the second day in a row that my group and I spent the ENTIRE day in the main computer lab working on editing our video.

Friday I got to the lab at around 12:00pm and didn't leave till around 7:00pm! Today was pretty much the same except that I slept in a little late and got to the lab at 1:00pm and HAD to leave at 7:00pm because that was when the lab closed.

We had to REDO so much today because of the way the Macs in the lab save, it saved as a finalized video, so we couldn't work with it, so we pretty much started all over. Then we figured it would do that to us again if we tried to do it all as one video, so we came up with the idea of splitting it up by section and finalizing them separately. I took Japanese today, and FINISHED IT, it will not need to be worked on any more, and that is such a nice feeling. It will be so great when we can say that for this whole project.

Well, another long day in the tomorrow. Time for bed.

~Chelsea

Storyboard and more...

Okay so our group storyboard is done! It features amazing art work by yours truly, ha ha not. But it is passable. We spent a few hours the last weekend getting it all done to show Professor Marinak this week. Here is a picture of it:

This weekend the members of my group are gathering our own personal research, photos and videos to bring to our meeting on Sunday. On Sunday we will be fleshing out our video, getting it ready to be edited, and even beginning the editing process.

Personal research paper... so far I have a lot of my research, but could do more, and my outline done. I need to start working on my rough draft soon :(

Well that's it for now. Way too much homework both for this class and my others, but there is nothing I can do about it :(

Now to go have a homework filled, fun-less weekend. Yay...

~Chelsea

Videos from far away...

Okay so my good friend Kayla's boyfriend (Andrew) is considering getting a traditional Japanese tattoo since he went to Japan and absolutely fell in love with it. Andrew however goes to Oregon State University in Corvallis. And since I live here in Ashland and how no plans of visiting Corvallis I thought I might be out of luck when it came to interviewing him. But by some chance of fate Kayla was going up to Corvallis to visit her boyfriend Andrew on Valentines day and gave me the prime opportunity to send her with my camera to interview him. :)

Here is the video- she did pretty good considering my instructions were vague.
* The video has been modified to better fit in this blog- sorry about the poor quality.

A few weeks in...

So its a few weeks into this project and although I feel like my group has been doing almost everything we can to get together and work on the project, with our conflicting schedules and personal lives it's beginning to look like it's going to be a struggle to finish this project by the time it is due.

Finding people to video of things we need is proving a challenge, with me not being able to find an old man with a war tattoo, and Whitney having the tattoo artist keep canceling on her. This project is truly more than we expected.

The editing process I am sure will take forever! We are going to have to give up a whole weekend to just sit down for hours and crank this video out.

And to top it all off we have our personal research projects! Like this video wasn't already enough! I just don't have the time, and so I know that something is going to have to suffer in it's quality in order for everything to get done. It's all just a matter of what that ends up being, wither it's the video, the presentation, the personal research paper, homework from my other classes, or even my sleep. I'm going to have to give up the quality of something just to finish it all.

~Chelsea

Still Trucking...

Okay so this has been kind of a slow and painful process, it seems that my group and I try to get together a lot so we can make some progress but I feel like we are not getting anywhere fast. I have high hopes for our plans of working on our own on assigned time periods and seeing how far we can get alone before coming together for another group meeting and going, "uh so what do we do now?"

I am also struggling to gather some interesting footage for the old Sailor/Navy tattoo bit I want to include in our video. It would be so ideal to find some old World War II veteran who severed in the Navy and has like a anchor tattoo on his arm. Like this guy (Left)! I wish I knew someone like that and could interview them! :( If anyone does know someone who fits this description (or something close to it) drop me off a comment down below! :)

So we are still putting along, and the deadline is just getting closer and closer. Starting to feel the pressure? I am.

~Chelsea