Final Presentations–SHOW YOUR WORK

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ALL TIME-BASED PROJECTS NEED TO BE EDITED TO 5 MINUTES WITH TITLES.  Use your time with the critics well. Make your presentation not more than 10 minutes.

Slide 1 – Thesis title section, your name, thesis professor name. All footers should have your name on it so that your critics know who you are.
Slide 2-Situate the critic in your user/target audience. Say: “Imagine you are 20 years old, you live in a high-rise projects, you smoke pot, and watch lots of TV. Then one day…”
Slide 3- GIVE AN ELEVATOR PITCH OF YOUR THESIS. “My thesis is set in a big city and shows one episode of a situation comedy about two stoners who discover a way to get rich quick….My thesis answers the subtle question of gentrification in an overtly ‘street’ style. ”
Slide 4-Show the most important influences behind your work (three of the most important)

THEN PLAY YOUR FINAL PROJECT  or ask the guests to play one round of your game or your interactive project, or to look at your book or use your mobile app for food spotting or use your website.

Slide 5-Thank your critics and ask them if they have any questions for you. You can also choose to frame a question for you that you would like them to answer.

FINAL WEEKS — DRAFTS OF PAPERS ARE DUE

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Hello Thesis 2–

FINAL PRESENTATION ORDER FOR NEXT WEEK AND WEEK AFTER!!!

TUESDAY, May 7th and May 14th (Critics Micheline Hess and George Griffin-my mentor! so make me proud!)

Belinda Whiteman
Francisco Flores
AJ Afano
Kyungwon Yang
Saiq’a Chowhury
Innocent Obi
Alfred Lam
Andrew McCauseland

THURSDAY, May 9 and May 16th (Critic so far: Mohini Dutta — Ray Zablocki)

James McConchie
Michael Minella
Ben Shotwell
Jonathan Abbo
Richard Pean/Jennifer Shim
Robyn Silevitch
Bryce Williams

NEXT WEEK-APRIL 30 AND MAY 2

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April 30 – SECOND DRAFT OF FINAL PAPERS DUE– come to class!! OROZCO ROOM trip at 1:45PM
May 2 – FIELD TRIP–EVERYONE MUST BE ON TIME TO ATTEND (or you will be left behind) Location will be revealed in class only.

WE WILL LEAVE AT 12:00 promptly from the lobby at 2 West 13th Street. 

BFA THESIS 2 FINAL WEEKS OF THE SEMESTER

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April 23 – A final look at projects and WRITING YOUR PAPER and REVIEW OF FINAL DELIVERABLES (See the end of this post)
WED April 24th – and THU April 25th
MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO SEE ME ON THE GOOGLE DOC
April 30 – SECOND DRAFT OF FINAL PAPERS DUE– come to class!! OROZCO ROOM trip at 1:45PM
May 2 – FIELD TRIP–EVERYONE MUST BE ON TIME TO ATTEND (or you will be left behind) Location will be revealed in class only. WE WILL LEAVE AT 12:00

May 7 – Final Reviews in class
May 9 – Final Reviews in class

May 14 – Final Review 1 – Micheline Hess & George Griffin
May 16 – Final Review 2 – Mohini Dutta & TBD

ALL THESIS MATERIALS DUE: FRIDAY MAY 17TH – NOON – AMT OFFICE 79 Fifth Avenue, 16th Floor

FINAL Party: Friday May 17th, 3PM
Panchitos Mexican Restaurant
105 Macdougal Street
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FINAL THESIS 2 DELIVERABLES
1. Final Video Briefcase or Time-based explanation of your project
2. Final PAPER (bound and covered)
3. Production Notebook if you have it
4. Final Project – BURNED ON A CD/DVD – Make sure your disk works. If it does not, I will not be able to grade you.
5. UPDATED WEBSITES

