For anyone working on a vBlog, I am available to go through a brief 15-minute crash course on using the robotics at the Jukowsky forum. I am free between 2:40-3, and anytime before 1:40 PM on Wednesdays. If you are interested, please email me at phillip_gara@brown.edu to find a time that works.
Thank you all for responding to the initial blog entry and I think that the groupings are working out pretty even. Here's what I compiled according to your preferences:
Group 1.) Tues Feb 12th 6:30 PM List 510
Sarah Kay
William Leader
Meaghan Casey
Joe Braidwood
Kristian Walther
Alejandra Piers-Torres
Group 2.) Tues Feb 12th 8PM List 510
Michael Depuis Jr.
Alan Johnson
Megan
Amy Tan
Marie-Claude Hamel
Group 3.) Thurs Feb 14th 6PM List 510
Ben Mishkin
Veronica Cortez
William van Lancker
Kathleen Fleming
Group 4.) Thurs Feb. 14th 7:30 List 510
Michael Schub
Megan
*anyone who wants a second FCP run through, especially after the tech problems during the 1st group meeting.
If you haven't signed up all the spaces seem to be fairly open, so the choice is yours!
Finally, I'm still looking for a volunteer to lead the tutorial sessions with Scott and I. I watched the tapes over the weekend and the footage is a pop-culture "aesthetic carnival" of surveillance and simultaneity that would make for a great first vBlog. This project would count as vBlog credit, and you would get a cutting edge crash course in FCP editing!
Hello Global Mediaers,
It's Phil [general technical research assistant phillip_gara@brown.edu] and more virtually, Scott (research assistant in editing and ePublishing www.staticrooster.com)
So, here's the low-down on the Final Cut Pro tutorials:
The meeting times are Tuesday the 12th from 6:30PM to 8PM and 8PM to 9:30PM, and Thursday the 14th from 6PM to 7:30PM and 7:30PM to 9PM--all sessions (listed below) are at List 510] *subject to changes and popular demand posted on the blog, voiced in class or over email phillip_gara@brown.edu:
group 1.) Tuesday 12th, 6:30PM to 8PM
group 2.) Tuesday 12th, 8PM to 9:30PM
group 3.) Thurs. 14th, 6PM to 7:30PM
group 4.) Thurs. 14th, 7:30PM to 9PM
The groups will meet for an hour and a half, and I am hoping that we can organize relatively even group sizes by listing your preferences on the blog. Please respond to this post by adding your name and the number of the time that best fits your schedule (if you have no preference, please go to a relatively empty meeting period):
PLEASE READ: To teach the final cut pro tutorials, Scott and I going to be using the tapes of Thomas Levin's lecture on simultaneity and surveillance from last spring. We are looking for a student or a small group of students interested in working on an early (and awesome!) vblog that can hang around for all the sessions and act out the tutorials as we teach final cut. The idea is to make the labs real time and interactive, so on the 12th and 14th Scott and I would direct the final cut pro labs towards producing your vblog. We would not only cover the basic techniques of final cut pro, but we would also use audience feedback to begin building a narrative for your vblog. If all goes well, the process would be an introduction to interactive self-publishing: in being the magicians' apprentices during the labs (Scott and I for editing techniques and the working groups for stylistic suggestions), you would become a great magician.
I hope that the sessions will kick off a semester of great productions and I think that they will be useful even for students who already know Final Cut, because we will be discussing both documentary production techniques and all of those new FCP features that you may not know about. Finally, we'll be distributing two differernt quick start guides/cheat sheets on documentary production and editing to coerce you all into coming to the sessions.