User:Mattevison

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

Editing a skate video of myself from the pass years of my Skateboarding career.
 * Research Component

I will be researching on a famous skateboarder who was a huge influence on me.
 * week 1

Start uploading and going through my 8+ hours of tapes.
 * week 2

Start to edit my skate video.
 * week 3

Continue to edit.
 * week 4

Continue to edit and make sure everything is the way I want it to be.
 * week 5

Be finish with the skate video and start researching on the skateboarder.
 * week 6

Continue research and start to design presentation.
 * week 7

Finish the essay and be ready to present
 * week 8

Present

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
First of all, I did my essay on Beverly Pepper's sculptor called Persephone Unbound. When I first saw this uncool sculptor, I honestly thought it was worst looking sculptor at that park. At first, I thought it was a stump of a tree that had a rough time growing in Seattle. I was wrong, it was a famous sculptor done by this lady named Beverly Pepper. I got the weirdest feeling that she didn't even like this sculptor. I say that because this sculptor of hers doesn't seem to exist on her own website. I reason why I don't like this sculptor is because it just doesn't make sense, nor look like a piece of art. It simply looks like the tree that wont grow in my backyard. Why even bother creating a sculptor that looks like a dead tree when mother nature could do it on it's self. I am really dumb founded on how uncool this sculptor is, that's if you couldn't already tell. I did a little research on other sculptors that were done by her and I really enjoyed them. The other sculptors done by her actually looked like great masterpieces, just this one didn't. She has some awesome looking sculptors over at the First Interstate Center that woud be interesting to go look at.

Don't get me wrong, she is amazing artist, and very talented at her work. I am just not very fond of her sculptor that is at the sculptor yard. At this point, I don't think I will ever have the heart to like that sculptor of hers. After doing a little research about on it I still don't, although, I am a fan of her other types of work. I really wish that they had a better sculptor done by her at that yard. At least I can head over to the First Interstate Center and go check out her sculptors called The Moline Markers. That should at least be interesting to look at.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
I believe that the Mastercard slogan is a false dilemma. the slogan says-"There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's Mastercard" The line states that Mastercard exist for everything that can be bought.

http://cruelmistress.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/look-whos-not-coming-to-dinner/ http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427311.600-how-green-is-your-pet.html I think this article is a slippery slope. ..

Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report
My project is coming along just fine. I am right on schedule. I think I may even be like a week ahead of the game. Everything thing has been going great with my project. I am about half way done with my skate video. And now for the bad news. I recently switched from a PC to a Mac so a bunch of my video clips are in low quality, due to converting from Windows file to a Quicktime file. Some of audio on my clips didn't quite match up for some odd reason. So there are going to be some clips with out any audio, but who cares, it's just a skate video. Some more bad news. Three of my tapes got ruined while I was trying to upload them to my computer. So, I am guessing that I lost about a minuet of footage. I am just going to have to deal with the footage that I got.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

< >


 * Research (20%)

<>


 * 1) Internet site:"Danny Way Bio." Danny Way Bio. Danny Way. Web. .
 * 2) Book:
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:Transworld skateboarding. Blair Alley, 21 Oct. 2009. Web. 21 Nov. 2009. .


 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc):Youtube. Web. .


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

<> I accomplished my goal, believe it or not. My goal was to put together a skate video of myself with footage that I've been keeping track of since 2004-05. I had about 9 hours of tape that I haven't look at for awhile, so I thought it was about time to do so. The hardest part of my goal probably was the editing. Just because I didn't know were to put some of the clips in the time line at times, a lot of my clips were sync to the music, and I just wanted everything to run smoothly. Everything all came out great, just took longer then I thought it was going to. And I wanted to do this for a long time, and I am glad I got to do it.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well-I thought the process of going though all of my footage went quite well. At some points in the editing stage things went pretty smooth. meaning I didn't have to adjust anything to make the clips work in the time line. which was a big relieve.
 * 2)What went poorly-two things. first, two of my taps got screwed up while I was going through them. which is a bummer because I don't know what I lost, and I probably wont ever know. I figure I probably lost about a good minute of skate footage. So I had to work with what I got. Second thing, is that there is a bunch of old clips that I forgot to transfer from my PC to MAC down in Oregon. There was probably a minute as well lost there too. All this probably happen for a reason, because I probably would have gotten sick of editing myself for six whole minutes, and I am sure that whole class would get bored watching me skate for that long.
 * 3)Future strategies-my strategies for next time is to keep all of my tapes in a box so they wouldn't get damage. And to keep every single clip of me skating on a extra hard drive or something...

Self-Assessment
Thought this class was awesome. I also a great time in this class. It is probably the best class so far while attending the AIS. I've learned a lot of cool things that a typical college student wouldn't have learned. Hands down, best teacher at this school. Everything went well, nothing went wrong. I got to meet some great people though this class. I feel like I am prepared for my further studies at this school. I thought every project I did in this class was totally awesome. Every project had its own little twist of fun to it. Like my goal for the quarter was a very fun project. I can't believe I got a grade for what I like doing. I think the only thing I contributed to the experiences of the students was that I presented them some interesting things thought out the projects I did. I thought this class was a great experiences for a frist time college student. I always thought college was going boring, but this class was nothing like that. Even the other classes I have at this school is fun. Who knows, maybe it depends what kind of college you go to. Overall, I had a awesome time in this class, it was very rad.