Madison Square Park- “The South”
When I captured this image, I felt almost as if I was no longer in New York. Something that new yorkers are extremely fortunate of is the fact that they can enter a new area, and have the feeling that they are no longer in New York. Which I believe this image captures this expression perfectly. Although it does depend on angles, and how you position your camera, but I believe with the victorian structured building and this southern flower, the image can definitely confuse you as to where you are.
Madison Square Park- “First Leaf to Fall”
When I took this image, I saw a leaf drop down from its trees branch and I rushed to take a picture of it. Growing up in Miami, Florida I wasn’t really exposed to the different seasons, so when ever I see my first leaf, or snow fall I get all excited and happy that I am being exposed to another season aside from summer.
Madison Square Park- “Behind a Jewish Man (home)’
Map Of Madison Square Park- Still In the Womb
Time Metropolis- Project 1; Outline- Coffee Shop (Joe’s)
Jacqueline Groll
Time Metropolis
9/3/15
Project 1:
-Place: Joe’s Coffee Shop
Explanation: I believe that a coffee shop becomes a home for people during the period of time that they spend there. From my own personal experience, I have noticed that my behavior towards being in the environment of a coffee shop is the same as being in my own home, apposed to being in any other public space.
Many people have different expectations when entering a coffee shop. Such as, seeking coffee, reading their daily newspaper, attending a meeting or just for the sake of catching up with an old friend. Each person that enters a coffee shop, has a story behind them, and being that we are all strangers in a small space we never truly know what goes on in the lives of those who we do not know. This coffee shop shelters many emotions and stories, and being that I love studying the mind of people I believe that Joe’s Coffee Shop was most suitable for this assignment
*The images/storyline will not necessarily portray any story inproticular, but a typical situation of what happens when I enter a coffee shop and the view of people minding their own business.
-Why: It is a public environment where people go seeking different things.
~Such as: Coffee, conversation, business, bathroom, food, etc.
-The environment shelters many different emotions that people may maintain in this public space.
~Such as: Anger, happiness, sorrow, loneliness, peace, hunger, and comfort
-Song: Typical Situation By; Dave Matthews
*Images/storyline:
- Me entering the shop — walking in through the door way (over the shoulder angle)
- View of the coffee shop with people in it (wide angle, POV Shot)
- Profile of me staring at the food at the coffee bar expressing hunger. (Profile/Close up shot)
- Image of the line to order your coffee/food. (Wide angle)
- My expression from looking at the line (extreme close up)
- Looking down at my feet as I impatiently wait in line [personal expression-lack of patience]- (Close up/ Bird’s eye view)
- Coffee barista or ‘o’ asking me my order (POV)
- Me saying my order (profile shot)
- Shot of me handing the cashier money (close up)
- Image of the people waiting for their coffee (Wide angle shot)
- People fixing their coffee up at the bar ( over the shoulder)
- Barista ‘o’ calling my name
- image of me reaching for coffee (close up)
- image of me looking around
- walking to a seat with a friend waiting (wide angle)
- gutes smiling sitting (half body shot)
- sitting with gutes (wide angle)
- image of the coffee shop (wide angle)
- man reading the paper ‘gutes maybe representing it’ (close up)
- someone working on their computer ‘gutes maybe’ (close up)
- someone on their phone ‘friend or model’ (close up)
- shot of coffee almost done
- me getting up with friend
- leaving
- last look at the shop
……..
Once I receive the coffee there will be images of people around the shop, and their situations.
These images w
*Color:
-Cool colors—warm
-Depending on the emotion that is being expressed
*Type of art:
-photography-photoshop
-Commentary from student evaluation:
I am slightly confused about which perspective you are going for. Is it the perspective of the people? How everyones expression/emotions make the place come to life? Or is it your perspective on how you observe all these things? Like when you want to take a photo of your feet as you wait impatiently…I got a bit thrown off by the objective. “Once I get the coffee there will be images of people around the shop, and their situations.” If you are leaning more towards your perspective, I think it would be cool to see your expressions reacting to other people expressions in the same photo. I like both ideas, but I think it has to sway either way.
