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title: MDF May 19 Welcome Event Design

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# MDF May 19 Welcome Event Design

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## details

when: Thursday 5/19, 4-5pm

how many/who?
**21 Yes (including staff):**

*new cohort*
Andreja Siliunas
Carly Yingst (peanut allergy)
Elitza Koeva (vegetarian/pescatarian)
Emily Rivard (strawberry allergy)
Malcolm Morano
Sarah Eisen
Shanni Zhao
Queenie Luo

*returning folks*
Xiaomeng Han
Jessi Stegall
Zane Wolf
Kevin Holden
Ignacio

*staff*
Christine
Jordan
Marlon
Dani
Pamela
Tamara
Laura
Rebecca (maybe)

**4 haven't heard from**
Celia Eckert
Chris Benham
Nace Zavrl
Siriana Lundgren


## learning objectives
- have food
- talk to each other
- get a sense of the space and where things are a bit


## possible mechanics

- Bok introductions (10 mins)
- looping media on screens of past projects
    - needs sourcing and editing
- some sort of activity? how much time?
- introductions? as MDFs? as scholars?
- show and tells from this years' people?
- green screen
    - the dani name drop
        - set design for presentation
    - full body introduction presentation 
        - with partners (2 and 2?)
        - one for a small group?
        - with deliberate randomization or complication?
    - full body buttons
    - tennis table key paper 2x2 (locate yourself on an XY grid?)
        - moving people around on the grid with ATEM?
    - compare and contrast through 2-up using key 2
    - layering of keys to achieve reveal effect
    - design an introductory tableau
    - album cover
    - design your name on paper?
    - using miniatures as key layer from 70-200 or 100mm
    - imitating (literally or more figuratively) some ad or other piece of media? 
    - some meme-ish like thing?
    - compose two contrasting shots and they inhabit them or perform in them?
- stations
- small group sharing
- personality quizzes
- secretly shared property activity ()
- most unlikely thing in common (plus presentation)
- mdf swag bag - cards and a brush pen, special button?
- badging mechanic - get badges at each station
- if there are prompts, they should be prompting folks to share about themselves to they can get to know each other
- (good) constraint that the the "lesson instructions" should be a part of the activity (?) 
- petting zoo, maybe between 5-7 spaces/activities (must pet at least 3 animals before you leave):
    - full body green screen with main table
    - mic taste testing and Logic
    - two shots compare/contrast (Jessi?)
    - paper stuff (buttons, making boxes)
        - could be collecting small button badges that would fit on large name badges that we pre-make
    - 3D modeling with clay
    - video explainer station
    - Procreate/illustration/animation area (Xiaomeng?)
    - musicLab?
    - datavis activity (everyone visualize the no. 23)
    - games station (key theories as set pieces; types of works you do in different zones - hearth, workbench, etc.)
* determine who (staff+past MDFs) will be at each station

## narrowed down list - 

At each station, you'll introduce yourself!

1. set design/projected images 2D/3D paper backdrops (at table 1)
    - making things out of paper and working with JK
3. full body green screen (green screen area)
4. mic taste testing/music lab (music room)
5. games and game mechanics (coffee table)
    - meta thing where JK makes the map or passport?
    - theatre zone - Jessi could be here?
6. datavis and illustrations (digital imaging station)
    - nancy duarte (?) thing OR datavis activity (everyone visualize the no. 23) 
    - in greenscreen zone? separate table?
    - Xiaomeng drawing in an app that shows up in keying; if she draws on green than we can key that and she'd be drawing on the stage, e.g.
7. analysis of images and films/annotations (at table 2)

## narrowed down list 2 - 

1. tactile zone: making things out of paper and working with JK (accent the tactile pleasures of paper, magnets, etc)
2. visual zone: digital imaging station (Xiaomeng or someone draws in an app that shows up w/keying; analysis of images w/annotations)
    - you can capture people on screen w/cameras
    - with green paper cut out we reveal what camera can see
    - or films that exist on a computer, we can see these
    - a person on stage can interact with all of these things, including tools that you'd be using in teaching (Illustrator, e.g.) (Full Body Green Screening)
    - camera w/long lenses that can be in 2 up view
3. audio zone: mic taste testing in music room w/Daniel and Dezhawn
4. food zone



### or sense based

**seeing:** greenscreen, cameras, images
**hearing:** microphones, music
**touching:** paper, buttons, magnets
**smelling and tasting:** food

**interacting:** game mechanics

The content today is you. Your names, your histories, your work as a teacher and scholar---anything you think people might be interested in.

But we'll play with some of the many tools we have in the LL Studio to help you and your students communicate.


## space set up
- think through most constraining thing and go from there (ie. the green screen)
- populate music room with tuned and ready instruments
- tables


## list of requested tools
- Andreja Siliunas
    - visual data
    - including big data approaches?
    - video manipulation
    - visual arguments
- Anna Ivanov
    - data science, digital humanities
    - help Julie B with her virtual galleries?
    - strong digital humanities background
    - maybe VR and games
    - also instructional design and pedagogy/theory
- Carly Yingst 
    - maybe mindich connection?
    - AV editing, presenting to public
    - illustration
- Elitza Koeva 
    - sculpture/installation
    - performance
    - graphic design - adobe comfort
    - ar/vr
    - video editing
    - podcasting/sound design
    - camera a record of viewing--20 shots one object
- Emily Rivard
    - sci comm, including podcasts but let's try for more
    - excited about oral presentation skills
- Malcolm Morano
    - video
    - game design/philosophy games
    - ethics and CS
- Sarah Eisen
    - skills in object-based teaching
    - knows photoshop
    - excited about VR/AR
    - wants to learn more in-depth skills related to image, video, and perhaps even sound editing in Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.
- Shanni Zhao
    - data vis (Nvivo, Piktochart)
    - timelines - interactive and multimedia
    - animations
    - game design + board games
    - online gallery
    - data vis
    - graphical abstracts



## notes

### on ATEM and keying


- Key 3 = the stage MINUS green
- Key 2 = maybe a preconfigured key made from two green frames (sometimes this is on table 2, but for Thursday maybe we can just use a still? or just table 1?)
- Key 1 = the main table MINUS green
- bottom layer = the main source we initially see (cam 5, say, where we see ourselves, or cam 8, where we see the computer)
    - when presenting about something on the computer, this is cam 8
    - when wanting to show performing, this is cam 5
    - when wanting to show multiple camera angles, this is SS1 or SS2 (supersource)