edit** After speaking with Jason in class AND finding out that we only had a week to complete this project, I’ve decided to remove the lower charts information area at the bottom, and remove the rating system as well, as that’s not necessary now that the chart’s been removed.

In Jason Arena’s Dynamic Persuasion Design class, we’re being asked to create a project that is a interactive experience based on user generated content. My project idea is a website that allows users to submit their favorite Music lyrics and rate other submitted lyrics. The website has different sorting features, such as, top-rated lyrics, most-used words, most popular artists, and recently posted.

I’m still trying to figure out how I want the data to be visualized; I’m not sure whether I want it to look neat “web-app” like, or more dynamic, messy, and organic. Sketches/comps to come!

I was inspired to do this when Jason put Keith Beltramini’s discussion board post up on the projector: ecotonoha, I’m not sure how I put the two together, but the idea came to me, and I’ve been thinking about it since yesterday.

Spring Quarter @ RIT is finally over!

It’s been a tough quarter, but Keith Beltramini and I pumped out a lot of work for WXXI, the local PBS station, as a project for our Emerging Multimedia Class. We had 10 weeks to complete this project, the first three weeks (I think?) were dedicated to planning and storyboarding, giving us around seven weeks to complete all the pieces. Each piece was created using images cut out of stockphotos, or created from scratch, then made into compositions in Photoshop, and animated in After Effects.

You can peek at them here .

Got back from Toronto last night, FITC was really inspiring! I think this year was a good year to attend because of the newly released creative suite 3 by adobe, there were a lot of presentations that made use of the new creative suite, and I saw a lot of the features of flash cs3 and actionscript 3. The FITC ticket was definitely worth the money, and us new media kiddies had lots of fun attending the presentations and meeting the big people!

I think I’ll definitely go again next year!

Now that I’m back in Rochester, I’ve gotta get back into the working mindset. In Emerging Multi-Media, we’re currently doing a motion graphics package for Homework Hotline, a show shown on PBS all over New York. Check out http://flip.cias.rit.edu for the in progress work.