First Attempts- The Found Project

Here is what I wanted to show everyone in Class.

Okay, now that you've seen it...there is still a lot of work to do.

Here is my list at present:

I plan on going back in and superimposing a picture of the We Want Your Story! poster to each of the still pictures.

I want to add music to the segments before the stills...the first three frames.

I want to have voice over in the stills section.

I want to retake the end footage with out shaking the camera.

I want to add still photos of individual found comments.

I have bloopers...maybe I will post those later.

What I hope to accomplish by Thursday:

Superimposing the We Want Your Story Image.

Taking and adding the new end footage.

I think that sounds fairly reasonable...who knows what I may run into!

Neglect and New Ideas

Okay, I admit it, I have neglected my blog for the sandy beaches of Commerce, TX... actually I took a little time to reflect on my project and I wanted to give everyone the heads-up here. I want to begin my movie with video of me putting up my found boards, and then move in a different direction for the filling-up of the boards. I am going to take a little creative license and using a digital camera to make still shots of each paper placed on the board, filling up one board as a representation and placing all of the images in movie maker and speeding them up...Does that make sense? I am hoping to have these images by Thursday. I have a few ideas for the beginning and the ending but I will keep those veiled for now.

Video Sentence

Maybe more of an exercise in random thought...

My Project

I basically just copied and pasted the e-mail request for my project...look for it on a hall near you!

Hi, Sal--


Below, please find a request from JP Sloop for permission to use a small portion of the bulletin board on each floor of the Hall of Languages for the duration of the semester as communication point for a documentary project.

Using Found Magazine (www.foundmagazine.com) and the National Conversation on Writing (www.ncow.org) as inspiration, JP would like to set up a “found” space for found writing to be displayed/shared in the Hall of Languages. A writing assignment will emerge from this, as well as a video project documenting the experiment and the resulting artifacts/conversations. The video will be shared with the National Conversation on Writing, to be found in the NCoW archives and, we hope, featured in future NCoW campaigns.

Here’s JP’s request. Thanks, Sal!

---Shannon


Drs. Attardo and Carter,

I recently watched a video interview from the National Conversation on Writing (NCOW) website, in which the author made the claim that we are all writers. I agree, and from this premise I would like to suggest the following project. I think one of the inhibitors for people seeing themselves as writers is the lack of a space to present their writing. For my project, I would like to use a portion of the bulletin boards on each floor in the Hall of Languages, providing a space for writers to display their work. I will be keeping a type of video journal of the progress of the bulletin boards. I hope to turn the footage into a short video looking at who and what is being written about when a space is provided.

Yours,
JP Sloop