professional practice journal

week 9

the last few weeks getting anything to respond to has been tricky. i now include a plea to send anything to respond to, be it a sketch or an idea and even that i can not get a reply to most often. it is now half way through week 9 and i have not got a reply to two emails (address is correct as we have swapped before on this email address) and a facebook message. i have material i could send off as an imaginary response and later fit in, but i will try to get in touch once more.

i have a lot of work to be done yet on some of the earlier responses to get them ready for being put up - the exhibition is in 2 weeks.

the good news is the 16mm film came out great and we did not have any problems we could not overcome. joe gave me a big hand in actually making the film as it is timeconsuming. we spent a total of 7 hours in the film editing lab for the 55 s. film. that was including the first digitising, which was on a harddrive handy-cam and without a tripod. later i spent about the same time digitising it properly (720p using a nikon d3000 dslr and a proper tripod), editing + encoding it for the web and producing the soundtrack. all in all a proper viral type video.

this can now be used as the first bit of material for publicity around the web - we've already distributed it around facebook and intend to send this to different blogs as well.

after all the work is done, we will have to produce the catalogue for the exhibition in a matter of days, which will be testing. also the graphics guys are working on the posters and flyers to distribute ahead of time.

as before, the biggest worry and rush is getting the work done and it does not help to have people not even responding to emails or a simple facebook message.