Meeting and other items

Hello everyone. Today we had a short meeting to talk about what we need to present to the class next Thursday, 4/10. We all wanted to apologize also for not keeping you all from the design class updated on our plans. We have just been focused on the first step of this project, which is presenting the websites and other tools to the class next week.

We will have our class time on Tuesdays (1 p.m.) available to meet with everyone to get the project going in the right direction. I know others in our group are not available prior to this time on Tuesdays. If this time does not work for you next Tuesday for our first in-person meeting, we can try something else. Since it is going to be very hard for 7 people all with busy schedules to find a compatible time, we were also talking about getting on a group chat in AIM or some other system of a chat room to make it easier.

Again, we apologize for the delay of working this out. Maybe everyone can post their names and contact info (phone & email) again in a post to make sure we have everyone down.

Thanks,
Gina Dyke

rdyke at mix.wvu.edu
(571) 296-7093

getting together

I suppose we should be getting together sometime. I don't know when you guys have class, so I'm not sure if that would work with me. Our class is from 9:30 to 12:00 (noon) and we can skip class on Tuesday of next week for a meeting, if we want. If this doesn't work for you guys, then I'm free on Mon., Wed., and Fri. after 3:20, and Tuesdays and Thursday I'm done at 4:50, though I do have about an hour and a half break after 12:00, so we could probably squeeze in a meeting then, if it remains brief, so I can get back to the CAC.

I'm starting to get slightly worried because no one else has been posting much. I assume its just because you can talk to each other in class, but it would be nice if you let me and Liz on some of your brainstorming and such so we know where everyone is.

And Amy, if you sent the email to my mix account, I didn't get it. If you sent it to my other address, I haven't checked that recently but will tonight. We just had our Graphic Design portfolio review this morning, so I've been rather busy and haven't even thought about checking my email.

Meeting and favorite websites

I think the idea of our group representing the everyday life of civilians would be interesting. I'm not really sure where we should be starting with this project, but I know we need to figure out which websites we're going to focus on next week in class. I thought the one about Amsterdam Real Time was interesting and also the one for Walkscore.

To talk about the other aspect of the project, when can everyone meet? Of course I have Tuesday's regular classtime free since we don't meet like normal, but I also have tomorrow available after 3 p.m.

Civilians

I like that idea a lot. I would prefer to keep the project in a more stylized and dramatic, as opposed to serious and depressing. And above that, I do not, DO NOT, want any political opinions or bias involved or to shine through in any portrayal of events. The use of civilians in various daily situations may be an interesting way to navigate the fine line of partisanship through world politics. To show the daily life, whether it be mundane or deadly, of a population living in a war zone has endless possibilities. Fun stuff.

My initial idea

After giving it some thought, I like the idea of taking the role of Iraqis (just everyday civilians). The concept I've then come up with for an event is that of a public execution (either a firing squad, beheading, or hanging...all of which would obviously be more stylized since we don't have the resources to make it completely realistic), in which people would just be standing around watching, like it's some form of entertainment. I envision setting up cameras on tripods (as well as having some people filming with handheld cameras) and then having people cheering and such. I don't know where it would happen, most likely in a very public area such as in front of the Mountain Lair. That's all I've got thus far.

Let me know what the rest of you think. I don't even know if any of you want to venture in this direction, but such are the woes of working in a group.

Also, we should probably just start commenting on each others blogs instead of making a hundred different blogs. Just to make it easier.

Better Late Than Never

Yeah, I'm Jon. I'm in the group too, I just forgot about posting. Don't worry though because I've still been thinking about ideas, so there's no lost time in that sense. I guess we will be posting tomorrow about ideas? Might as well.

If you guys need me for any reason, my cell is (304) 216-0499.
You can also email me at jhudak@mix.wvu.edu or superfly07@comcast.net (I check both regularly.)

I think this project is going to go pretty well, and I'm interested on getting to work on it, as well as meeting the rest of the group.

hello

Hi everyone!
I'm Liz, from Gerry's class. Here's my contact info, should you need it:
phone: (928) 221-7045
e-mail: etoler@mix.wvu.edu

From what I read on here, it looks like we're taking the weekend + Monday to think about the project and to try and come up with some ideas...
that sounds good; I'll look over the project for the next few days and do my best to think of some perspectives that we can take.