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Visionista by the Moonlight (AKA Director): Desiree Williams-Rajee

You can use the picture of me with the brown hat that you have already. I actually don't have many nice pictures of myself.


Students:
Gabrielle Sims
Jennifer Tam
Kim Powe
Manan Shukla
Mauri Parks
Michelle DePasse
Mona Das
Patty Liu
Shevanthi Daniel

Special thank you for your support:
Gifford Pinchot III
Barrett Anderson
Christopher Allen

BGI Diversity Questions

Please use the Call widget below to record your answers to these questions.

1. Tell me a little about yourself (most started with their name, then talked a little bit about their story, what they do, cultural background, where they live, etc.)
2. What attracted you to BGI?
3. Why is diversity important for a business school to address?
4. What are your hopes and dreams for diversity at BGI?
5. What do you plan on doing with your degree from BGI?
6. What was your reaction when you found out that orientation was in the middle of the woods? (it's a random question)
7. Feel free to add on any other thoughts or comments that you think might be relevant to the topic.






Skype!

BGI Graphics Video - Version one

Quotes

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein

“You must be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi

Progress...

Hey Team,

I hope everyone is well.  I am just checking in to see how you guys are doing and what I can do to help and support each of you.

The main things I see us working on now are the following:

• Complete organizing all video content into clips for use (Desiree & Allen)
• The more organized the better (i.e. with notes on the time, content, what section you'd use it for, etc.)
• This is loooong work.  :)  Do you guys need help?  Do you want to assign a video or two to me?
• Create slideshow montage video (Justin)
  
• Do you have everything you need for this?  Is this potentially arduous and complicated task clear?
• It seems like there may not be enough pictures to successfully fill these three 45 sec segments?  What do you think?  There are other options (i.e. shorter segments, using more video, etc.).  Call me if you want to talk about this.
  
• Create video first cut based on timings from walkthrough (Desiree & Allen)
• Sounds like you guys will be digging into this on Sunday afternoon.  Is that right?
  
• Besides Justin's montage footage, is there anything else you'll need from us for that?
• Music placement (Zack)
  
• I'm chopping the music up on a multi-track sound editor, preparing it to be easily moved, lengthened, shortened, to match the timing of our video.
• I'll be able to start putting things into place as soon as I have the video (perhaps Sunday night? :))

I know this is a lot of work in a very tight timeframe for some already busy people.  If you are struggling with any part of this, want to adjust the plans, or simply talk strategy please give me a call.

It looks like we won't be able to meet until sometime Sunday (still waiting for Allen's meeting wizard response).  But I will make myself readily available by phone/text/email the whole weekend.

This certainly is a big, hectic push for this project, but if we can charge through it now, we can meet Gifford's crazy deadline and emerge looking at some smooth sailing to close it out during the next couple weeks.

Onward ho! :)

- Zack

KEEP IT MOVIN'!

Hey BGI Div-Vid Team!

I've posted in the Dropbox our Monday meeting notes and the revised storyboard doc with timings on it.  The meeting notes' "tasks" section is pasted below.

Sorry for the delay, unfortunately I was dependent upon the Elluminate recording for our notes, but the audio was on Skype (duh!).  So I may have left out a lot of stuff, please post anything critical that I might have forgotten or gotten incorrect.

Here's the basic process rundown of what we are trying to do this week to meet Gifford deadline.  ITS A LOT, so we need to really be on it:

1. Organize video content and notes
    a. Van Jones DVDs and remaining interviews
2. Organize pictures in Dropbox
3. Justin to create slideshow montage video
4. Desiree and Allen to create video generally based on timings from walkthrough, using Justin’s slideshow montage
    a. Do not worry too much about matching the music timing.  Can be done without music at this stage
5. Zack to help place the music and adjust it so the timing of things works out right
6. Go back and make necessary video edits and adjustments resulting from music placement
7. Rough cut for Gifford by Monday

Let's get movin'!!!!

