Time transcripts of lackeylavecchia3

[00:00:00:00]	So, this week at DMAC, you're handed a prompt: "Make a Concept in 60

[00:00:04:01]	Second" video. What kind of went through your mind as soon as you

[00:00:08:04]	got that assignment prompt? Theresa Dark: Well, originally, I 

[00:00:12:08]	was really excited, and I thought this would be easy for me

[00:00:16:10]	because I had this whole idea of literacy that i wanted to 

[00:00:20:12]	explore and I had some slides and some pictures and

[00:00:24:14]	so when they gave us the camera and said, you know, go out, so I immediately started

[00:00:28:18]	taking pictures of the construction crew working and the different things happening

[00:00:32:20]	so I though, "Okay, this is going to work." Well, I was wrong.

[00:00:36:23]	It didn't work. I couldn't get that one piece that would make it all gel together

[00:00:40:26]	And so then I was kind of stymied about what I was going to

[00:00:44:28]	do next. I didn't know what I was looking for.

[00:00:48:28]	I just knew I hadn't found it, because every time 

[00:00:53:00]	I kept trying to put it together I felt like I was shoving something together

[00:00:57:03]	that wasn't working for me. So I knew I had to just stop.

[00:01:01:08]	And dump that concept, and find a whole new one.

[00:01:05:09]	So that of course panicked me because I was on a time frame.

[00:01:09:11]	So that was very difficult, and I'm sitting there going "Okay, how do I get this done?"

[00:01:13:16]	Ginger Grey: When we first got the assignment, I was actually pretty nervous.

[00:01:17:18]	About what was expected of me, and, you know, just

[00:01:21:20]	that experience of going from 

[00:01:25:23]	having no experience with the technology, not having

[00:01:29:24]	an idea of where I was going to go.... It was...It was very

[00:01:33:29]	different that what I'm used to. So when I sit down to write an essay

[00:01:38:01]	or to write a story, I feel like even if I don't know where it's going

[00:01:42:05]	I know that I'm going to get there. I know that...I know kind of

[00:01:46:10]	what it's going to look like. I can visualize the structure, right? 

[00:01:50:10]	I sit down to do this assignment and it was just chaos.

[00:01:54:13]	[ Available Means ]

[00:01:58:19]	Henrietta Rix Wood: So, I conceptualize and 

[00:02:02:20]	thought also, what can I manage? What technology can I deal with?

[00:02:06:22]	And I used to be a newspaper reporter, and I think my 

[00:02:10:25]	sense, and I think I must be a frustrated documentary maker [ laughs ] so my sense of

[00:02:14:28]	was going out and trying to report a story using the technology

[00:02:18:29]	I'd just been introduced to. Interviewer: ...a different direction? Erin Cahill: Some of my initial thoughts

[00:02:23:01]	were more interview-based, with people around me

[00:02:27:03]	Yeah, so there was definitely interest in other projects

[00:02:31:08]	and in other areas and stuff, but just with limitations of space and time

[00:02:35:08]	you say, okay, for this particular assignment I might want to focus it down even a little bit 

[00:02:39:10]	more, and, also I'm going to be moving in a few months so I

[00:02:43:13]	that kind of made me think...kind of got me thinking about creating 

[00:02:47:18]	space and, start looking for new furniture and for new lighting arrangements and

[00:02:51:19]	stuff.. Eddie Singleton: I was pondering the project and 

[00:02:55:23]	it was really an off-hand remark that Cindy made

[00:02:59:24]	as I was thinking about what I could do for that project

[00:03:03:29]	she said "You should do something with music." Just because she knows that music is

[00:03:08:02]	an important part of my life, and so in some ways

[00:03:12:05]	This is a confession... I thought what do I have 

[00:03:16:10]	right at hand, like, that will make it possible for me to make this video! 

