Multimedia Pre-Production meeting

Welcome to the first full pre/production Crew Meeting:

We’ll be discussing pre-production roles, process, needs, and timelines. Any and all questions and concerns will be addressed at this meeting. We will touch upon look and feel and how to achieve an organized and informed unified media process.

We will also be assigning production crews to each Preceptor and set a meeting time for the Preceptor-only meeting.

Pre Production: Course Content

Demographic/Audience:

Undergraduate Students in Pre-Lab

Additional Content Developers:

BS50: 2 undergraduate students BS52: 2 post-docs

Streaming Video/Mandatory Feed Back Form/Web site Design & Programming:

5-6 videos/Preceptor 3 in the summer/3 in the fall BS52: 8-10 Flash Animations BS54: has need for animations

Browser/Monitor:

Mac/PC; Realtime/Quicktime

Test Video:

BS 54 Microscopy : Good Version

Pre Production: Course Content

BS50 - Christine (til end July->Rich)

Sterile techniques (basics, plating microorganisms, titers and dilutions, mammalian cell culture)

Chip analysis (techniques, SNPs/pharmacogenomics, transcriptional profiling, limitations of data)

Meiosis and tetrad analysis (Meiosis animation, Neurospora vs Saccharomyces, tetrad dissection vs random sporulation)

Use of reporters (B-galactosidase, GFP, others)

Northerns and Southerns

Cloning, transformation, and transfection

Pre Production: Course Content

BS52 - Lauraine

Electrophoresis (agarose vs acrylamide, what %, what Amp/Volt to run at, IEF, capillary)

DNA sequencing (Restriction enzyme mapping, lab/gel techniques, methods such as PCR, Sanger, automated, etc.)

DNA topology (1D/2D gels, animation of enzymatic reaction, run on gel)

Gel shift/analysis of DNA binding proteins

Staining and labeling (histology/cells, DNA, types of stains used, when and why they work, radioactivity, enzymatic assays)

FISH

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~bs52

Pre Production: Course Content

BS54 - Cheryl

Centrifugation (vocabulary, techniques, types of rotors, supernatant vs pellet, from microfuge to Sorvall to ultra)

Generation of antibodies (polyclonal vs monoclonal, modified secondary antibodies)

Beads and Tags (biochemical sorting, IP/Co-IPs, GST, 6-His, cell sorting, agarose beads, etc.)

Gradients (refer to ultracentrifugation, subcellular fractionation, how to get molecular materials, labelled organelles?, DNA/CsCl gradient, proteins such as ribosomes, etc)

Protein sequencing and analysis (old vs new methods)

ELISA

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~bs54

Pre Production: Course Content

Completed Sample Videos:

May need to be retro-fitted into the style we choose to use as our "universal template style" for all of the videos, but are usable now at Harvard).

Western Microscopy Pipetting

Pre Production: Production Team

Executive Producer:

Robert Lue

Writers/Point People:

Cheryl Vaughan Christine-->Rich Dearborn Lauraine Dalton-->

Production Manager/Coordinator:

Leigh Stimolo

Camera Operators/Line Editors:

BS50: Lansing Wagner BS52: David Pasternack BS54: Steve Keirstead

Crew:

Sound Technician: Jack HowardLighting Designer: Leigh StimoloProduction Assistant: Eliza StephensProduction Assistant: Clark Magnan

Content Contributers:

BS50: Undergraduate students

Video Server Network Administrators:

Webmaster: Steve Keirstead Chiasm Server: Pepe Lopez

A/V Support:

A/V Dept: Jose Lorbes Harvard@Home Head A/V: Forest Glick Harvard@Home A/V Assistant: Rudy Hypolite (4-7435)

Animators:

Flash Designer/Training: Leigh Stimolo Flash Designer: Cheryl Vaughan Flash/Live Motion: Lansing Wagner Flash/Director Developer: John Rodrigez

Web Designer/Developer: Browsers, website Designer/Programmer: Leigh Stimolo

Pre Production: Writers/Directors

PRECEPTORS/POST GRADS/STUDENTS:

Content & Clarity of Course Material is up to you

Storyboarding

Scripting

Script enactment with prospective talent

Script Rewrite/Editing (including storyboarding animation sequences)

Preliminary Location Scouting

Submit location choices to Production Coordinator

Submit Talent Release forms

Submit Storyboard and Script to Production Coordinator

Location Scouting run through with Production Coordinator (digital archive, PC)

Pre Production: Camera Operators

TECH MEDIA SPECIALIST/INSTRUCTIONAL LAB TECHS:

Create Shot List (@ least 2-3 shots of everything)

Attend Equipment Orientation given by Production Manager: camera ( lighting, audio)

Pre Production: Production Coordinator

LEIGH STIMOLO:

Research and Recommend Appropriate Equipment: Order, Inventory, and Assembly

Develop Look and Feel

Talent Colors, Backdrop, Lighting Schematics, Sound Techniques and Design

Lighting: High Contrast; Backdrop: Warm Tones; Microphones: Boom vs. Lav; Film Look: Gain, Pixelation, 3 Chip, 16:9 ratio

Train Preceptors in Pre-production standards and processes ( providing step by step reference materials)

Offer location scouting suggestions

Scout locations with Preceptors (digital image coverage)

Review Storyboarding, scripting with writers

One-on-One Finalizing Storyboarding (including media application training)

Assist Writers/Directors in the Development of Shot Lists.

Maintain Pre-production and Production Schedules

Upload/Maintain digital database of master materials (including storyboards, scripts, production schedules, meeting notes) on Video Server

Hold Equipment Oreintation for Camera Operators and crew

Pre Production: Production Coordinator

LEIGH STIMOLO: (CONTINUED)

Outline/Define Post Look and Feel:

Video Compression Image Stylization: Resolution, Color Correction, Filters CG Titling: Font Usage, Color Scheme, Animation Motion Audio Tracking: Background music bed, SFX, sweetening, and mastering techs Design Quicktime Skin/GUI: Look and Feel and Functionality

Pre Production: Crew Discussion

OPEN THE FLOOR TO DISCUSSION:

Now that we reviewed the aspirations of this project and the roles of all involved, please feel free to ask any questions regarding pre-production process.