ngarcia-07-08

If you rearrange wiki you get KIWI!

Email: nicelygarcia@mail.utexas.edu

2 May 2008

Continued working on banner. So far it looks like this:

1 May 2008

Began working on a banner for the Center for Women and Gender Studies page.

25 April 2008

Lab hours! Watched Julio work in Illustrator. Trying to learn the ways of the unknown. 🙂
Portuguese Shoot cancelled.

24 April 2008

Scanned images for Suloni for the Middle Eastern banners
Cleaned my area
Continued working in DVD Studio Pro

22 April 2008

Meeting
Learned how to use DVD Studio Pro (to make cooler looking, more “professional” looking DVDs for professors)

Presentation 2008

4 April 2008

FINISHED subtitling the Yoruba video. Huzzah! We’re completely done with subtitling all the videos.
Began the prep work for exporting the video and burning it to a DVD
Continued working on the Berlin trailer
Finished it. Exported it.
Exported the Portuguese trailer

3 April 2008

Continued subtitling Yoruba video
Began editing together a trailer for the Berlin videos
Continued editing the Portuguese trailer

1 April 2008

Created presentation page
Started editing together a “trailer” of the Portuguese videos

31 March 2008

reorganized wiki with presentation stuff
Kelm stuff

Yoruba stuff

Berlin!

28 March 2008

Continued subtitling the Yoruba video
Should finish by this Thursday, if not, Friday.
Randomly started creating a “Berlin” trailer of all the video clips and whatnot.

27 March 2008

Continued subtitling the Yoruba video

26 March 2008

Helped Daniel with Kelm’s shoot for his classes
Compressed the last video clip for the Berlin project and put it in Christine’s folder

25 March 2008

Continued typing up subtitles

20 March 2008

Continued subtitling the last interview
Digitized the LAST video clip for the Berlin project

18 March 2008

Continued typing subtitles for the last interview.
Met with Frau Hake

15 March 2008

Went through and formatted all the text for the second interview
Exported the videos in English, as well as the second interview

Burned all the interviews to DVDs.

7 March 2008

Finished subtitling the second interview. Done and done. Will begin working on the final interview after Spring Break.
Started exporting the interviews that are in English. To burn these onto separate DVDs as well.

4 March 2008

Finished typing up subtitles for the second interview. Shall begin on the last interview!

3 March 2008

Continued adding subtitles to the second interview (with Stephanie’s help, I’m almost done!)

1 March 2008

Burned the first interview onto a DVD.

29 February 2008

Began subtitling the second interview.
Stroke of genius to use an A/V splitter so that I could have head phones to listen to what I was doing. (Should have thought of that earlier).

Genius thought resulted in finishing 6 1/2 minutes of footage.

28 February 2008

Met with Bunmi to finish up subtitling the first interview.
Finished the first video! Huzzah! Will burn to a DVD this weekend.

27 February 2008

Helped Daniel with a shoot for Kelm’s classes

26 February 2008

Continued typing up subtitles for the second interview.

24 February 2008

Began typing up subtitles for the second interview.

22 February 2008

Met with Bunmi and continued adding subtitles.

21 February 2008

Met with Bunmi to continue subtitling Video One.
Up to 12 minutes in the video, 8 1/2 minutes left to go!

Talked with Daniel as to whether there was a faster way to add subtitles. As of now, the answer is no.

19 February 2008

Finished typing up and adding all subtitles to Video One. Still have to meet with Bunmi to correctly align all text.

17 February 2008

Continued typing up subtitles

15 February 2008

Met with Bunmi and added more subtitles to Dr. Mosadomi’s footage.
Up to 8 1/2 minutes minutes of footage. Almost halfway done!
Continued typing up subtitles

14 February 2008

Began adding subtitles to Dr. Mosadomi’s footage with the help of Bunmi.
Added up to 5 minutes of footage. 25% done!
Continued typing up subtitles after Bunmi left, in hopes of speeding up the process.

12 February 2008

Weekly meeting, learned how to use Cascade!
Made a test webpage. Good stuff.
Finished capturing the last interview for Dr. Mosadomi.
Met with Bunmi and Dr. Mosadomi and talked about getting the transcriptions ready for Thursday.