Animators, (SEE BELOW FOR MAY 10TH BFA ANIMATION SHOW DEADLINE) please burn your final movie according to Animation Show specs to a back-up disk (CD/DVD) in QT format NOT as a playable DVD!!
Web Designers: give me your final URL and all of your elements backed up on a CD/DVD
Game Designers: please make a video tutorial of your game so that I can see it being played. I need the rule set, a system chart, the game and all its playable pieces (if it is digital, make a playable file so that I can play it),
Illustrators:I need a copy of your final project IN HARD COPY. If this is not possible, a digital copy backed up on a CD.
Installation artists:A video of your project in use and installed.
Physical Computing artists:a playable version of your project demonstrated in a video. I need all of your code as an appendix to your final paper.
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ANIMATORS: HERE ARE THE SPECS FOR THE FESTIVAL SHOW:
ANIMATION RENDER FILES ARE DUE BY NOT LATER THAN Friday May 10th
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE ANIMATORS,I AM COLLECTING YOUR WORK IN ONE BATCH AND SUBMIT IT ALL TOGETHER to Jun. I will appoint a coordinator.

PLEASE PREPARE: One hi-res and one lo-res version of YOUR project

Hi-res: Animation Compression
Lo-res: H.264 Compression

Both: 1280×720, QT.mov format (no .mp4’s)
Audio: 16bit, 48kHz, Stereo.
AE and FCP, (and just about all other software) will automatically default to the highest quality of the captured audio setting, so your students should not have to mess with this.
ANIMATION RENDER FILES ARE DUE BY NOT LATER THAN Friday May 10th

BFA AMT SHOW DEADLINES

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PRINT AND POST WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT!!

CURATED SHOW DEADLINE-APRIL 15TH

CDT BOOK & WEB SUBMISSIONS-APRIL 15TH

The curator will invite all the people she wants to see in the show in the APPLICATIONS REVIEW: APRIL 15 TO 19—after the interview they you will know that they are in the show. She may actually select other work from their submissions and NOT their thesis project!

 ALL FINAL WORK MUST BE RECEIVED BY APRIL 25

THE SHOW GOES UP IN THE MAIN KELLEN GALLERY AT 2 W. 13TH ST FROM MAY 9 – 14

THE EDITION SHOWCASE OR POP-UP SHOP is an opportunity for students to actually show sellable work like products/postcards/t-shirts/posters/objects/artifacts. It goes from May 20 – 24th.

STUDENTS!! SUBMISSION TO FESTIVAL AND BOOK

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HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FESTIVAL? 

1. This is the link to the festival exhibition and pop-up shop

http://amt.parsons.edu/blog/faqs-for-applying-to-the-amt-undergraduate-festival-exhibition-and-pop-up-shop/

WANT TO KNOW HOW TO SUBMIT TO THE CDT BOOK?

2. CDT Thesis Publication
Submission Guidelines

Deadline April 15th, 6pm

You will receive a link to a Google form on Monday to submit your images for the CDT Thesis publication.

What you need:

  1. Full name as you want it to appear in the publication/on the website
    ex: Ken Meier
  2. Project title
    ex: 1001 Fallacies
  3. URL for the project, could be a standalone or part of your personal portfolio
    ex: 1001fallacies.com
    OR
    kenmeier.com/1001fallacies
  4. Your portfolio URL
    ex: kenmeier.com
  5. Final 250-word introductory paragraph
    This should be persuasive text, meant to draw the viewer to find out more about your project.
  6. 5 print-quality images of final piece or pieces in a folder named lastname_firstname_project
    – at least one of them vertical
    – Images should be at least 1500px across for vertical and 2100px across for horizontal (5in x 7in @ 300dpi)
    – High-quality JPG or TIFF only; rasterize any vector/eps files
    – Max file size is 25MB.
    – Place images in a folder named appropriately and share a link to the folder. Naming conventions:
    – lastname_firstname_number.extension
    – ex: cezzar_juliette_01.jpg
    – Name in order of importance. In other words, _01 is the “hero” shotIf you are documenting screen-based work, please take a screenshot at the highest resolution possible and don’t resize it. If you’d like to contextualize it, make sure your browser window is totally clean – no bookmarks, add-ons, etc.If you are documenting a website or app on a phone or tablet, read this:
    http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mobile-design-tutorials/iphone-design-templates/
  7. 4 print-quality images of process in a folder named last name_firstname_process
    Same guidelines as above.