Reflection Part 3 by Camila Bueno https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx en-us 2019-03-19 14:43:01 UTC 2025-05-01 19:27:13 UTC hello@padlet.com First Week | 18/03 - 22/03 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/345279400 Unfortunately last week I couldn't come because I was feeling sick. I did my project proposal and my action plan everything at my house and it went just as I expected. I already had a plan in my head of what I wanted to do so it was easy. The hardest part for me was to find the right references, I had the artists, filmmakers and photographers that I wanted to, but I couldn't find anyone who passed the message that I`m willing to pass, maybe this can be explained by a lack of knowledge of questions inside my theme so I need to research more. I was getting a hard time to get things started, I was feeling lost and didn't know where to start so I went to the Study Support with Carlos and he gave me a light. He suggested me to start researching more about the concept of the everyday. WHAT IS THE EVERYDAY. Also he passed me a HUGE reference that is a book called the everyday by Stephen Johnstone that talks exactly what I`m proposing to my final project. It has a lot of huge references inside the context of contemporary art, besides that it talks a lot about the meaning and the context.A question I also talked about with Carlos was if it is the best choice for me to work with photos and film-making that it is what I want to do - since my B.A choice is graphic design I thought I was supposed to do something to do with that and it is not true. I definitely can do anything and that is the coolest part about this project. So i will do my small movie portraying the everyday of different persons that I know and that I don`t know. 
Another thing we had to do was the action plan. That part is always hard for me, I can`t even do a proper action plan for the day imagine for the whole project. It was a big challenge but it was easier than I thought and it also helped me to see that I don`t have the time that I expected too. I`ll have to start things earlier so I will have time for everything, for example, I want to dedicate some Wednesdays and Thursdays with the people recording their life's, so I`ll have to spend the whole day with them and this will certainly have to be planned. I was thinking about leaving that for the making phase of the project and it won`t be possible, I have to start in the experiment phase otherwise I won`t have the time to edit everything. 
The plans for my next week is to start experimenting and doing my annotation and to improve my research here in the Padlet, because everything is at my project book. ]]> 2019-03-26 14:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/345279400 Second Week | Monday 25/03 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/345401637 Again I couldn't come due to personal problems, but I started to read the book related to my project "The Everyday" and to make annotations that can help me in the future. I got a lot of new references and basis to start researching deeper, film-makers, photographers and even philosophers of the everyday appeared to give me some light. I wrote everything in my Project Book so I can do the proper research tomorrow. ]]> 2019-03-26 18:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/345401637 Second Week | Tuesday 26/03 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/345403642 Today we initiated the day with Michael speaking and encouraging us to start everything, he asked if anyone had a doubt or  was feeling lost so he could help us, I thought it was only me but there are people who are worst than me when talking about initiating the experiments. 
Then we had a lecture with Henry talking about what we can do to improve things, how can understand the target audience who will be here in the exposition, what we need to think to make a nice presentation, to clarify our concept solution, clarify our issue and he also encouraged us to change our constraints (use different sources and materials, the mistakes can bring us different outcomes and ideas).
