http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20 Media Studies Documentation Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:31:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I can't believe Mediaworks is over (except for the screening)!  Last weekend, I reorganized my whole project, and added lots of sound effects, mostly collected from freesounds.org. During Clearing My Mind I added car, camel, chewing, popping, and ocean noises. I also re-recorded most of the ukulele and breathing sounds. I got ... http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20/2009/06/07/the-last-week-109/ It's halfway through week nine, and a lot has been accomplished. Monday and Tuesday (the 18th and 19th of May) I finished shooting. I shot transitions, the end of the colored conscience scene,  and the end of a balanced world (the stars come out!). Thursday morning I worked in the ... http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20/2009/05/27/a-terribly-late-update-week-8/ Well, I didn't get all my shooting done this week as I had hoped (scheduling issues), but I did get the majority of it done. Monday I filmed the weeping shot in the "balanced world". Tuesday I checked in with Laurie and then shot for six hours and almost finished ... http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20/2009/05/18/week-seven/ So I'm a little late on this post- busy days... ya know.  I haven't had much time for reading, but I have read a little of The Secret of the Golden Flower, which is the basic guide for Buddhists and Taoists. The Golden flower symbolizes the opening of the light of ... http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20/2009/05/13/week-6/ This week I had two shoots: one on Monday night and one on Wednesday night. Monday I shot the next five seconds of my hand-drawn scene, and Wednesday I shot the first part of my first cut-out scene, moving my cut-out fragments of paper millimeters at a time across the ... http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20/2009/05/06/week-five/ This week I have continued to read essays in existentialism. The essay I am currently reading discusses the differences between psychology and phenomenology; psychology is the study of facts about emotions and the human psyche, whereas phenomenology is the study and reflection on consciousness and the phenomena within. Phenomenology simply ... http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20/2009/04/26/week-four/ To start this third week of the quarter Laurie and I had a conference on Tuesday and decided on various changes to make to my proposal packet. That afternoon I made the changes, which involved adding detailed work hours every day to my schedule, upping some of the amounts on ... http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20/2009/04/19/week-3/ This week I was very distracted by the first real spring weather (as I'm sure everyone else was) but I did manage to accomplish a fair amount. Monday I finished the rough drafts for my proposal, schedule, budget and bibliography, and Tuesday I had a Skype conference with Laurie, Belinda, ... http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20/2009/04/14/week-2-a-late-update/ [caption id="attachment_14" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Shooting commercials for Televasion"][/caption] This week I have started reading The Animation Book by Kit Laybourne to begin learning the very basics in 2D animation. To start, I am reading about production planning, necessary tools, storyboarding, basic exercises, and the history of animation. I am also beginning ... http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rusloi20/2009/04/02/week-1/