[00:03:20:10]	in the next 24 hours! And so, in some ways, it was just 

[00:03:24:14]	a very practical decision. Kara Poe Alexander: I... First of all, I came up with some

[00:03:28:16]	topics. So I thought what are some things that I can do in this amount of

[00:03:32:21]	time, thinking about the constraints as well collecting footage. So I had this camera

[00:03:36:23]	and I was going to go out and lunch, and so I, I think had a list of 5

[00:03:40:26]	I can't remember what they all are at the moment. But then I

[00:03:44:27]	didn't have the time to get the footage that I wanted. However, I

[00:03:49:03]	had prepared in advance, coming with all of my pictures that I've taken

[00:03:53:04]	as well as, you know, footage from my iPhone, and so then I

[00:03:57:07]	it was an issue of, well, I, I have THIS footage so 

[00:04:01:11]	maybe I should start there and then move forward.... But then when I started going 

[00:04:05:13]	through the images, that's kind of when it shifted to

[00:04:09:15]	ok, this is, this is not what I thought it was going to be, and so I think

[00:04:13:17]	that my process was more about the tools, what was there, 

[00:04:17:22]	and then using what I could find and my topic just evolved as I was 

[00:04:21:23]	in iMovie, playing around.

[00:04:25:27]	Laura Michael Brown: I struggled a lot in starting, and I had several ideas

[00:04:30:03]	um, that I really wanted to go, and I was gonna

[00:04:34:04]	to film like a lot of really tiny little pieces. I had this initial idea that I was going to

[00:04:38:07]	film all these things with like people doing things with their hands, and

[00:04:42:09]	it was going to be all these small quick shots, and, but then I didn't know where that was going to go

[00:04:46:13]	I just kind of thought it would look cool [ laughs ] and then I realized 

[00:04:50:14]	like, I didn't have that kind of time to go film that, and then also to go edit it,

[00:04:54:16]	and so I sort of went back and forth, and just trying to figure out what did I actually

[00:04:58:20]	have time to accomplish and figure out what...to sort of be realistic about?

[00:05:02:25]	And so I kind of had to slow myself down a little bit.

[00:05:06:26]	So then I started thinking about, alright what do i already sort of have with me

[00:05:10:28]	So those, like, those restraints that I had actually ended up actually being incredibly 

[00:05:15:02]	productive for me, because I had to think about, what could I get done in this space

[00:05:19:04]	and, I was really happy with sort of the way that it turned out, so....

[00:05:23:04]	[ Associations ] Kaitlin Clinnin: It definitely started from the 

[00:05:27:08]	framework that Scott had given us, you know, just... And then, from 

[00:05:31:12]	there thinking, really not about the concept that I wanted to do, but 

[00:05:35:14]	from the constraints of the project? Being the 60 seconds and how that could 

[00:05:39:17]	provide inspiration for whatever project I decided to do.

[00:05:43:21]	Torsa Ghosal: I was looking at the assignment sheet, which sort of said "You have to talk about

[00:05:47:26]	a concept, in either an interpretative, critical, or 

[00:05:51:28]	reflective manner" and then when I went out with my little 

[00:05:55:29]	camera, I sort of noticed that OSU has lots of 

[00:06:00:03]	buildings where things get reflected, and I started

[00:06:04:04]	thinking about the implications of bringing together the figurative and the literal 

[00:06:08:06]	over there? so what my concept in 60 video essentially did 

[00:06:12:08]	was it led the whole concept of reflection...

[00:06:16:14]	Michelle Cohen: I...can thinking and overthink and overthink and overthink something so I really just 

[00:06:20:15]	needed to start, but I think the way that I started it, um, was

[00:06:24:18]	to think about, you hit play when you start something, so then I started thinking

[00:06:28:22]	about the word play, and I started looking for things that 

[00:06:32:27]	used it, and, in different ways, because I had watched those NPR

[00:06:36:28]	videos that we had started with, and some of them had, you know, a play on words kind of thing

[00:06:40:28]	which is another thing with play, and one of the first clips that I found 

[00:06:45:03]	said "Let's play a game" and so I got hooked on the word game, and because I felt like we had a very limited 

[00:06:49:08]	amount of time, I just started looking for every instance I could find of games. And 

[00:06:53:10]	I was already under way before I had realized that I'd chosen a concept 

[00:06:57:14]	and ran with it. Randy Gonzales: Yes, for the Concept in 60 video

[00:07:01:20]	basically...I...it was easy 

[00:07:05:22]	to close my palate because I let Scott's voice define what I

[00:07:09:25]	did. So, you know, I had this voice, and then it was for me

[00:07:13:29]	to have fun with it. So, just the idea of what can I

[00:07:18:01]	demonstrate, how can I demonstrate multimodality over his voice

[00:07:22:02]	how can I, you know, emphasize what 

[00:07:26:06]	he was trying to get across to us with his voice.... By limiting myself

[00:07:30:10]	to his voice? It actually made it quite easy.

