Hello and Welcome back!
If you are looking for the Information Genie short film, scroll down to the post below.
I had some trouble getting the video onto Youtube. Although I've seen media up there that was longer than ten minutes, I guess the free account doesn't allow that option.
Today the video went out as an email link to my co-workers on Lotus Notes. Hopefully that will put the short in view of information professionals, who will then show it to other professionals. I sent out the link that goes to my blog rather than Youtube. Much of library and web 2.0 envolves interlinking technologies. Maybe I can attract some more readers by hosting this at the blog :)
Part one is up on Myspace as well, offering another portal for the project to travel from. I'm very possessive of my privacy usually, but in the interest of this project I'm temporarily removing the privacy block. You can see the video at
http://www.myspace.com/theadambpage
EDIT: The myspace page should be open now.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Information Genie Comes out of His Lamp...Soon
And....
The project is done! Currently the video is being processed on youtube. It has already been uploaded, but apparently it takes some time to get up there on the web page. Once it is, I'll be embedding it here in this blog as part of the "viral" project for people to view, as well as post a link to where the video hails from, email the link, etc etc.
The project is done! Currently the video is being processed on youtube. It has already been uploaded, but apparently it takes some time to get up there on the web page. Once it is, I'll be embedding it here in this blog as part of the "viral" project for people to view, as well as post a link to where the video hails from, email the link, etc etc.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Viral video project update
Well, filming is finally done! Hooray!
Scenes I and IV got shot over the weekend. It only took about 5 hours. In the end, I got some good footage for the project, "The information Genie." We celebrated the "wrap party" at Arnies.
For those who may not be familiar with the project, the short film is about an irresponsible young worker whose poor researching costs him his job. He finds a lamp with a genie that allows him to go back in time and correct his mistake.
I anticipate about 5-10 hours of editing work and sound work before the video will be available, which brings me to the viral stage of the project.
Video is becoming a more prominent medium on the web, as are the ways to distribute it. I intend to accomplish this in a few ways. The first problem to overcome is finding a place to host the video. One such place is certainly going to be Youtube. Once the video is up there, i can send the link out to people via email, and don't have to worry about using up a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. Also, once on youtube you can embed the video in social networks.
The target audience for this video is young business people. Social networks allow one option to reach this demo graph. The light-hearted nature of the project is enticing to watch in leisure time (which is when the target audience would be watching it) and then, hopefully, take the message of the video back to work with them, or spread it around to co-workers.
Email forwards from young workers can reach a slightly older demo graph. For the purpose of this project, I'll email the link to the video to the other members of this class. I hope you enjoy it!
Scenes I and IV got shot over the weekend. It only took about 5 hours. In the end, I got some good footage for the project, "The information Genie." We celebrated the "wrap party" at Arnies.
For those who may not be familiar with the project, the short film is about an irresponsible young worker whose poor researching costs him his job. He finds a lamp with a genie that allows him to go back in time and correct his mistake.
I anticipate about 5-10 hours of editing work and sound work before the video will be available, which brings me to the viral stage of the project.
Video is becoming a more prominent medium on the web, as are the ways to distribute it. I intend to accomplish this in a few ways. The first problem to overcome is finding a place to host the video. One such place is certainly going to be Youtube. Once the video is up there, i can send the link out to people via email, and don't have to worry about using up a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. Also, once on youtube you can embed the video in social networks.
The target audience for this video is young business people. Social networks allow one option to reach this demo graph. The light-hearted nature of the project is enticing to watch in leisure time (which is when the target audience would be watching it) and then, hopefully, take the message of the video back to work with them, or spread it around to co-workers.
Email forwards from young workers can reach a slightly older demo graph. For the purpose of this project, I'll email the link to the video to the other members of this class. I hope you enjoy it!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Three things that undergrad students should know about EBSCO
Three short but sweet things that students would find useful about EBSCOhost:
1. EBSCO is a vendor and a portal to other databases. It is not in itself a database. I see a lot of students coming in refering to EBSCO as a database onto itself, and then get frustrated when they can't find what they want. Letting students know what is in the EBSCO suite seems to eliminate a lot of confusion.
2. You can change the preferences in EBSCO (under the preference link) to show a details from a search, rather than just brief bibliographic data. This eliminated the need to individually click on a resource to view the abstract, and speeds the searching process up greatly.
3. Citing .pdfs, for all practical purposes, are no different than having the physical journal in front of you. They do not count as "internet" sources.
1. EBSCO is a vendor and a portal to other databases. It is not in itself a database. I see a lot of students coming in refering to EBSCO as a database onto itself, and then get frustrated when they can't find what they want. Letting students know what is in the EBSCO suite seems to eliminate a lot of confusion.
2. You can change the preferences in EBSCO (under the preference link) to show a details from a search, rather than just brief bibliographic data. This eliminated the need to individually click on a resource to view the abstract, and speeds the searching process up greatly.
3. Citing .pdfs, for all practical purposes, are no different than having the physical journal in front of you. They do not count as "internet" sources.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Irony...