- Zack

 TASKS
1. Desiree or Allen to get Van Jones commencement video from Mickey Lee
2. Desiree and Allen to finish going through the videos (interviews and Van Jones pieces)
3. Everyone help organize photos on Dropbox
    a. Can be placed in “Great Pics” folder on the Dropbox
    b. Optionally also placed in the “Studious” or “Fun” sub-folders
4. Allen to cut videos down into the times Desiree and Allen had specifically listed
    a. Storing the originals on his computer, clearing out some space on the Dropbox
5. Justin to make the photo montage/slideshow video and post on Dropbox
    a. Somewhat matching the rhythm of the slideshow to the music
6. Desiree and Allen pull together first draft of video using sections of Justin’s photo slideshow to place in video along with suitable audio clips
7. Zack to help place the music and adjust it so the timing of things works out right
8. Zack to provide revised storyboard doc with updated times placed on it.
9. Zack to send out meeting wizard to settle on time for Friday, Saturday, or Sunday meetings
10. Everyone respond to the Meeting Wizard sent by Zack

Time Coding update

Hi All,
I didn't really get anything done last night as I'd hoped. Laya has come down with something (not the flu) and spent most of the night up and down with her. Allen, there's still plenty of footage to cut. What time were you going to be there today? Let me know if you are planning on going back to the studio another time this week as well. I can work on doing the coding again tonight. Another option would be if someone else wanted to take a stab at it. I'm sending myself the excel file so I can at least organize the segments for the storyboard at work. I'll send that to you later.

Audio Recordings of Vision Statement

We did not discuss this on the call just now...but I had a thought. Zack-if you have the technology to record people on a phone call, maybe you could circulate the folks who have been recorded, and others to get their voices on the DSJ vision statement. That way we could begin to collect audio for that segment this week. It would be nice to get more male voices
This is my suggested list of folks:
Manan Shukla*
Stan Brown
Caroline James
Shivanthi*
Mona Das*
Jennifer Kue*
Patty Lu*
Gene Lee
Sally Johnson
Aaron Varney
Jinn Brunk
Frances Walker
Patrick Torres
Gabrielle Sims
Mauri*
Kim--is already recorded*
Michelle Depasse*
Justin Tilson
Ryan Brown
Justin Fenwick
Any of us
Anyone else we know with a nice voice?
* video taken

Desiree

Gifford called me...

He needs a rough cut in one week to send to the potential donor. He is ok with something rough, just wants something to put faces and stories to it all. Doesn't need music, doesn't need a lot of editing. Let's talk tonight how we can make this happen.

World Heritage Alliance - Graphic Example

I found a GREAT song...

But i need to figure out how to get it to you guys. It's from the Movie Greencard, composer is Hans Zimmer. Song is called Greenhouse. Why I like this song: good crescendos, optimistic, and there are 3 distinct decrescendos as well which would be great for the video montages. It's 3m14s long.

Tasks and Notes from 11/13

Hey Team,
Below are the tasks from our meeting yesterday.  The full notes are available in the Dropbox "Meeting Notes" folder.  I know the temptation is to only look at the tasks but the notes are also worth reviewing as we discussed a lot of relevant stuff.

OK.  We meet again on Monday at 8:00pm via Skype.  See you then!!
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TASKS

1. Desiree will follow up with Kim regarding video
2. Justin will follow up with Caroline regarding video
3. Zack to call Stan and record the call (Justin to pass on info/email)
4. Allen to check on whether Ann has the Van Jones Commencement video
5. Allen will send a link to another Van Jones talk from Oakland
6. Allen will work with Ann to get a low-res version of the videos to review on Sunday with Desiree
7. Allen to follow-up to get video from Michelle
8. Desiree to connect with Kim Powe for video
9. Justin will talk to Sarah Stiltner(?) & Kris Vandevort to try to get more Pine pictures
10. Desiree will send pics of herself
11. Zack add music to the project plan
12. Desiree and Allen to go through videos to make notes of what good quotes we have on Sunday
13. Zack to post QT Notetaker link on the blog
14. Allen still needs to get set up in Dropbox
15. Justin to set up so updates to the blog will trigger email notices to everyone
16. Zack to send out team contact list
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Quicktime Notetaker

Hey Team,

Here is the link to the software I mentioned to you all, Quicktime Notetaker.
http://www.dvcreators.net/qt-movie-notetaker/

Yes, it's old (2006), its buggy (just ignore the error messages), but it's free, works on Mac and Windows, and is simply a really great tool.

It allows you to listen and make notes, and the notes automatically set timestamps for your notes, which are hyperlinked back to that part of video.  It has god keyboard shortcuts for going back and forward 5 secs and other things.

Just remember to save often, not only because its buggy, but you cannot save your session it only saves a text file or your work.

Let me know if you have any trouble with it, or run across a better tool out there.

- Zack

FireFox Addin

Easy YouTube Video Downloader 1.8 <-- for using any existing YouTube Video for our video.. Just found it and thought I would share it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10137

Email Broadcast

Hey Team,

I have set up the blog to email everyone when something is posted on here. I hope that helps!

Justin

Cirque du Soleil's Norweg

Bang Zoom

Bang Zoom :

I'm here.

test post

Test post from Allen

First Post

Testing