Afterwards in the afternoon I dedicated my time to make my Research Padlet, I had a lot in my sketchbook that I wrote to search it later and I never did, that was the time. I discovered and improved a lot my ideas. I had solutions to some problems I was projecting and it helped me to see that I can solve anything. ]]> 2019-03-26 18:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/345403642 Second Week | Wednesday 27/03 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/346582006 I'm feeling a bit lost of how should I start experimenting, I tried taking some pictures, but I feel like I am still in analysis phase, I'm going to start experimenting next week. I have a few ideas in my mind of how to do that so I can start filming as soon as possible. I have a movie to watch tomorrow, it is by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin it is called Chronique d'un été (I talk a little more about it in my Research Padlet). I feel like I have nothing special to reflect about these last feel days, I feel more comfortable when reflecting about my manual processes.]]> 2019-03-29 14:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/346582006 Second Week | Thursday 28/03 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/346582499 I saw the movie I talked about yesterday. Actually it isn't as cool as I thought it would be, it sure is a big reference for me but the story is kinda boring, it is too deep for me, too artistic and too philosophical, it is more like a documentary and it has a story line, at the beginning I thought it would be nice to have a story line, but when I did the research I found a project called "Visible World" by Fischli and Weiss where they take a lot of pictures and at the exhibition the just keep passing so than people don't have to stay to watch and understand the whole concept, they can understand it from any time. I was thinking that maybe this is a better solution for me, I always thought it was boring when I went to exhibitions and I wanted to see a "movie"and I had to wait to start all over again. I took a time to think about that, I also had the impression that maybe if it hasn't an order it wouldn't be a narrative, but it depends on how you plan everything. It is always possible, it is just one more challenge I need to face to improve my project planning. As soon as I start recording I can visualise it better and plan a way to create a story line without a certain time.  ]]> 2019-03-29 14:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/346582499 Second Week | Friday 29/03 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/346582607 AM: I've spend the day finishing my last researches, reading my book to add information in my writers research and also I scanned pages to glue in my project book. I found an interesting exercise of George Perec where you are supposed to describe everything you are seeing. He teaches step by step what you should visualize and how to describe properly the situations. I'm going to print that and experiment in the daily situations and see if it works for me, I'll try to put into words the things I want to record, if it works out I may use it later for my presentation.
PM: In the afternoon we had this research critique feedback where we were supposed to form groups (already made by the professors) - in my case my group was me, Dani and Vini and we should see each others Padlets and give feedback about it (The picture of the structure is uploaded here). I thought it was a really nice exercise, it is very helpful to hear tips of other students on how to improve the Padlet in general. For example, when Dani and Vini saw my Reflection, we had a discussion because I talked to them and said that it was very difficult for me to reflect in this research weeks that we're having until we actually start the project and Dani was having the same problem, but she already had a solution, so she gave me an example and showed me which of my reflection was better for me to "follow a line". At the beginning I thought it was a lot of time, but it ended being actually short because when everybody already had finished we were still talking about Vini's Padlet. 
Another cool thing about this exercise is that I got to know a little bit more about Vini's work and we are doing a similar project in a way, he showed me more references and we are planning to go in a primary research with Anna Costa e Silva. It was nice that they mixed Motion and Communication Design, I was missing that. ]]> 2019-03-29 14:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/346582607 Third Week | Tuesday 02/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/347835419 Today I started the day doing the Perec's exercise. I had to write down everything I was seeing in the moment, describe everything even the smallest details. It was very useful because I experienced another different kind of language I can use in my project I really like this idea of mixing writing, photo and video for example (I love the organized mess) and I actually felt really comfortable writing everything. I think the first I did was very descriptive. When you read fragments of Perec's writing he describes possibilities based on what he is seeing, he explains why what he is seeing is actually there (there are a few examples in my sketchbook). In the afternoon I made another, in a different environment and it got better, but I have to practice more to get where I want, maybe I can use small phrases that I liked the most. I also have to remember that I am not George Perec, I'll never right just like him so I do have to consider that I have my own style. One example of something I wrote that I found interesting "Cezar just came here and sat in Isa's table, he's drinking tea in a huge 1L bottle, it is a peach tea just like the Japanese candy that is still melting in my mouth". 
Also I had one-to-one tutorial with Carlos and it was very useful. I discussed with him the problems I was having with following my action plan, he told me that when my plans change I can revisit, reevaluate and edit (if necessary) my action plan. We also talked about my reflection, the same problem I discussed with Dani and Vini + my problem with the idea of doing an weekly Reflection that everybody suggested me, I don't like that. He had a solution for me that is: When I'm feeling tired or not into writing a lot, I should make a list of everything I did in that day and upload it to the Reflection so I won't forget things, but I definitely will need to write (or record) every detail later. I think this will really work for me since I don't forget things I do and sometimes I am not inspired to write. I know reflection helps me a lot, so I always do it, even though I don't do it that day. I keep constantly analyzing my work when I'm doing it, so I always know what to write. 