[00:07:34:11]	Um, whereas other people I think struggled...not struggled, but it was hard to tell a story

[00:07:38:14]	I didn't have to tell a story. [ laughs ]

[00:07:42:14]	[ Wandering ] Sara Cooper: With a lot of my

[00:07:46:20]	creative writing that I do, I like to work with 

[00:07:50:21]	existing material, so I'll do...um, poems from found

[00:07:54:23]	texts or things like that, and so, I think, because I was in

[00:07:58:27]	an unfamiliar situation? Kind of my go-to response was, well let me 

[00:08:03:03]	just collect some stuff and then I can figure out what to do with it.

[00:08:07:06]	From there. So, I enjoyed the process of just kind of walking around and getting 

[00:08:11:10]	footage and taking pictures of things and video and audio, then

[00:08:15:16]	kind of, you know, then having something to start with. I don't think

[00:08:19:17]	that was necessarily ideal for then, you know, creating something, there were a lot of gaps

[00:08:23:21]	but...because I didn't really know where to start 

[00:08:27:26]	and because it was new I think I reverted back to a process that I'm familiar

[00:08:31:27]	with, just in a new context. [ Interviewer: It sounds like, searching around

[00:08:35:28]	and kind of seeing what came up when you did a keyword search was a large part of your 

[00:08:40:02]	process for finding materials and kind of shaping that product?

[00:08:44:06]	Alli Hammond: definitely. Definitely. And you know, I often have my students do 

[00:08:48:08]	especially image searches, before they even start trying 

[00:08:52:10]	to put together a thesis. Or even a keyword search. You know? Like, um,

[00:08:56:14]	just look at...you know, try to be inspired by the pictures and see what all these pictures

[00:09:00:19]	add up to, these pieces of a bigger whole. And, um, really

[00:09:04:21]	worked out well for me. Danielle Williams: Um, so I just kind of 

[00:09:08:27]	started finding things that I thought were visually appealing and the Prelinger Archive was 

[00:09:13:02]	just, I mean, there were fascinating old PSAs about "How to Date" and "How to Be A 

[00:09:17:04]	Respectful Gentlemen to Your Lady Friend" and they were just really funny, so 

[00:09:21:06]	I just had fun looking through those things, and I found that to be really generative. Um...

[00:09:25:10]	[ Interviewer: So you felt, like, kind of the material you found just kind of helped you

[00:09:29:12]	what helped you kind of turn a corner and find something to latch onto?]

[00:09:33:14]	Definitely. Yeah. And I think that is kind of a bit of the difficulty you have

[00:09:37:17]	um, so many options, everything that is freely available through these sort of

[00:09:41:21]	various sites is available to you and so where do you even start. Um, and

[00:09:45:23]	I found the archives a very helpful place to start. Christina LaVecchia: I had, kind of ideas 

[00:09:49:26]	for specific kinds of videos I might want to have in there somewhere 

[00:09:54:00]	like, hands gathering apple and putting them into a basket or something, but i quickly realized 

[00:09:58:05]	and one of our facilitators, Trauman, kind of 

[00:10:02:07]	echoed this, as well, when he was giving me advice, that it's really hard to 

[00:10:06:09]	try to find the exact thing you want and stick it in there, and I found

[00:10:10:14]	that what was even more satisfying in a way was to 

[00:10:14:15]	find a video in an archive, or images in an archive, um, 

[00:10:18:18]	that kind of related to a keyword search I did, but kind of...interpreted that idea 

[00:10:22:21]	in a new way, and including those into the composition I was 

[00:10:26:26]	making...made it go in interesting directions that I hadn't anticipated. 

[00:10:30:28]	So, kind of working from what I could find rather than what I could think of?

[00:10:35:01]	Um, kind of became, the, the mode of operation for me.

