Chiming in to give an update,
It’s been a crazy month and a half or so, with all of the teams really busy on our respective projects. I have the say, things have been taking a bit of a down turn, but that doesn’t mean that we won’t put out a good end product. What do I mean by that? Well, the faculty over at Jemez Historic Site have really been dropping the ball when it comes to communication, often leaving our teams with very little information to go on in order to complete their work. With regards to the video team, we’ve been unsuccessful with properly scheduling interviews because of the way the Jemez natives live their daily lives…apparently, time isn’t much of a concept, especially being anywhere “on time”…they show up when they show up. However, that’s not to say that we haven’t shot any interviews, we have..we’ve shot one with Marlon, Brenda and Curtis; all native employees there at the site. We’ve also had the opportunity to speak with a Jemez Tribal Preservation officer about this duties with regards to the Jemez Pueblo. We also interviewed Marlon’s grandfather, but none of his content was useable…what I mean by that is that he answered interview questions in Towa (their language), and when they were translated, none of the content revealed through English translation was useable to the story we are trying to tell. In fact, the majority of these interviews leave a lot to be desired…but we’ll make it work, somehow.
Another thing that happened was that we’ve been plagued with problem after problem with regards to the projection mapping project. The place we purchased the projectors ended up sending us one projector with some “shaky” parts inside and another projector with a warped lens. We’re currently dealing with those issues. Another problem was that this projection mapping project was supposed to show HQ photos of the surrounding areas of Jemez paired with animated museum text panels that highlight various information pertaining to the story of Jemez. The main problem there is that (again, going back to communication problems) the design team hasn’t gotten any of the content in order to put these panels together…AND WE INSTALL THIS WEEK!
Crazy…if you ask me…but ultimately, this is good real world experience and I’m glad that I’m in this class. I think it’s benefitting me both with the planning stages of my field project and with information to guide me and to reference in the future with new professional institutions/projects.
With all of that being said, here are the few photos from the project so far:
That’s it for now! I will probably have more to update you with when we finish installation day, and then again for the day of the opening! So stay tuned! 😀
Jemez Historic Site Re-design 