Hey guys,
The audio for my Eastside pies slideshow is somehow missing so I just have a bunch of pictures and NO sound. I can interview the manager/co-owner over the phone tomorrow night, but I still won't have any nat sound! I can go there on Wednesday or Monday, but is that too late? I have the photos of the signs so I can send them to William or put them in the shares drive.
Sorry!!
Gloria
Monday, November 24, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
almost done
I hope everyone still gets email when someone posts to this thing.
Sorry for being flakey this week. I'm going to work with what I have but if
anyone wants to send me stuff I don't have yet I can put it in for a more
finished-esque project on Tues.
Still need:
Two movies from Kathryn and one from Gloria.
Sign pics for Bossa Nova and East Side Pies.
And a short blurb to go on the movie pages from everyone.
And I know I am liable to be roasted alive for this but what about this for an
alternate design scheme: sort of a night scheme with a navy background and the
title being a pink neon looking thing that lights up every few seconds. Look at
the screenshot if you want.
I just thought our original was boring, but whatever you all think is fine.
Sorry for being flakey this week. I'm going to work with what I have but if
anyone wants to send me stuff I don't have yet I can put it in for a more
finished-esque project on Tues.
Still need:
Two movies from Kathryn and one from Gloria.
Sign pics for Bossa Nova and East Side Pies.
And a short blurb to go on the movie pages from everyone.
And I know I am liable to be roasted alive for this but what about this for an
alternate design scheme: sort of a night scheme with a navy background and the
title being a pink neon looking thing that lights up every few seconds. Look at
the screenshot if you want.
I just thought our original was boring, but whatever you all think is fine.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Website stuff
So we came up with a basic design in class today, and William is taking charge of most of the flash programming. Here are the other things that need to get done, so please sign up for something. We can talk about it more next time we have a class to work on it, but we at least need to be started on these things by next week.
-Flash designing guru guy (William)
-building/shooting intro photo package (Kelly)
-writing copy for the intro and about pages
-finding font/designing logo with the name of the website and links to other pages
-finding relevant links to add to the restaurant pages or about page
-other things I'm forgetting?
Everyone should bring their finished videos to class next week so that we can put them onto one hard drive for William. If anyone knows anything about the best way to export Final Cut Pro files for a flash project that would be helpful as well.
Also, please email me photos of your restaurant's sign (or other interesting details) if you have them. Sized to 72 dpi and 6 inches on the long side. If you don't, let me know so we can figure out when/what to shoot.
Over and out.
-Flash designing guru guy (William)
-building/shooting intro photo package (Kelly)
-writing copy for the intro and about pages
-finding font/designing logo with the name of the website and links to other pages
-finding relevant links to add to the restaurant pages or about page
-other things I'm forgetting?
Everyone should bring their finished videos to class next week so that we can put them onto one hard drive for William. If anyone knows anything about the best way to export Final Cut Pro files for a flash project that would be helpful as well.
Also, please email me photos of your restaurant's sign (or other interesting details) if you have them. Sized to 72 dpi and 6 inches on the long side. If you don't, let me know so we can figure out when/what to shoot.
Over and out.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Website structure
Hey gang,
Let's throw around some ideas on this blog about how we want the website to be designed. I'm thinking we could have an intro page with either a short collection of soundbites from our various interviews, or maybe (I think Kathryn and I talked about this) a time-lapse video of a plate of food getting eaten that just plays in the background, or some other graphic element like that as a backdrop. I still like the idea of an interactive map, though I'm not sure if the restaurants are close together enough to make that feasible. The farthest south is Cesar Chavez and farthest north is 31st I think, so that's about 30 blocks north to south we would have to fit on the page. Any other idea besides the map? Or we could try to divide the videos into categories, but I kind of think they are cohesive enough that they should all live on the same page and link to the individual videos, and maybe to the restaurant's website. Thoughts?
Let's throw around some ideas on this blog about how we want the website to be designed. I'm thinking we could have an intro page with either a short collection of soundbites from our various interviews, or maybe (I think Kathryn and I talked about this) a time-lapse video of a plate of food getting eaten that just plays in the background, or some other graphic element like that as a backdrop. I still like the idea of an interactive map, though I'm not sure if the restaurants are close together enough to make that feasible. The farthest south is Cesar Chavez and farthest north is 31st I think, so that's about 30 blocks north to south we would have to fit on the page. Any other idea besides the map? Or we could try to divide the videos into categories, but I kind of think they are cohesive enough that they should all live on the same page and link to the individual videos, and maybe to the restaurant's website. Thoughts?
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Do not delete - I have something very important to say
Greetings Eastenders,
I'm going tomorrow to the Victory Grill to do some filming. They have a blues and jazz band playing from 8 pm onwards. I already got some footage today but filming the performance might be helpful. There will be some good ol' southern cuisine and of course some really good music. So if anyone is interested in tagging along with me, it would be great. If you would like me to return the favor by accompanying you to your restaurant, I'd be happy to. So let me know if anyone's interested.
I'm going tomorrow to the Victory Grill to do some filming. They have a blues and jazz band playing from 8 pm onwards. I already got some footage today but filming the performance might be helpful. There will be some good ol' southern cuisine and of course some really good music. So if anyone is interested in tagging along with me, it would be great. If you would like me to return the favor by accompanying you to your restaurant, I'd be happy to. So let me know if anyone's interested.
New direction
So here are the restaurant assignments for our revised, re-focused, fantastic new project. Go team.
Ashwini:Victory Grill and Blue Dahlia
Kelly: Ms B's and something on Manor
Gloria: Brizilian place and East Side Pies
William: Casa Columbia and Dan's on Airport
Kathryn: Star Seeds and Nubian Queen
Tina: Juan in a Million and Angie's
Ashwini:Victory Grill and Blue Dahlia
Kelly: Ms B's and something on Manor
Gloria: Brizilian place and East Side Pies
William: Casa Columbia and Dan's on Airport
Kathryn: Star Seeds and Nubian Queen
Tina: Juan in a Million and Angie's
Thursday, October 2, 2008
African American Quality of Life
So I went to a meeting last night for the African American Resource Advisory Commission (for another class) but I talked to the president of the Austin chapter of the NAACP while I was there and got his perspective on the issues facing the east side right now. Just thought I would share.
He sees education as a major issue (citing Johnston being shut down and Pierce possible following), and he also mentioned infrastructure (like not installing sidewalks around new developments which limits people's access). He thinks improvements have been made in arts and culture, but that more could be done to bring black performers/artists to Austin to keep people from going to Dallas and Houston for their entertainment. Check out this report (scroll down to bottom of page and download the PDF of African American Quality of Life Scorecard- http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/aaql/) It has a lot of useful information.
He sees education as a major issue (citing Johnston being shut down and Pierce possible following), and he also mentioned infrastructure (like not installing sidewalks around new developments which limits people's access). He thinks improvements have been made in arts and culture, but that more could be done to bring black performers/artists to Austin to keep people from going to Dallas and Houston for their entertainment. Check out this report (scroll down to bottom of page and download the PDF of African American Quality of Life Scorecard- http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/aaql/) It has a lot of useful information.
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