To begin adding subtitles on Thursday, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

8 February 2008

Captured the footage from Dr. Mosadomi’s DVDs.
Separated each interview into it’s own sequence.

7 February 2008

Met with Ran, transferred over video clips.
Met with Dr. Mosadomi and her assistants to talk about subtitling her videos.

6 February 2008

Emailed Ran about uploading the videos to Hake’s website.
Emailed Dr. Mosadomi about meeting up to talk about captioning videos. Will be meeting on Thursday from 2-3 p.m.

5 February 2008

Weekly meeting
Exported all the Berlin videos
Went to Daniel and he taught me how to compress videos using Compressor

Compressed all the Berlin videos into formats for the web (300k)

1 February 2008

Inserted title cards and closing ITS/copyright titlecards into Berlin videos.
Will meet with Daniel next week to compress files.

Schedule time to speak with Ran

31 January 2008

Started rexporting the Berlin videos with the titlecard inserts.
talked to Daniel about exporting videos for the Web. Will meet with him next week to compress the files.

30 January 2008

Assisted with shooting student skits for Orlando Kelm

29 January 2008

Weekly meeting
Redesigned the Berlin title cards
Created an original and a “roll-over” titlecard

25 January 2008

Attempted to sort out the slide stuff. Went through folders to check which ones were done and compiled a master list of slides. Organized folders.
Edited some slides.

24 January 2008

Illustrator Tutorials:
Made “glassy” buttons

Learned how to do gradient fills

22 January 2008

Meeting with Gary and Suloni

17 January 2008

Helped Laura and Daniel film a 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade meeting.
Set up cameras, helped with mic check, broke down location at the end.

15 January 2008

Met with Gary and Suloni about this semester’s projects that I will be working on.
Will shadow under Laura with Arabic project

Corinna and I will learn to go solo on future video projects
Corinna helped me learn to use gradients in Illustrator.
Worked on the open book icon.

14 December 2007

Added shadows to icons.

13 December 2007

Began editing the Portuguese dialogues from last Friday and the shoot before that.
Finished all dialogues

Met with Orlando about which clips we will use

11 December 2007

Traced lips and open book icons
Still have to add shadow of glasses for open book icon

10 December 2007

Continued tracing Spanish icons.
Finished closed book icon.

7 December 2007

Filmed the second “Relationships” dialogue and the “Food” dialogues for the Portuguese Project. Last shoot of the semester!
Orlando to email about editing/finishing dialogues
Worked on the closed book icon again. Here is what I have:

6 December 2007

Began editing the “Relationships” dialogue for Portuguese Project
Finished one

5 December 2007

Corinna and I met with Suloni for a lesson in Illustrator.
Started tracing scanned images of Corinna’s drawings for the Spanish icons.

4 December 2007

Added screencaps from other films
Exported images to add to Wiki

Original

With different screencap from “Goodbye Lenin!”

With “Das Leben der Anderen”

With “Joyeux Noel”

With different screencap from “Joyeux Noel”

With “Christiane F.”

With different screencap from “Christiane F.”

With “Der Untergang”

With “Sophie Scholl”

3 December 2007

Weekly Meeting
Worked on titlecards (searched for different screencaps from other German films)

30 November 2007

Filmed dialogue for Portuguese Project. Subject: Relationships

29 November 2007

The second version of the Berlin title card (film strip) has been chosen. Changed a few things on it per Suloni’s request (text, color, etc.)

27 November 2007

Finished capturing all videos except for three clips (from media that aren’t currently working, i.e. PAL DVD, etc.).
Talked to Suloni about making title cards to preced the video clips. Created two mock-ups [below]

26 November 2007

Weekly meeting
Re-exported video files for Hake’s Berlin project (files were deleted/lost on “Wide Open Spaces”)
Exported files to external hard drive

Finished most of the video capturing. Only 4 videos to capture from remain.

15 November 2007

Continued capturing footage for Berlin project
Finished with: Germany Year Zero, Olympia, Die Architekten, Edukators, One Two Three, Wings of Desire

13 November 2007

Edited Berlin Slides
Checked with Mai-Thi about slides, assigned to work on digitizing video clips for Hake’s Berlin Project.