[00:10:39:05]	Annie McGreevy: ...yeah, it was, it was ducks I believe. I just got some, you know, some footage 

[00:10:43:07]	of ducks and trees and things on campus, and I thought, this is really isn't going anywhere

[00:10:47:08]	um, and, but, I, Oh! I was, and then I was, um

[00:10:51:11]	trying to just, you know, take a picture of a tree, and I put...I had a notebook, and it was a windy day

[00:10:55:14]	and I put my notebook down on the bench and the wind blew it and

[00:10:59:15]	all the pages went like that? And I just, and luckily I got it on camera, and I though, OH, that 

[00:11:03:15]	looks really cool, and then I, I was working in the lab at night and 

[00:11:07:16]	there was no one there the first night, so i was just sitting there until 10 o'clock, you know, watching, I was watching some

[00:11:11:20]	OpDocs on newyorktimes.com and things like that, and I, I thought

[00:11:15:25]	you know, you really like to have, like a, like a research question for these, basically. You need to have

[00:11:19:27]	something behind it... And I really liked that image 

[00:11:23:29]	of the papers going, and then...so it was the mixture of 

[00:11:28:03]	the image of the pages sort of flying and then

[00:11:32:05]	the effect on iMovie where you can make something play backwards?

[00:11:36:06]	I thought that was really neat. So I thought, well, what if, maybe I could do something

[00:11:40:09]	in terms of turning back time...

[00:11:44:10]	Crystal Gorham Doss: So, for me, it was 

[00:11:48:12]	thinking in terms of a series of still images

[00:11:52:14]	I think that's kind of like an outline? It's like, you know, I have these images, and how do I want to

[00:11:56:16]	...develop those and flesh them out and

[00:12:00:20]	make something else of them, in the same way that when I start writing I have 

[00:12:04:21]	this, you know, I kind of have these concepts that may or may not

[00:12:12:29]	as you thought and you're cutting big chunks of them, so in that way I think it was very similar 

[00:12:17:04]	because I started with way more than I needed, and I kind of...

[00:12:21:06]	...then went through this filtering process of deciding what was relevant

[00:12:25:09]	and what wasn't, um, which may be more revision than invention, so

[00:12:29:14]	I don't know if I'm walking around your question, um...

[00:12:33:16]	[ Pause ] And it was different because 

[00:12:37:18]	instead of reading, which is normally what I do for invention? I do a lot of reading

[00:12:41:21]	to kind of get...I didn't do that. I walked around

[00:12:45:27]	and looked at things. [ laughs ] Van E. Hillard: Well, you know, it's funny, I

[00:12:49:29]	um, started thinking a little bit about it before the seminar began and I didn't

[00:12:54:04]	know all of the dimensions...of the task

[00:12:58:09]	Uh... But I noticed that 

[00:13:02:10]	my thinking about it, my 

[00:13:06:13]	mulling it over and trying to...to get started

[00:13:10:17]	was guided by...in the, in a way that 

[00:13:14:20]	is very similar to how I have, to how I think...

[00:13:18:21]	... um, planned and formed my own

[00:13:22:24]	alphabetic work, right? And that was, to

[00:13:26:29]	think of a significant form, that, that 

[00:13:31:00]	then really became the core 

[00:13:35:02]	[ pause ] notion, um for the, for the 

[00:13:39:05]	video itself. But I, That seems to 

[00:13:43:10]	be how my, my own cognitive style is

[00:13:47:12]	really enhanced. I've often

[00:13:51:15]	thought to myself, "I believe in this notion that 

[00:13:55:19]	form finds form. That if we have 

[00:13:59:21]	um, something that Ann Bertoff taught me a long time ago, that, you know, this

[00:14:03:22]	idea, that if we, if we have some, and I'm calling it a significant

[00:14:07:26]	form, that is a generative form in

[00:14:12:00]	mind, it will actually be the seed.

[00:14:16:02]	That will help evolve the rest of it.

[00:14:20:04]	So, I think that in the same way that people sometime begin with

[00:14:24:08]	say, a title, a title for an essay

[00:14:28:13]	a piece of academic work, that is, you know, this

[00:14:32:15]	um, it kind of condenses the key idea 

[00:14:36:17]	um, that's how I work.