ARCHIVE - Student Originated Studies: Media -

ARCHIVE - Map and Directions to Weds Party

Julia Zay — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:23:11 -0700

Wednesday's Dinner Party

6:30 pm

Ruth and Peter's House

ARCHIVE - Evaluation Week Info and Schedule

Julia Zay — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:38:44 -0700

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

ARCHIVE - Final Screening Roster

Julia Zay — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:03:42 -0700

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

ARCHIVE - David Bordwell on the logic of DVD viewing

Julia Zay — Sun, 13 May 2007 22:05:57 -0700

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"

ARCHIVE - Peter Rose Films...Online

Julia Zay — Sat, 05 May 2007 18:13:28 -0700

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

Peter Rose Films online at UBUWEB

ARCHIVE - Week 5/6 Announcements!

Julia Zay — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:36:36 -0700

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

ARCHIVE - Resources Page

smijed07 — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:40:08 -0700

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.

ARCHIVE - Weeks 6 + 7 Morning Location Change

Julia Zay — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:45:25 -0700

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.

ARCHIVE - New Projects will Benefit from Treatments

Julia Zay — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:15:08 -0700

Are you embarking upon a *new* project this quarter? If so, keep in mind that all new projects benefit from TREATMENTS, and out in the real world you'll have to write 'em regularly.

If this means YOU, I'd like you to write a treatment for your new project and post it on the drupal site for us to read. This will keep your peers in the loop and better able to provide you with helpful feedback.

ARCHIVE - Sample Documents for FINISHING SCHOOL WORKSHOP

Julia Zay — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:11:40 -0700

There are a million-and-one career websites and books out there with numerous examples of successful cover letters, resumes, etc. And every college and university in the world has a Career Center with websites full of resources. There are also thousands of artists websites out there with artist statements for you to look at. See our RESOURCES page.

But, I'll attach here a few of my own documents for you to peruse:

• 1-page resume (at this point, you all should be creating resumes no longer than 1 page.)

• Complete CV (curriculum vitae): follows guidelines on CAA site for CV for Visual Artists

• Cover letter/letter of interest: This letter was not written to apply for a specific job, but to express my interest in working for an audio documentary producer whose work I admire. I followed up on this letter with a phone call about 1 week after sending it. She didn't have work available but was very open to talking with me when we spoke by phone.

• Graduate school statement of application/purpose. Application to the MFA in Video program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

• List of Work Submitted with MFA application: Provide a key to the creative materials submitted. This is the "packing list" that ensures that your application materials stay together and are viewed in their entirety. It also reeks of good organization skills!

**Remember, clarity, neatness, and professionalism are key here. But since you're all artists of one kind of another, you'll want to use this as an opportunity to create aesthetically-pleasing documents, as well. Don't overdesign them, but it always counts to show evidence that you spent time crafting not only the content, but also the look of your application materials.

Attachment	Size
CVZay07.pdf	108.6 KB
WorkSubmittedKey.pdf	32.36 KB
MFAAppStatement.pdf	101.58 KB
CoverLetterOfInterest.pdf	17.92 KB
JuliaResumeSample.pdf	63.98 KB

ARCHIVE - Week 5 - Evergreen Alums working in Media

Julia Zay — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:31:41 -0700

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
Before landing at KUOW, Jamala studied film and video at Evergreen, where she obtained a BA. She gained audio skills working as a production assistant at the Washington State Department of Information Services, hosting some shows as a volunteer at KBCS in Bellevue, then working at the Evergreen Radio Reading Service for several years as a Broadcaster.

ARCHIVE - Drupal Updates

smijed07 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:58:56 -0700

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

ARCHIVE - Check Assignments Page

Julia Zay — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:12:04 -0700

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.

ARCHIVE - Individual Meetings: Schedule

smijed07 — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:42:52 -0700

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.

ARCHIVE - What Have You All Been Up To?

smijed07 — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:33:43 -0700

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

ARCHIVE - Spring Syllabus Up

smijed07 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:50:01 -0700

Hello everyone.

Just to let you all know, the Spring Syllabus has been posted in draft form on the Drupal site. Consider this document to be fluid, and check back often for updates. Julia has said that she will provide a more complete syllabus by our first meeting (mirrored on the Drupal site of course).

Most of our meeting times this upcoming quarter will be in COM 326 on Tuesdays, from 10am to 5pm. These times may vary somewhat within these hours, depending on the week. Note that on Week 9 we DO NOT meet Tuesday but instead have individual
conferences Weds-Thurs (locations TBA).

Also, as it stands now, our final screening is likely going to be Wed. or Thurs. of Evaluation week, rather than Week 10 as was previously mentioned.

ARCHIVE - Fall Quarter Installation Photographs

smijed07 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:12:15 -0800

Attached there are some jpeg photographs inside of a zip file taken by John Huey of the "Bunny Procreation Party" installation that SOS Media did during Fall Quarter.

Attachment	Size
SOSMediaBunnies.zip	13.62 MB

ARCHIVE - Winter Syllabus Updates

smijed07 — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:29:45 -0800

The Winter Syllabus has been updated with Work In Progress Critique schedules, individual conference schedules, and Tea/Breakfast and Icebreaker activity responsibilities. Refer to it for your place in the schema of things.

ARCHIVE - Recent Drupal Updates

smijed07 — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:17:44 -0800

You can now view most recent posts in the Recent Posts link in the sidebar.
The Contact link now has contact information for all members of SOS Media.

In the Production Calendar link in the sidebar, there is a new page where you can post dates of shoots, and have them displayed in a calendar format. This is very clunky, but is functional and might be useful for people wanting assistance with their productions. You might be better off using a service like Google Calendar and then linking to that in a "student work" post. However, here is how to operate the drupal calendar.

To create a new post on the calendar, you must Create Content (sidebar under your username), and choose the "event" type.
Then enter a title for your event. This is what will show up in the post on the calendar, so you should probably identify it with your name or the name of your project.
You can then choose a category (your name, or Ctrl-click for multiple names, if a multi-person production) for it to be listed under.
You can then enter more information about your event, which will be shown when someone clicks on your event in the calendar view.

When viewing the calendar, you can filter the events by student-name category, in order to display events from only one person. By default, the calendar shows events in all categories.

For now, please refrain from changing your username and password. Since login to the Drupal page happens through Evergreen's Central Authentication Service, it will alter nothing, and only mess things up. If you want to change your password, change your Evergreen password. Your username can only be what your Evergreen username is. Perhaps this will be fixed soon.

ARCHIVE - Winter Syllabus Posted

smijed07 — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:09:56 -0800

The Winter Syllabus has been posted in skeleton form. Continue to refer back to it as the quarter progresses, and continuous updates are assuredly applied to it.