Project Mock-Up:
Since last class, I’ve continued to read Pride and Prejudice, and then produced this mock-up today. When I’m done reading completely, I’ll be able to fill out the mock-up with specific stories.
This mock-up is modeled after the actual Page Six website. I’m now thinking about making a website to display my project, so it seemed like a good idea to re-create the actual Page Six site.
“Cast”
Lizzie Borden: known spinster in her small MA town, close to her father but very wary about her stepmother. Had been caught doing some peculiar things such as burning clothes and attempting to buy prussic acid.
George Zimmerman: insurance-fraud investigator and an active participant in his neighborhood’s criminal watch. Was working towards a degree in criminal justice but no other law-enforcement background.
Borden Timeline:
1892
Pre-Murder: Was remembered buying prussic acid in a drug store after her stepmother was seen by the doctor from feeling “deathly ill”
8/4: father and stepmother ‘found’ by Lizzie and a housekeeper around noon. The time of death was determined to be between 1040 and 1130pm.
8/5: Lizzie got an attorney though she was not yet charged
8/9: Lizzie was charged with the murders after rumors spread that she burned the dress that she was wearing on the fourth.
8/22-8/28: Preliminary Hearing
1893
6/5: Trial begins
6/19: Trial ends
6/20: Lizzie Borden found not guilty
1897
Charged with theft of art. Lost all credibility of innocence from the murders
Zimmerman Timeline
2012
Pre-Murder: over 50 calls to the police department, known as the man who cried wolf
2/26: called the police, dispatcher heard a gunshot at 7:16m, Zimmerman was rushed to the hospital and treated for minor cuts and wounds
3/12: More media got involved, pushing police to further look into Zimmerman’s account of self defense
4/11: Zimmerman finally arrested after an uprise from the black community
4/20: FBI begins to look into it-full national medic covereage
6/24: Trial begins
7/12: Trial ends
7/13: found not guilty
2013
death threats, questioning, other illegal firearm purchases
Why were they acquitted? Race, gender?
What I’ve Done: Today I started on my story board for my project. Because my project is a video of pictures, I did not feel like it was necessary to create a mock up because my project has limited words and layout features. I chose to draw out the mock up myself because it is easier for me to get my ideas across when I don’t have to worry about the constraints of technology.
What I Have To Do: Although I have a general idea of the type of pictures that I am going to use in my project, I still need to go out and take the pictures. I feel like when I am actually walking around taking photos for my project, it will be easier to see what I still need for my project. I plan to do that this weekend to follow the steps in my timeline.
Today in class, we began planning our storyboard. While I am not at this step yet, I have begun to search for video clips for my project. I don’t think I can start the storyboard until I have all my materials and I know what I can use for sure. After I have obtained all of them, I will be able to use one of free resources to plan out my video clips.
Afterwards, I plan to use a free trial of Adobe Premiere to start putting my video together.
I have also been searching the internet for similar videos to what I am planning on creating. This includes from sites such as College Humor and YouTube. I am using these for inspiration and influence when making my own video.
This weekend I hope to have all my clips acquired and by next a basic layout of the video planned out.
What I did
Today I worked on selecting the video clips that I wanted to include in my project. There were a total of about 10 different clips form Finding Nemo that I wanted to include. All of the clips are still rough and I need to work on editing them.
Why I did it
It is important to have the right clips selected for my project. Since I am remixing a movie it is important to select the right clips and make sure that everything flows together.
What I did:
I worked on pinning pins to Barney’s suit board.
Why I did it:
I wanted to get a jump start on Barney’s board because I finished his other board the other day.
Today in class we had to design a storyboard or outline of our final project. Since mine is difficult to do via storyboard I decided to just outline the Pinterest boards that I am doing. There are a total of 16 boards and each board will have 3-8 pins on it.
Outline:
Miscellaneous:
Families:
Characters:
I have created a timeline that includes the dates of all the remaining classes in this semester and what I need to have done by each class session. This timeline also incorporates the dates that we must have certain aspects of the projects completed.
Friday, November 7
Finalize a realistic timeline and adjust my magazine as needed based on the assessment of how many days I have left to complete it.
Monday, November 10
Complete an in-depth and strict storyboard for my magazine. This includes deciding exactly which princess stories I want to remix, the title of the magazine, and all other content that will go in my magazine.
Wednesday, November 12
Finish writing all of the content for the interview pages of my magazine. Once the content is written, I can begin the document design aspect of my project. I would also like to have figured out what tool I am going to use to make my pages ‘flip’ by this date.
I spent a lot of time formulating the timeline above not only Wednesday in class, but also yesterday and this morning. I also decided that rather than having me be the writer and editor of the magazine, I want Belle from Beauty and the Beast to the be one “writing” the magazine. Essentially, I will create my project to be an issue of a magazine that Belle publishes monthly.
I spent so much time formulating my time because I do not want to have to go back and redo it, nor do I want to find myself spending too much time on one aspect of the magazine and forgetting all the other components of my project. My timeline also helped me evaluate whether I will have enough time to complete all the components of the magazine that I desire. I designed my timeline so that in case I do run close on time, all the essential parts of my project are “due” at the beginning, and all the extra, not necessarily essential, components are at the end.
I decided that I want my magazine to be written from Belle from Beauty and the Beast because I felt that added an additional remix to the project. As Belle loved to read and had plenty of time to write as she was locked in the castle with the beast, I think it is perfectly fitting that she be the author of the magazine. I plan to create an ‘About the Author’ page that describes what she thinks about the issue (the magazine I create) and why she wanted to highlight her friends (other princesses) as empowered young women.
