Sound Slides Project

We plan on interviewing Dorian for our sound-slide-project. Dorian is a professor who draws student’s portraits and displays them in the theater lobby. He and his sketches are a well-known fixture at Lyndon State. Many students and have been the subject of his art. It is our understanding is that he has been at the college for many years and therefor would have plenty to say. For images we would photograph the portraits, parts of his process (easels, pencils, clipboards etc.) and if possible, Dorian sketching. We would like to record some nat sound of shuffling papers, pencil on paper, and other art preparations. Of course our main sound will be the interview. We our most interested in his process. How does he choose his subjects? What his favorite part of sketching? What about his other work? Does he work with other mediums? How did he begin sketching portraits and why does he continue? We also hope to get sounds bytes about interesting stories over the years. Who are some of his favorite subjects? The most rewarding experiences he has had with his art? Of course for all this to happen we first need to find him but once we do it should be all down hill from there.

Slideshow Critiques

In this slideshow audio is used. The beginning did not have sound and the pictures were not very interesting so the start of it is pretty boring but if you get through the first part the rest becomes interesting. The middle is Van Gogh talking about the house that he lived in for a short period of time and it was interesting because at the same someone was talking about the house as they were touring it. I would have to say that if this story didn't have an audio I would have not finished watching it.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/audioslideshow/2014/may/02/van-gogh-london-house-artangel-audio-slideshow

I found a gallery that was about a NFL game. These pictures were self explanatory and did not need audio with them.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-sternoff/29-great-lytro-illum-pict_b_5713193.html

I did not find a slideshow with no audio, just more photo galleries that were put into slide shows.

Press Releases

To show the press releases that we get in one week we decided to use a word cloud. In the cloud you can see what the different violations people do. You can also see the age of people and the different towns that these people did the violations in. It was interesting to find out that younger people were the ones that had the most violations. It was also interesting to see that there was a girl from my hometown that was trafficking heroin. But the thing was there was also another person in the same week trafficking heroin. I was not surprised to see that DUI's were the highest crime rate. I was surprised to see that there was over twenty DUI's in one week. I like using word cloud because it is an easy way to visualize what words occurs the most. This is how you can figure out what crime is more likely, which towns have a higher crime rate and the age of the person committing the crime. The problem that I did have with the word cloud is that it would not show one important word, male. There were twenty three males that committed a crime in the past week that showed up in our press releases but even after writing that word in that many times it did not show up in the cloud. It showed female though, which did not make sense to me because there were many less females that committed crimes. I think that word cloud is useful when it comes to trying to figure out press releases. It would have taken much more work and much more time to try to use a pie chart or bar graph to visualize the information. Below is the link to bring you to the word cloud.

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/8229250/Press_Releases_