Student Originated Studies: Media

EVALUATION WEEK: 11-13 June 2007

Conferences Mon-Wed (Julia’s Office-Seminar 2, D2108)

Please bring a completed self-evaluation to your conference. I STRONGLY advise you to create one self-evaluation for your year in SOS:Media or as an EM Intern, to include your previously-written self-evals from fall and winter quarters, as well as one for spring, with a summary paragraph that opens the self-eval that reflects on the most significant things you LEARNED this year (not so much a list of the most important things you learned how to do, but a paragraph about the larger issues, ideas, and themes that shaped your year).

Monday, June 11:

11:00-11:45 Amanda Nguyen
11:45-12:30 Anthony
12:30-1:15 Amber
1:15-2:00 Jed
2:45-3:30 Morgan
3:30-4:15 Randy
4:15-5:00 Brad

Tuesday June 12
11:00-11:45 Melissa
11:45-12:30 Ry
12:30-1:15 Chris
1:15-2:00 Alex

2:45-3:30 Jared Arave
3:30-4:15 Hien Le
4:15-5:00 Drew
5:00-5:45 Dre'

Wednesday June 13
11:15-12:00 Julian
12:00-12:45 Nadia
12:45-1:30 John
1:30-2:15 Callie

2:45-3:30 Heather Hall
3:30-4:15 Dylan Quarles
4:15-5:00 Ben

Final screening: Weds June 13, 7:00pm: Com Building Recital Hall

Dear SOS'ers:

As of 31 May (wk 9) I have these people showing work:

Anthony Simon

Ben Blankenship

John Boucher

Jed Smith: Lethe (5:30)

Alex Tripp

Morgan Dusatko & Brad Hutchinson: The Trouble With Unicorns

Amber Smith

Chris Clark

Nadia buyse: Puppet Confessionals #1 (5:50); Old Haunts, "Fuel on Fire" [music video] (2:30)

Callie Travis

Drew House

Ike Rivelle

Brian Fligner

Laura Northrup

Emily Mercer

Melissa Bruns

From esteemed film scholar David Bordwell, author (with Kristin Thompson) of the classic college film texts Film Art: An Introduction and Film History: An Introduction, comes this engaging blog post on the logic of DVD viewing, "New Media and Old Storytelling"

Peter Rose mentioned this during his visit...and I just happened to find these>>>

Peter Rose Films online at UBUWEB
 

Hi SOS'ers:

A few things--

1. There is time this week (wk 6) for anyone else who might have WIP to show. Let Jed and I know if you'd like to add yourself to the list.

2. I am considering dropping the Copyright/Fair Use workshop week 8, in the interest of having enough time to get to all the WIP screenings that day. I don't imagine that most of you will get to the reading that's important to do in preparation for that workshop, nor do I imagine that many of you will have time to prepare materials to contribute to it as we discussed week 1 that some of you might. I understand that there is interest among you in these issues of copyright/fair use, etc. but I think our time that week may be more productively spent  focused directly on your current work. I will post information and links to resources (these are on the paper syllabus I handed out week 1). If you have questions about this, let me know.

3. You'll soon be hearing (by email) from a contract student of Ruth's and mine, Dylan Quarles, who has spent the year scripting, shooting, and editing a short film. He will be holding a rough cut screening on Tuesday afternoon of week 7 or 8 in Com 326 after we're done. I told him that you all would be an astute group of viewers for him. Not required, of course, but if you're willing to view and give him feedback that day, he'd be most appreciative.

4. Ruth, Peter Randlette, and I are planning to host an end-of-the-year celebratory BBQ dinner in honor of all of you and the EM interns! We'll do this at Ruth and Peter's house Week 8 or 9. I hope we can find an evening that works for all of you. We'll work this out in class next week.

Have a swell weekend.

__jUlia

There is now a new page under the Assignments link, called the Resources page. Any useful materials that you come across during your finishing school workshop material search, should be posted there, for the benefit of everyone.

It has a wiki-like edit structure. Instead of posting content with the "create content" link, please add content to it by clicking on the edit tab of the Resources page, and adding your content, in the appropriate category, to the content that already exists there, and then creating a new revision. This strategy is assuming all of your good will, so please don't go on an edit rampage and delete what people before you have written.

PLEASE NOTE

Week 6 and Week 7 we will meet in COM 308 for our morning session @ 10:00 am. We'll move back to COM 326 for our afternoon sessions.

Here's some detail on this Tuesday's (May 1) Evergreen media alums panel. Anne Fischel and Beatriz Flores Gutierrez, Mediaworks faculty, have arranged this event and invited us to attend. This is a fantastic opportunity to hear from recent grads about their creative work and media career paths.

We'll be in Seminar 2, C-1105 from 10 am to 1 pm.

Panelists include:

--Erica Schisler '91, Adobe Software Developer and Graduate Student in UW's Master of Communication in Digital Media Program: http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/overview/index.html
Erica is Group Program Manager for Digital Video and Audio Engineering at Adobe, where she has worked for 12 years. Over this time she has worked in product marketing and has collaborated with teams to define best practices for software development. She recently spent three months in the South Pacific exploring the life and influences of Len Lye, an early animator who based his work on indigenous design from paper. Erica received her BA from The Evergreen State College with an emphasis in filmmaking and animation.

--Laurel Spellman Smith '97, independent documentary filmmaker. Directed the documentary "Busting Out" (2004) http://www.stiritup.com/index.php
Laurel is a two-time regional Emmy Award-winning producer of national and local programs for PBS including the critically acclaimed feature documentary "Faith and Fear: The Children of Krishna" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." She graduated from the Evergreen State College with a degree in cultural anthropology and film. She is an avid traveler and often incorporates footage from around the world in her documentaries.
Interview with Laurel about "Busting Out" here: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/175484_moment01.html

--Jamala Henderson '98, Announcer and Reporter at KUOW 94.9 Seattle's NPR Station http://www.kuow.org/about/staff.asp?staff=1260

There have been a couple small changes to the Drupal website.

• The Assignments page now is a list of posts rather than one static page.
• The "Student Work" link has been renamed to "Student Blogs", and if you click on a person's name, you can now view a listing of all previous of their posts, organized by date. This is useful for keeping up on what specific people have posted recently. If you want to just see a list of all most recent posts, just continue to use the "Recent Posts" link.

Also, don't forget to post an blog update for week three, as well as your Goals statement, by tomorrow (Tue W4, 04-24). If you haven't posted an update for Week 2, I (for one) am curious what you have been doing.

Regards,

~Jed

Be sure to check the Assignments Page as posts will be going up there this week about the things you need to complete in order to receive full credit this spring quarter.

Hello everyone.
The schedule for the individual meetings with Julia is up on the Drupal site.

All meetings will be in COM 326. Make sure to bring your personal syllabus / schedule, as well as any additional work you want to show Julia. She will have read your fall/winter self-evaluations, and Ruth's evaluations of you, as well as watched your DVDs, by this point.

Since Drew, John, and Callie weren't in class at the end of last Tuesday in order to sign up, they have placed at 3:30, 4:00, and 4:30, respectively.

Hello Everyone.
This is a friendly reminder about our weekly drupal-site post agreement from our last class meeting. What have you all been doing? What have I been doing? I'm curious. Aren't you?

If anyone is having any problems or has any questions about the site, please don't hesitate to contact me.

~Jed