Saturday, May 14, 2005
Day 1 of art camp very good
The first day of the art camp went very well.
Nine children arrived, and we may receive a few more for day 2. In the first drawing exercises, "draw your family," and "draw what you want to be when you grow up." The children typically drew small families, some fathers were in business-dress clothing and many girls mentioned they liked wearing pants. Two children wanted to be an astronaut, others wanted to be doctors, engineers, scientists, a fashion designer, cartoonist, houseboat owner, tennis or soccer player and more.
Here is a picture where they were working on painting their Marionettes (puppets) they will use to tell stories to us with at the last day.
I shot video on the tripod and steadycam I built earlier. At first I was really not satisfied with how the video composition was going: the room is dark and echo-y, my camera doesn't have a white balance to fix the fluorescent lights erie glow, fans were windy on the microphone, and Jillian's voice was hard to pick up. Soon it got better though.
Content made the video shooting much better. I started moving around with the steadycam (see www.steadycam.org for what this cool thing is), and I was able to focus in on each child when they shared their first drawings with the class.
It got much better than that and you'll just have to wait and see the pictures and DVD when we get it out.
We're planning to put up pictures soon, as soon as I can get my laptop plugged into a network port to send them to hello.com (the great picture hosting service affiliated with blogger).
Nine children arrived, and we may receive a few more for day 2. In the first drawing exercises, "draw your family," and "draw what you want to be when you grow up." The children typically drew small families, some fathers were in business-dress clothing and many girls mentioned they liked wearing pants. Two children wanted to be an astronaut, others wanted to be doctors, engineers, scientists, a fashion designer, cartoonist, houseboat owner, tennis or soccer player and more.
Here is a picture where they were working on painting their Marionettes (puppets) they will use to tell stories to us with at the last day.
I shot video on the tripod and steadycam I built earlier. At first I was really not satisfied with how the video composition was going: the room is dark and echo-y, my camera doesn't have a white balance to fix the fluorescent lights erie glow, fans were windy on the microphone, and Jillian's voice was hard to pick up. Soon it got better though.
Content made the video shooting much better. I started moving around with the steadycam (see www.steadycam.org for what this cool thing is), and I was able to focus in on each child when they shared their first drawings with the class.
It got much better than that and you'll just have to wait and see the pictures and DVD when we get it out.
We're planning to put up pictures soon, as soon as I can get my laptop plugged into a network port to send them to hello.com (the great picture hosting service affiliated with blogger).
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