We are making a video!

Alright, so with our ethnography project, we have had many ideas about what we were going to do with it. Our first idea was to make a simple PowerPoint/Prezi. When we thought about Prezi, we thought that we might be able to make some kind of kinetic text thing (Where the words fall onto the screen). We thought that would be an interesting way of talking about our "journey" because they are not boring like a typical PowerPoint. This led us to doing research about making kinetic texts and we found out thy are actually very hard to do. Not only that, but they take a lot of time. So that kind of ruined that idea. Back to the drawing board. We started to think about other things that we could do that would be interesting. Oh and our topic was Objects, which is very vague. When we met on Thursday morning, we came us with the idea of walking around campus and filming us finding hidden texts and literacy's. We already knew of a couple places that we wanted to include in the video, so we just started to walk. When we did this, we came up with a 25 minute video and we were going to fast forward the parts where we are walking to the next destination. In thought, this would make about a 5 minute video. Well the program that i am using for this cant take a video that long and speed it up in a smooth way. This makes our video very rough and choppy; however, it looks exactly like a stop motion movie. I am using this idea and running with the ball. We are going to act like we made a stop motion movie which is when you take thousands of pictures and play them in a way that it looks like a video. It is really cool and very effective if done correctly. I am going to talk to Lacy about it to make sure that she approves, but i think we have made a big move in the right direction this week.

This is a video of one of my favorite stop motion videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ8ZWMlObGE

Ethnography Project Ideas

In class, we were asked a bunch of questions about our project that was meant to get us thinking about how we were going to go about doing this project. The questions and answers that were asked are listed below

1) What is your issue/message.... the so what of your project:
-We are going to talk about how this project will bring awareness to UNCC students about objects that hold literacy meanings on campus that they would normally not notice.
2) What are we definitely going to use
-Woods(House, Rock, Grave, Blacksmith Building,) Belk Tower, Echo Circle.
3) Who else cares about this or should care about this?  Where are they?  What public spaces do you find them in?

-New students, prospective student, current students, and visitors. They can come from anywhere and the  objects are placed in the center of public spaces to bring people together.

4) How can you infiltrate this space with your project? Be CREATIVE and don’t worry about if it is actually doable yet.

-Our project is the space and the space is inviting for anyone to enjoy. It is owned by nobody and anyone can use the space.

5) Now plan an enactment of the scenario to share ideas with the class.

-We can give a tour or add these locations to the already created tour of UNCC and show off all of these hidden locations/symbols to anybody that wants to go. We can also make a YouTube video. Have a chalk arrow that is drawn into the ground and don't say what it is for. Let curiosity take control of the students and then when they get to the end of the trail have the fact written into the ground.

Below is the picture of the grave site that I talked about in my last blog. This is in the woods by the east deck parking garage.

 

Annotated Bibilography

For out ethnography project, we went out and took a bunch of pictures of things that we saw around campus. There were all supposed to relate back to "Objects". We had no real direction to go about finding these things, so we just went and walked around until we found different things. We were looking for just abstract objects and things that most people would usually over look.

Belk Tower, Charlotte. 30 Oct 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file

We all met up at Belk tower because it was something that everybody on campus knows and a central spot. We heard that the Belk tower was supposed to be a old style pen and an inc tray. We took a picture of this because we though that it was something that not many people would think about.

A Building that looks like a Camera.

There is another spot on campus that is a building. we walked around looking for this building but unfortunately  we couldn't find it. Supposedly is you look at this building from Google maps,  it looks exactly like a camera. We are going to continue to look around for this one.

Grave Site, Charlotte. 30 Oct 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file.

Inside the garden by east deck there is a burial site that holds the founder or UNCC. I believe he name was something cone? i want to say Bonnie. I never would have though that this would be on campus and it was something very interesting, at least in my mind. 

As we continue to work on this project we find that there are a lot of hidden things on campus and we think that we are going to go about finding a lot of them and show them in our project.