Process
- The initial process was to select our focus and the theme we wanted to explore
- Who we were going to talk about (selecting the women)
- Discuss our interests in terms of what we were comfortable doing for the project; technical, research, and writing. This allowed us to begin assigning tasks according to our abilities and interests
- Goon and Terri watching the “how to work scalar” videos and work on the technical aspects of the site
- Sarah and Lissette worked on writing, researching, organizing and splitting up the work
- After tasks were assigned, we began to plan individual meetings to develop our responsibilities
- Once individual meetings took place there was another subdivision of work given that several women jazz musicians were selected to be featured in the project
- Split up the work
- Lissette: Ann Rabson, Etta Jones, Holly Hoffman, Lyne Terri Carrington
- Sarah: Marie Schneider, Nancy Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Vi Redd
- Meeting our own deadlines
- As a follow up strategy, we presented each other our work
- Brainstorm and develop book chapters/ sub categories
- Split up the work
- In class Sarah and Terri started to look at the race of each women and Matt started watching scalar videos
- Googled names
- Put findings into google doc
- We were missing two transcripts to proceed with the project. As a solution, Sarah emailed Monk Rowe to find the transcription for Michi Fuji. Rowe also provided us with an addition transcription about Carol Bash, a Hamilton alumnae who produced a documentary about Mary Lou Williams, who Monk claims, is the most important woman jazz artist.
- Goon and Terri split up tech work
- Terri working on videos
- Began working with Adobe Premiere, yet Premiere kept crashing
- Used Premiere at the end of the project to clean up clips
- Worked with Quicktime to cut clips, according to the transcripts that Lisette and Sarah highlighted and provided
- Uploaded videos to Youtube channel and Google Drive folder with little problem
- Uploaded to Scalar along with copies of Transcripts right below them
- Double checked with Goon to see if the formatting aligned with his vision
- Began working with Adobe Premiere, yet Premiere kept crashing
- Goon working on Scalar
- Terri working on videos
- Goon added women pages to scalar and organized table of contents
- Goon found photos of women, edited them, and uploaded to scalar
- Added content to all the pages
- Formatted and stylized pages
- Underwent many revisions
- Lots of problems with formatting and stylizing
- Lots of problems trying to manually code with HTML and CSS
- For example trying to just force new lines would now work
- Once our book page was completed, we scheduled a final meeting to discuss our class presentation.