Began capturing footage from DVDs

Finished: Lola Rennt, Goodbye Lenin!, and Berlin Die Symphonie

12 November 2007

Weekly meeting, talked to Suloni about finished slides
Check over “finished” slides and compare them to originals

9 November 2007

Edited Berlin Slides
Organized the Slides list (noted which ones were done, still needed to be done, were “missing”)

8 November 2007

Edited Berlin slides

7 November 2007

Edited Berlin slides
Cleaned keyboards because they were gross :p
Emailed Daniel about Friday’s Portuguese Dialogues

6 November 2007

Went through the list Mai-Thi sent out and organised my slides.

5 November 2007

Meeting

2 November 2007

Stole some Berlin slides from Michael, continued editing Berlin slides.

1 November 2007

Helped Archaeology student with documentary video
Ripped Russian music video from DVD and exported it into a Quicktime file for Laura

30 October 2007

Edited Berlin slides

29 October 2007

Meeting

26 October 2007

Exported Portuguese videos using the iPod settings. Met with Orlando to view videos.
*Emailing Mike about editing audio for the dialogues
Finished editing all my Berlin slides!

25 October 2007

Continued editing Berlin slides. 5 done.

24 October 2007

Assigned to help color correct Berlin slides. Carrie (sp?) taught Corinna and me different color correcting techniques.
Finished two slides

23 October 2007

Experimented with different exporting settings in Final Cut to see which ones worked best for the Portuguese videos

22 October 2007

Weekly Meeting

21 October 2007

Fine-tuned some editing with the dialogues.
Attempted to add inserts of the Dog Close-ups, but to no avail (camera set-up didn’t allow for it)

19 October 2007

Found the dialogues that were missing, one of which was missing entirely and had yet to be added to the timeline. Edited said dialogues.
Exported the finished dialogues, emailed the missing takes to Orlando for viewing
Sat in on David’s Flash meeting with Corinna and Michael C.
Learned a bit of Flash!

18 October 2007

Met with Kevin and Orlando. Watched all the dialogues, Orlando chose which ones he liked best
Discovered that 2 dialogues were “missing” (i.e. overlooked during editing)

16 October 2007

Emailed Orlando and Kevin about the finished dialogue and about scheduling a meeting for Orlando to view the dialogues.
Meeting scheduled with Orlando on Thursday at 2 pm

15 October 2007

Finished editing all the Portuguese dialogues and exported them as Quicktime files for viewing.
Showed Gary, Suloni, etc. what Corinna and I have been working on during our weekly meeting

14 October 2007

Continued editing Portuguese dialogues. Exported some into Quicktime files for viewing.

12 October 2007

Finished editing “Pets” for Portuguese projects.
Laura informed me I am to join the Arabic Project for video editing.

10 October 2007

Met with Orlando about editing the Portuguese dialogues. Editing shall begin now!
Started editing said dialogues. Goal is to get the first shoot’s work done by Friday.

8 October 2007

Weekly meeting

5 October 2007

Portuguese dialogue shoot, “Hobbies”
Meeting scheduled for Tuesday with Orlando Kelm about starting the post-production work for the Portuguese dialogues.

3 October 2007

Assisted on a shoot with Mark/Laura for a Spanish project

2 October 2007

Starting to learn Illustrator via tutorials on the web. EXCITING!

1 October 2007

Weekly meeting

28 September 2007

Finished placing French characters onto scenic background

24 September 2007

Weekly meeting
Still working on characters. Only have Paw-Paw and Joe-Bob to do

25 September 2007

Finished Joe-Bob!
Started working on Paw-Paw

26 September 2007

Done and done. Finished the Tex’s French Grammar characters!

16 September 2007

Presented what I’ve been working on

17 September 2007

Still working on characters for Tex-French Grammar
Finished Bette and Corey
Updated Fiona’s coloring

18 September 2007

Became ill with “the plague,” resulting in my not being able to make
it to lab hours and the scheduled shoot for the Portuguese project 🙁

10th September 2007: Weekly Meeting

Inserted tile into Wiki page
At Gary’s suggestion, I have edited my Trainspotting image to include a nickname. I am Curly. 🙂
Presented what I have been working on

11 September 2007