5.00am reading Book 3 Creativity, Innovation & the Organisation.
8.30am Doctor, My colestrol is too high. I have to take simvastatin and chane my diet.
9.00am Opticians
9.15am Barber
9.48 am Train to London
11.30am Picasso Exhibtion, Tate
1.00pm School of Communication Arts
5.20pm Leave having spent between 30-50 minutes with each six creative teams (art director and copywriter).
7.17pm Train Home.
10.00pm writing it up.
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B822 Applied creative think for a creative industry
Monday, 27 Feb 2012, 22:01
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The value of voice recognition software
Monday, 7 Feb 2011, 13:19
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Monday, 7 Feb 2011, 14:05
I have in front of me a script for a video production dated 1986. I could have typed it in by now. However, I have twenty of these to do and if I want to digitise 2.5m words from old journals and letters I may need something faster than typing it up or scanning it in.
Voice recognition seems to be the answer and this seems to be the product.
I've been familiar with the oddly named, though brand creating 'Dragon Speaking Naturally' since it came out. Now I feel a need. I doubt it'll solve an OU H800 essay crisis, though often reading something out loud is the best test of its sense.
Any recommendations or warnings?
I could also skip the writing/typing process entirely and turn into text what I record verbatim, for example, poolside coaching or teaching to inform fellow coaches. They can have it as a podcast and/or as text.
My aim is to find ways to get the contenst of my mind
On verra.
With all the production materials, scripts, schedules, budgets and other plans it feels retrograde to be taking a linear video production and turning it into a Power Point style presentation, but this is the plan. And to treat this as the penultimate draft before segments are replaced with video and interactive and assessment components are added.
The topic is The Great Picture which illustrates the struggle Lady Anne Clifford had to keep an inheritance her father bequeathed to his brother Henry during his lifetime for a cash sum, so denying his then 15 year old daughter what she considered to be her rights. The painting is dated 1646.
I have the permissions to use pictures of miniatures and other portraits dated from 1986 which I'll have to renew, including the lute music copyright. I own photographs of the picture I took between 1974 and 1990 and have broadcast quality video footage of the picture too. I also have and this replica which I've just photographed on the top of the piano where the figures are the size of Ken and Barbie rather than life-size.
The Voice Artist who 'played' Lady Anne will be replaced simply because I want to re-conceive it so that 'Harry Potter style' all the figures in the painting (and the painitings of paintings) tell their own story.
We'll see.
And this is simply an exercise to see if I can make the Adobe eLearning Suite 2 software I picked up at Learning Technologies sing.
What's your big idea?
Wednesday, 2 Feb 2011, 12:14
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Wednesday, 2 Feb 2011, 13:59
Sometimes I act in haste, sometimes I wait so long the opportunity is missed.
From the garage archive today I removed:
A box of pics belonging to my stepmother (the second of three). More on these in another environment.
I think as the family archivist I'll allow the ancients and the new comers to pick over this lot in their own time. Included here is an out of focus pic of me being bundled out of Church after my Christening. I can see my father and godfather in such good humour that maybe I appreciate now how they remained close after everything else that occurred subsequently in our ridiculous family saga.
Also
A set of slides, photographs and letters giving permissions to use images from museums in the UK and North America to illustrate the story of 'The Great Picture,' a triptych commissioned by Lady Anne Clifford in 1642. This extraordinary, vast painting, an 'Avatar' or 'Gone with the Wind' of the 17th century was one of my early 'Audio Visual' commissions - all stills, rostrum work and voice over inspired by the diaries of this 'Proud Northern Lady.' From 1988 I wanted to make this vast picture and all the stories it tells interactive and from 1998 put it online.
Suddenly it is possible.
And easy.
Courtesy of Adobe and Captivate this will be my 30 day trial and 30 day test ... getting copyright permissions to scan in or source fresh originals to tell the story of Lady Anne Clifford. Actually, I have slide 'Masters' from the original museums, so it may be a case of looking at the detail of the permissions I was given twenty years ago.
I also found this:
Which does this:
And on the other side said this:
I worked with a class of Year 6s (age 11). I sent them back to 1066 to locations and on dates of my choosing. In pairs. They recorded what they witnessed to camera as if in a photobooth, or 'Video Diary' box. I should seek permissions from these teenagers or their parents to share the outcome. Let's say their perspective on 1006 is more post graduate than GCSE.
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