Grace Love of NYC

Wow, Senior Project is really coming to an end. Today is our second-to-last day, so we wrapped everything up---literally. Starting off the day, my group headed off to Blick, again, to buy some wrapping paper and tape. After coming back and putting in our final touches, we wrapped up our huge poster to bring all the way back to Proctor tomorrow. At the beginning of the project, I've always been concerned about how we were going to bring such a big piece of art back to campus. I'm so relieved now that we've resolved the issue and have a solid plan for tomorrow. We also spent time working on more adjustments for the documentary, as well as working on our self-evaluation essays.  Total work hours: 3hrs Total accumulated hours: 87hrs

     For this past week, our goal was to make significant progress and finish up our poster and documentary based on the interview clips we gathered from the first week. After a whole lot of ups and downs, we have finally met our goal and are satisfied with our products.  For most of the week, we spent time at home doing a lot of tedious and repetitive work on our poster and documentary. We split the jobs up based on our skill sets: Jack editing the documentary and Claire and I working on the art for the poster. Claire and I spent a lot of time sketching, painting, and gluing. Our idea for the poster was for it to be a representation or summary of our documentary. We would pick out a few of our favorite stories, sketch the interviewee, and write a short paragraph in their voice about their narrative. Claire and I have different sketching styles, so I was worried that the resulting product would be inconsistent. However, though we could see the different styles, the...

These last few days of our project are not very eventful as we are just doing tedious and meticulous work with our documentary and poster at home. Starting off the day, my group edited the documentary together. We all sat around the computer to contribute our input. We also spent a lot of time researching other interview clips on Youtube for ideas and references. We also made a lot of progress on our poster by gluing on stories and painting on details. I also began writing my blog, weekly reflection, and final essay for the project. For the next two days, we will focus on finishing and adding in final touches to our two products as well as finishing our essays.  Total work hours: 8.5hrs Total accumulative hours: 84hrs

 Getting closer to the end of Senior Project, our products are finally coming together. In the morning, my group had a final meeting to go through all of our interview clips and decide on which clips make the cut and a final storyline for our documentary. For the past few days, we struggled with poor organization as we didn't have a common vision for our products, especially the documentary. We had a few arguments over the past few days and that took a lot of our time. After spending the entire morning on the meeting, we finally came to a final common vision that everyone agreed with to avoid any future confusion and arguments. We also decided to make adjustments to which interviews make the cut, resulting in Jack having to make adjustments to the documentary, and Claire and I had to re-do some of our sketches and narratives. So, that took the rest of our afternoon---poster work and documentary editing.  Total work hours: 8.5hrs Total accumulative hours: 75.5hrs

Today, my group started working at home. Claire and I continued to work on our poster. Since we finished typing narratives yesterday on a Google Doc, we handwrote the paragraphs on paper today. We know that writing can be messy, so, to ensure that the final product is nice and neat, we had to copy down everything in pencil first, and then go over it with pen. This took the most time out of our morning. While I was doing the writing, Claire cut out or sketches to prepare for them to be put on the poster and made name tags for our interviewees. Jack told us that he thinks we should go out to interview more as he doesn't think we have enough options to make our storyline as interesting as possible. So, that's how we spent our afternoon. After a productive afternoon interviewing and the Brooklyn Bridge Park, we went to Blick again to buy glue. Coming back home, we did some more gluing, and called it a day.  Total hours: 8.5hrs Total accumulative hours: 67hrs

 Today, Claire and I continued to make progress on the poster while Jack worked on editing our documentary. From my reflection, I mentioned that the gluing job we did on the poster was not done well, and so we have to try again this week. Claire and I ripped the old paper we had on the canvas off, and went to Blick to buy new paper. At the art store, we were contemplating two options: buy the same paper again that we really liked but is harder to work with, or buy paper that is easier to work with but we don't like that much. After scrambling back and forth in the maze of an art store, we decided to go with the same paper we had before and be more meticulous with gluing. We headed home and Claire and I instantly got to work. Gluing on the new paper took a lot of our time because we had to brush on even layers of glue and wait for them to dry. After that, we had to pause the gluing because we ran out of glue. Claire and I then rewatched our chosen interview clips to write paragraphs...