Ironic how I lambast Google's email service but my blog only allows those with Google email accounts to post. I have changed this setting. Thanks to Ken for calling this to my attention!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Work Homework
I've got some homework from work to take care of before Dec 1st, and that is to read a very specific book. The book is entitled Library 2.0: A guide to participatory Library Service by Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk. This books might be of interest to those who wish to find a way to implement more library 2.0 concepts into their environment. I'm three pages in, mind you, but it offers some of the reasons change is moving forward and why it is being resisted as well as specific 2.0 concepts and how to implement them well. Honestly, it would make a pretty good "text-book" for 5433.
This is all in preparation of a meeting sometime soon. It should be a learning experience.
Update on the FINAL PROJECT!
I got scenes 2 and 3 digitized. I feel like I'm being vague in these public descriptions, but honestly, I'm just trying to create an aire of mystery and anticipation! When the project is done, it will be sent out across the web for everyone to enjoy and bask in my ametuer camera work. Digitization took about 30 minutes, but it was worth previewing what I have in the can already. Scenes 1 and 4 will get shot next week, and i the meantime i get to tinker with Movie Maker's audio functions and see what can be done about cutting out some of the background noise. Maybe there is a module I can download and plug in.
Scenes 2 and 3 digitized into about 125 takes. I think i can squeeze out a few good takes from all that. Ideally, there is going to be a "PG" version and a directors cut version, but that may end up being a "light R" version and a directors cut. My actors have foul mouths that are difficult to control!
This is all in preparation of a meeting sometime soon. It should be a learning experience.
Update on the FINAL PROJECT!
I got scenes 2 and 3 digitized. I feel like I'm being vague in these public descriptions, but honestly, I'm just trying to create an aire of mystery and anticipation! When the project is done, it will be sent out across the web for everyone to enjoy and bask in my ametuer camera work. Digitization took about 30 minutes, but it was worth previewing what I have in the can already. Scenes 1 and 4 will get shot next week, and i the meantime i get to tinker with Movie Maker's audio functions and see what can be done about cutting out some of the background noise. Maybe there is a module I can download and plug in.
Scenes 2 and 3 digitized into about 125 takes. I think i can squeeze out a few good takes from all that. Ideally, there is going to be a "PG" version and a directors cut version, but that may end up being a "light R" version and a directors cut. My actors have foul mouths that are difficult to control!
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Viral video filming
The making of the viral video film continues. Real progress has been made, but the process is still unbearably slow. The biggest challenge has been getting my cast and equipment in order. My original way to obtain a camera fell through, so i obtained a different camera through the media department at school. Its another film/digital hybrid camera that just about fits in the palm of my hand.
My crew and I shot footage on location for about 5 hours today. Poor guys, I ran em pretty raw, taking repeat footage of the same sequences over and over again. We shot footage for scene 2 and 3 in my 4 scene viral project, "The Information Genie," including alternate footage for a more "G" rated version. This is the first video project I've ever done from a production side, and the first video project ever for my main lead, so it was a learning experience.
We had problems from the get go. The audio wasn't very good on the camera, so I pretty much had the actors shouting for a lot of the shots. The film location that I scouted out earlier actually ended being a poor location to film, but by the time we realized that we had committed to location. There was a lot of pedestrian traffic and screaming children running up to us that bogged the process down greatly and forced about 25 retakes.
In the end though, I got some pretty good shots for the project. Tomorrow they will be loaded onto a digital format (a process which requires a fire cable. The cable i have, but my laptop doesn't have a port for it! Work computers once again to the rescue!) and the process of editing these scenes can begin!
With half the physical work done, a date just has to be set up to film scenes 1 and 4: both office scenes. I got permission to film on an office location, so shooting should begin sometime the week after next for the last of the filming. The digital props for the scenes are crafted, including a fake "search engine" web page called "Mergle" and a fully crafted information broker web form (hand written HTML, never though i coulda done that!) This is turning out to be an awful lot of work, but i think it will be worth it in the end.
My crew and I shot footage on location for about 5 hours today. Poor guys, I ran em pretty raw, taking repeat footage of the same sequences over and over again. We shot footage for scene 2 and 3 in my 4 scene viral project, "The Information Genie," including alternate footage for a more "G" rated version. This is the first video project I've ever done from a production side, and the first video project ever for my main lead, so it was a learning experience.
We had problems from the get go. The audio wasn't very good on the camera, so I pretty much had the actors shouting for a lot of the shots. The film location that I scouted out earlier actually ended being a poor location to film, but by the time we realized that we had committed to location. There was a lot of pedestrian traffic and screaming children running up to us that bogged the process down greatly and forced about 25 retakes.
In the end though, I got some pretty good shots for the project. Tomorrow they will be loaded onto a digital format (a process which requires a fire cable. The cable i have, but my laptop doesn't have a port for it! Work computers once again to the rescue!) and the process of editing these scenes can begin!
With half the physical work done, a date just has to be set up to film scenes 1 and 4: both office scenes. I got permission to film on an office location, so shooting should begin sometime the week after next for the last of the filming. The digital props for the scenes are crafted, including a fake "search engine" web page called "Mergle" and a fully crafted information broker web form (hand written HTML, never though i coulda done that!) This is turning out to be an awful lot of work, but i think it will be worth it in the end.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Puss in Books
Very interesting documentary on library cats. I watched this a few days ago and thought it was pretty good. The interviewees range from the stereotypical "shhhsh!" librarians to the "crazy cat loving" librarians to more. The company that produced this documentary can be found here at http://www.ironfrog.com/
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