*i made these corrections, and took them all into consideration.
Steps:
- First step made this document.
- Took image shots
- Picked images to use
- Made an arrangement for the storyline
- Edited images
- Made a new storyline
- Put the images together on premier
- Voice over and edited
- completed
The Importance of Categories and Tags
By the end of your first semester, you will have posted a lot of content to your learning portfolio. One of the challenges for you, your instructors, potential employers, family and friends will be sorting through it all. The Courses and Topics menus based on categories and tags, the tag list, your post titles and the search box are all ways of finding things in your portfolio, but Categories and Tags are the two most important. Both help you reflect back on the work, but they also give visitors a way to understand the relationship that exists across the images, text, videos, and other content that you’ve created in the various projects, classes, or years at Parsons.
As mentioned elsewhere, Categories and Tags are two means of aggregating and presenting related content in your portfolio. Your learning portfolio comes pre-populated with categories for each of the courses you will be taking in your first year at Parsons. It also come pre-populated with over 60 tags for you to use, but you can create new ones at any time. Log into the Dashboard of your learning portfolio to see the full list of categories and tags. You will find both under the Posts tab.
Categories and Tags in the Dashboard
So whenever you make a post, be sure to assign a category for the relevant course and year and add relevant tags that might be thematic or as specific as the name of the course project the post relates to. For example, your final project in Space & Materiality might require you to develop a proposal, preliminary sketches, some historical or technical research, a prototype and a final product. These might be uploaded in separate posts, each of which could be tagged as Space Final Project. To find them all, one would simply click on the tag in the tag list or at the bottom of one of the posts to pull them all together under the heading of Posts Tagged “Space Final Project”.
This post has been assigned the tag of LP Instructions. You’ll see the tag at the bottom of the post, in the sidebar and in the footer. Click on it in any of the three locations to see what happens. On the first day of the semester, the result will look a lot like the homepage—four posts about the learning portfolio—but over time, these posts will get buried amongst all of the other content you’ll be posting to your portfolio. To find any of them, all you’ll need to do is click on the LP Instructions tag.
Posts Aggregated by Tag
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do that for each of your projects or themes you’ll be exploring?
Though less selective, the search box is another way to find things in your portfolio. You will get much better search results if you put some thought into giving each post a concise but descriptive title.
- More information about categories and tags can be found here.
Finding Your Way Around the Learning Portfolio
Get to know the layout of the learning portfolio.
Theme
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Welcome to the Parsons Learning Portfolio!
The Learning Portfolio is where you will tell your Parsons story. If you have questions or would like to learn more about the many ways you can design your portfolio, be sure to visit the Student Resources + Support site at portfolio.newschool.edu/studentsupport. But before you do, be sure to read the About pages under Courses and Topics in the menu bar and in the Links section of the footer, as well as the other three posts found on the homepage.
As a student at The New School, you can create as many blogs as you wish. But when you first registered for your Learning Portfolio at portfolio.newschool.edu, a portfolio/blog was created for you with your Net. Id. at the end of the URL, e.g. http://portfolio.newschool.edu/YourNetId. Hopefully, that’s the blog you’re reading right now. Have a look at the address bar for confirmation. It’s important that you use that blog—that URL—as your Learning Portfolio. It makes it possible for your instructors and classmates to find your Learning Portfolio. To learn about privacy settings, see the Help menu.
The Learning Portfolio is a tool with which you will engage throughout your education at Parsons (and perhaps beyond). The focus of the Learning Portfolio is on reflection, on looking across your many courses and semesters and the various assignments and projects throughout the curriculum. The portfolio is a way for you to examine your own progress and performance, to share your work with others, and to tell a story about your time on campus (New York, Paris, and elsewhere).
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