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# Charlie McNamara 21-22
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| [cineLab](/6t8nQNOJRnG4kaNfJ9hXDA) | [storyLab](/mvbV_y05Ru2JnyYig2ryqw) | [graphicsLab](/8CstaZbWTL6-3j7tnYo6Fw) |
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Charlie first came to the Learning Lab for a podcasting workshop with her French 30 class and found that the creative environment offerred a unique learning opportunity that she recalls as one of her favorite Harvard experiences so far. When she applied to be a LLUF she noted her excitement to work on resources and help with workshops like this one, as well as anything in the film and video zone.

She quickly began pouring a brilliant amount of energy into her work as a LLUF, and in her first year at the LL, she has produced an impressive amount of prototypes and resources, contributed significantly to a larger accesibility project, and has developed impressive skills in the following tools:

## Tools
* Adobe Premiere
* Final Cut Pro
* Voice & Body
* Microphones
* Adobe Indesign
* Blender
* Adobe Photoshop
* Shorthand
* Buttons

## Projects/Works
### AFVS70: Film Dubbing
This is a project that has worked to make foreign language films accessible for people with visual impariments. Practically speaking, this involves recording the English translation into a voiceover in Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro. It required Charlie to pay attention to the progression of dialogue, tone of voice, and perspective on screen. Using the audio effects in Premiere, some audio was panned left or right or set into the background to match what was appearing on screen. Charlie and Wesley dubbed Jean Vigo's L'Atalante and Agnès Varda's Cléo de 5 à 7, and Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura during the Spring semester.
Read more in the [AFVS70: Film Dubbing project journal](https://hackmd.io/@HVbiPT2QSG-ZrlC3ic1P-A/HJbLmAPZ9)

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### EssentialsLab
Charlie dialed in on two essentialsLab modules in particular: the graphicsLab module and the realityLab module. In threading across the tools and moves of them, she created a capstone project process for an imaginary Gened on Cities: Power in the Built Landscape. For the content, she decided to explore the relationship between the distribution of emergency services and socioeconomic profile of a city. The first task was to create a project proposal in the form of a magazine layout. Using Adobe InDesign, she created this 5 page spread that detailed the research questions, her intended process, potential challenges or limitations, and what she hoped the final product would represent.
This process was as much about learning to navigate InDesign as it was about the thinking process of how she would approach this project. It prompted questions around data sources, which tool to use, and how to most effectively present the information.
The next step was finding sources for her data; She chose to work with London because it was most familiar to her and a lot of information is available with a breakdown by borough. She found average response times for the police and fire services; response times for ambulances weren't available by borough, but she counted the number of ambulance stations each had instead. In terms of building a socioeconomic profile of the city, she found data on poverty, income inequality, child poverty and unemployment.
The final step was to represent this information as a 3D model in blender; she created objects for each borough, whose height was calcuated as an average response time, and each borugh was laid out in a rough geographic translation of the London landscape. This allows a viewer to compare how response times vary from inner to outer London.
Some next directions for this project could be to integrate socioeconomic data and find images to visually represent each borough on the surface of the shapes.

### Lookbooks
[**Lookbook for an LL Yearbook**](https://www.canva.com/design/DAEwlBUmwp8/ajMqjkZXgXfPCug_ej2lFg/view?utm_content=DAEwlBUmwp8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink)
This was the very first learning project Charlie took on. The tool she learned was canva, and she made a prototype of a yearbook lookbook.

**History of Dance on Camera**
For Jessi's Harvard Dance Project work, Charlie researched the history of dance on camera and created a word doc with information on key events in the progression of dance being captured in media. The work included everything from Edward Muybridge's pioneering photographic studies of motion (below) in 1982 to the work of Fred Astaire, as well as Gene Kelley in Singing in the Rain (1962) and more contemporary pieces created in response to the Covid-19 lockdowns.
Also see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15s6GFOxAGFgxoJhmBiMAQLGzwVmISdl01vnImDyl6z0/edit?usp=sharing
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**Image-Geo-Text**
The Image-Geo-Text project looked to explore the settings found in literary works in textual and visual modes. I chose to work with Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, set on Burgh Island in South Devon, UK. Using photoshop, in one example I combined old maps of the island with current satellite imagery, extracts from the text which detailed the journey through the landscape. In another, I merged historic photographs of the hotel with recent photos, integrating the appearance of how the hotel looked when Christie was writing with how it appears today. Within photoshop, this project involved manipulating the scale, perspective and alignment of these images.
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**Shorthand Trial**
Shorthand is a programme that allows you to explore images by scrolling through and highlighting / zooming into different areas. For an Art History class, I created a model presentation on Jean Ingres's Antiochus et Stratonice, including a step by step guide on how to create a presentation and a recorded video walkthrough of what this looks like on screen.
Also see: https://hackmd.io/@HVbiPT2QSG-ZrlC3ic1P-A/SyU9Dy1At

### Smaller Projects:
**A lot of button making... inlcuding "Charlie over Time" series**
I learnt how to make buttons through the *Portraits Over Time* project. this was a great opportunity to become more familiar with the button mkaing process - from cutting paper to the right size to choosing the type of back (magnet/pin/bottle openener) that I wanted my portraits to have. It was also really fun to choose different images that I wanted to represent different stages of my life.
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**French30 Podcasting Workshop**
Alongside Christine, I ran a small interview workshop for students in French30 who were working towards creating interview podcasts. At first, students were definitely a little apprehensive at the thought of an interview so we began with a biref chat about what might make an interview "good" or "bad". Next, the groups split into pairs to devise a mini interview on a subject of their choice - some chose to draft some questions, others went for a more freestyle approach. Once the interview “guest” made their way into the brick room booth, however, all were quick to open up. We had some great mini interviews on everything from best Harvard houses to lego collections and from favourite cuisines to childhood memories.
Also see: https://hackmd.io/@HVbiPT2QSG-ZrlC3ic1P-A/B1ueKObJ5
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**DesignLab reality tv shoot**
In preparation for Jessi's HDP film project, we devised a mock reality tv show episode. Features ranged from "pre" and "post" interviews, the learning and performance of an entire dance routine, and some fun fictional personalities.
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**Expos20: From Homer to Jay-Z workshop on oral traditions**

* https://hackmd.io/@HVbiPT2QSG-ZrlC3ic1P-A/BJA2oysk9
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**Exploring Photoshop through Ilya Kaminsky's *We Lived Happily During the War***
In this project, the main aim was to get to grips with photoshop a little better. I had used the programme in classes previously but not for a few years so was lacking a sense of familiarity.
This was on Friday 25th February, one day after Russian forces forst invaded Ukraine; I had read Ilya Kaminsky's *We Lived Happily During the War* in a news article. Coming from a Ukranian poet, the poem had a particular resonance with the disocmfort everyone was feeling about events that were unfolding across the globe. Meanwhile, the first images of Russian attacks were emerging online - the image of an explosion I chose to use was one of them.
I wanted to combine the deadly attacks in the background with images of comfort in the foreground as the poem describes. I used phptpshop to integrate these images togther, adjusting the lighting and perspective of the scene to fit. I also wanted to include the poem itself, and added in excerpts I'd written onto cards with emphasis on certain lines relevant to the scene I chose to portray.

[**Write up of the designLab on Focal Length**](tyD4yj00T6C-x_zd-qfSIA)