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# MDF MEETING NOTES 20211001

completely online! (and next week will be in person)

## AGENDA

### 1. Clusters & Labs!

[Cluster 1 - Tuesdays 4-5pm](http://whenisgood.net/k5npiz7/results/si2r49y)
=> datavis, mapping, realityLab (AR)
Kangni, Eduarda, Zane, Tica, Taylor, Queenie, Claire, Juhee

[Cluster 2 - Thursdays 4-5pm](http://whenisgood.net/2c9g2tg/results/gayyp34)
=> video essays, podcasts, AV, photography
Eduarda, Wesley, Ignacio, Jessi

[Cluster 3 - Mondays 11am-12pm](http://whenisgood.net/jq4ejmw/results/zqgw7rf)
=> graphics, visual explanation, illustration, drawing, graphic design, posters
Xiaomeng, Queenie, Eduarda, Zane, Claire

### GROUP 1 NOTES

* Zane is working on DataVis lab
* front end development
* data vis intro
* Taylor: mapLab
* 4-5 workshops or resource packs leading up to a capstone project
* thinking about programs students could use
* GIS
* workshops vs online resources?
* other options
* Kangni:
* develop bare bones database for illustrations to chinese novels
* students can draw on these for final projects
* Airtable potentially
* how do we collect the data?
* interested in all kinds of dataVis and mapping tools that students can use in humanities classes
* visualizing space in a novel
* Tica
* AR Tools anyone can use:
* [Unity MARS](https://unity.com/products/unity-mars)
* ripping 3d models from Google
* build a workflow
* students can explore the environment at a high level initially
* then jump into AR to jump into the data
*

#### collective project?
- a resourceBase for ways of visualizing data and visualization?
- compare and contrast tools for mapping and datavis and telling datastories, beginner AR
- would this maybe be "the basics?"
- what types are there beyond the basic quantitative tables and graphs that students are used to already
- would this be "beyond the basics" then?
- what are the OTHER possibilities?
- to represent quantitative data in a research context
- spatial representation of data
- interacting with data, seeing in many ways
- how to visualize narrative
- interested in annotations?

### GROUP 2 NOTES
* Jessi's work in theatreLab is definitely feeding ideas into Cluster 2
* Eduarda is curious to learn this material!
* Turning your essay in a script, writing stage directions - how you adapt a novel into a play or movie.
* Wants to create a video essay for her capstone presentation.
* Using story arcs / story shapes.
* Eduarda's projects
* She is working on a course about Brazilian Cinema
* Students have to work on making videos. Students have to write a critical essay about traditions in Brazilian Cinema, then illustrate and add VO to make it into an essay film.
* For their final, students will be making a short film.
* How to integrate visual art and video making with complex theories, a video project that's been in the works since 2014.
* Other projects in this realm:
* Wesley - The Essay Film in AFVS, The Art of Film course with Laura Frahm
* Eduarda is curious if these will be available to use in Portug40
* (might also be good to schedule a workshop)
* Ignacio - Working on podcasting in Spanish courses
* French 30 - Podcasting
* French 40 - Video essays
* SCRB111 - Explainer videos
* AMST201 - Academic conference of the future, presenting a conference paper
* ANE197 - Podcasting

### GROUP 3 NOTES
meets on Mondays 11-12, in person at the studio!

##### the people
* Queenie.
* Xiaomeng. writer for Science in the News blog + creates illustration for her pieces.

##### the tools
* **procreate**. for general audience, easy to use
* **illustrator**. more professional for a scientific community. uses vectors, not drawing.
* **photoshop**.
* **fresco**.
* **ipad**. for drawing directly
* **lap top**. more memory than ipad
* **wacom.** drawing pad
* **clipstudio.** drawing software similar to photoshop

##### the projects
* graphical abstracts for faculty/researchers
* explainer graphics for courses
* graphical abstract assignments for students
* explainer video assignments for students
* explainer animation (Ae) for courses

##### challenges
you need to understand the material REALLY WELL before you can successfully illustrate it.

##### the process/method
begin by collecting references/models. create a draft that has more info and then you can work on simplifying more and more. use layers to reiterate.

**We want a place to agregate the work that's being done in this area to avoid duplication of work.**

### 2. [Sign up for Show and Tell (and Teach)](https://hackmd.io/cLEYB_NjRF6GJ6s_GzndsQ)