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Film Project for Comm Lab 2009

Saturday, Dec 19th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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On a really nice day this fall, my Comm Lab team and I made a video.

Final: Communications Lab, “A Self-Packing Suitcase”

Thursday, Dec 10th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Self-packing suitcase from Allison Walker on Vimeo.
Due to a time constraint, I chose stop-motion animation as my final project. With a day or so before a trip to London, I took out a camera and made this film. I really liked working with fabric for stop-motion. It’s a lot easier to move around, but it [...]

Still thinking about changing my final project idea: interactive plant vs blinky lights?

Tuesday, Nov 24th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 1 Comments
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A discussion Monday night got me thinking about my Phys comp final again. I like the bionic gardening, but I also want something really fun. The other student I was talking with was trying to convince me to do my original-ish LED light board idea. So, at home I thought about it a little bit [...]

Comm Lab: Audio/Sound Editing

Monday, Oct 26th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Last week or the week before, I recorded some random sounds. I live in a basement, which helped me get sound clips free of unwanted noise.
Some sounds I collected were:

A tape measure.
A jar of peanuts.
A pill bottle.
A water bottle.
A discussion between my roommates and I.
A hallway with an [...]

My (relatively short) response on Understanding Media, by Marshall McLuhan

Wednesday, Oct 21st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Text: “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition”, by Marshall McLuhan, 2003.
In Chapter One, McLuhan points out that modern media focuses on action more than the content of the communication message. He brings up “somnambulism”, or sleepwalking, which in the context of how it’s used – i.e., “Apple pie is neither good nor [...]

Microphones

Wednesday, Oct 14th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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We were discussing microphones in Communications Lab today, and I saw one that looked a lot like a microphone I’d seen on the TV show “How It’s Made”.
Thought I’d share the YouTube link.

Comm Lab: Stop Motion Animation

Wednesday, Oct 14th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 1 Comments
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This week I worked with two other students, Noah Waxman and Macaulay Campbell, to create a short stop motion, animated film. When we added the sounds, it definitely became pretty ridiculous. We used a whiteboard to create our animations; it was a lot easier to work with than physical objects. Plus, our illustrator stole my [...]

Communications Lab - Sequential Images

Wednesday, Oct 7th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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This week I worked with another student to create story from a series of sequential images — see Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud.
The story we created starts in a zoo and ends in a cemetery, but I won’t go into the details because the story is (hopefully) self-explanatory.
For the production, we first thought we’d try [...]

Communications Lab: Week 5 — Response to “Understanding Comics”

Wednesday, Oct 7th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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Chapters 1 and 2 were interesting summarizations of psychological patterns, as well as introducing the idea of simple, yet complex, design.
In Chapter 3, I found interesting the discussion on the Visual Iconography of comics. That is, visual iconography is used by comics as its “vocabulary”. Closure, as used in the “gutters”, or spaces between panels, [...]

Communications Lab: Week 4 — Response to “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

Monday, Sep 28th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
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I’ll start off by saying that I’m not sure why in the Preface Walter Benjamin makes a reference to Fascism. The early political reference gets me thinking that this is a political essay, rather than an essay about the changing nature of the relationship between art and audience.
In part I, Benjamin writes about the reproduction [...]

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