At first I thought I understood the play… the daughter losses her mother but doesn’t come to reality until she see other peoples funerals. But the story took a really strange turn that I didn’t quite understand… the yelling at each other multiple times, the same thing.

The play was very well put together and I really liked the two way direct portal to the other school. The technology really helped tell the story and play with your emotions.

All in all, I didn’t understand it. But it was good.

http://umaine.edu/news/blog/2013/11/18/umaine-unh-perform-one-play-simultaneously-on-two-stages/

We have a bunch of local networks that we are trying to work with. We created a local sneaker net with posters. We posted them all over campus and put QR codes that link to our facebook page.

We also are creating coasters that we will hand out to local businesses with our website page name and logo.

I was asked by John to get pictures for the estranged play. I searched key terms on google and saved the pictures. I got about 500 pictures and that took about 3 hours.

The pictures worked really good in the play.

The UMOtivators requested that we write on the board – Done

Never got to do anything with Brave New Maine.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMaine-Motivators/188817241307410

My contributions to the team:

Helping get content for the website

Research

Website management

Ideas

Creating the first website mock up

Presented our project for the first time, explaining our ideas and letting people know about how we feel about theirs.
Overall it was a success. There were a few good ideas that we kept in mind.

How do we gain access to locations? (When could the location be used, and who do filmmakers need to contact to gain access?)

– We need to build connections with the owners of each location that is not public domain, and assure that they would be ok with their location being listed. Under each listing, logistics will be given such as availability, contact info, etc.

How do we deal with potentially illegal locations?

– Although the vast majority of locations we post will be completely legal, some illegal locations are so good it is really tempting to post them. However, we should consult with police and local governments to see what liabilities there are. Jeremy Martin, the Bangor code enforcer may be a resource to help us with this.

Disclaimer: our project should not require any research outside of field work, so we right now we don’t have any internet or print resources to look in to.

Kyle Fowlie NMD 200 10/2/13
Title: FilME
Idea/Main Goal: Develop a network of set seekers and owners
Description:
This solution would require some definite planning. The idea would be to develop a web page (or other many-to-many vehicle) that could allow directors of all talents access to normally private areas. Local companies and businesses would offer there ‘set’ for a proper incentive (hopefully just a large area of the credits, or use of there products in the film). Ideally, there would be a rather large selection of parking lots, business locations, farms and structures for students to use (both on and off campus). Owners of the space could post available time slots for film-making and then directors could select a time and be given the owners contact information. Obviously there are some possible dangers to this, so precautions would have to be made to ensure the safety of everyone involved as well as the preservation of the property being used.
Group Members: Jesse Hinnman
Caitlin Trafton Kyle Fowlie Ben Woodbrey Patrick Menard Zach Marvin Zack Davis
Research Questions:
What kinds of film sets do people have?
What kinds of film sets are people looking for? How do we gain access to locations?
Tools:
Video camera
Audio software
HTML/CSS editors
JDK’s (Java development kits) JavaScript
Personal Skills:
Major Milestones:
– Research/Find broad range of film locations
– Visually design the site
– Flesh out design via code
– Ability for people to post locations
– Create intro video using the locations?
– Make site live

http://www.nrcm.org/issue_cleanwaters.asp – Cleaner rivers lead to healthier water, better fishing, and over all cleaner towns. Having a clean river to me is a big deal because where I live (cherryfield), use to have a very dirty river where the blueberry plants would dump blueberry waste into the river and all the wildlife died. That since has changed, but some towns still use their rivers as a dumping site.
Just a small group of locals turned that around and the salmon and fish population is slowly growing back to its origins.

http://www.nrcm.org/issue_penobscot.asp – This kind of stems off my first topic, but more in depth. The penobscot river is one of Maine’s most important rivers and feeds to a lot of other rivers in Maine. Dirty water in the penobscot river could lead to a decline in:
Fish
Lobster
Birds
And possibly even more. Fishing lobster is a big part of Maine culture and if lobster were to move from the ocean of maine, that would put a lot of hard working families out of jobs.