In the afternoon I took some pictures with my cellphone to test. It is not what I actually want to do, but it's just examples to encourage me to start everything. I glued it into my Project Book and I pretend to start recording something tomorrow, I feel like I need to start asap so my work will be perfect. I have to test everything and record a lot to have material so if I don't like a scene for example I can replace it with another that may be extra.]]> 2019-04-02 20:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/347835419 Third Week | Monday 01/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/347835491 -]]> 2019-04-02 20:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/347835491 Third Week | Wednesday 03/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/348929930 As it was self study day, I took this day to spend at home taking pictures of my father and my sister working and doing their things. It is important to take pictures and analyse the environment and see how the camera works before start really recording. The outcomes weren't as I expected, I guess it is because the photograph doesn't pass the same feeling as the videos. Anyway, it was an experiment and it helped me to understand the camera and what I should take care with from now on. 
Also, I finished to read the texts I highlighted in the book. There were some that had nothing to do with my project so I discarded it. I glued all the important fragments and did the whole analysis in my Project Book, now I am feeling more comfortable with doing the reflection since I started experimenting. In a way I am still struggling on working on my own, this step is necessary for me since I'm not the best person when talking about responsibilities.
I improved my Research Padlet with the tips I had from Dani and Vini and also searched more about Gabriel Orozco, his videos are a great example of the opposite of my work and it is important to have that kind of reference to avoid future mistakes. ]]> 2019-04-05 14:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/348929930 Third Week | Thursday 04/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/348929976 Today it was my first day recording. As I was alone at my house in the morning, I decided to start with my dog Bella. It was quite funny recording her because at the beginning she was kind of afraid of the camera but later she got used to it. I really liked the outcomes because different from my father and my sister that I recorded in the afternoon, she was really natural - as a dog she didn't understand what was happening so for her she just kept acting normal. When I started recording my father and my sister, they weren't feeling very comfortable so they kept laughing or doing funny faces at the beginning, also when I started recording they stoped what they were doing and it got mechanical, the movements weren't fluid anymore. It is definitely something I have to think for the future recording, how to make the people feel comfortable even with the presence of a huge camera next to them. I don't know why people always try to look pretty in front of the camera being that the beautiful part is the naturalness. Anyway, it was important for me to analyse this when I record people that I "don't know" or the ones that I know enough to say they won't like that. ]]> 2019-04-05 14:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/348929976 Third Week | Friday 05/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/348930085 Today was awesome, I finally feel like my work is starting, I gathered all the small videos from yesterday and started working in Premiere. I selected the best ones and cute some scenes that weren't as good as I imagined. I was anxious for this moment, I really like the step of filmmaking, but the postproduction is the best, it is where you can actually give a vision to the viewer. The best achievement for me so far was actually getting started, it is the worst part for me because I never know what to do and it and this has worsened taking into account that we are responsible for our plans in Part 3. 
All this process I had so far contributed for me to see that I need to improve when talking about the camera. I have the vision, but I always struggle to adjust focus and the light and most of the time I end up having the frame I want, but a shitty resolution (sometimes you can fix that at Premiere and sometimes not). Now I have to practice more and get used to the camera, maybe record more than once the same scene so I can choose between more than one outcome later. 
Next week the tutorial will be Progress Tutorial, I intend to have more films recorded and a better final file of my movie. I need to record more people doing stuff and edit again in a single file. I need to stop focusing on research and in the book and start doing the actual works. I started to realise that if perhaps something goes wrong I can fix it before the exhibition, I need to have that time to finish the last details and see if everything is going well thinking that I also will have one week to mount the installation and in that week the video must be ready, ]]> 2019-04-05 14:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/348930085 Fourth Week | Monday 08/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/349915448 Today I got late to EBAC so I couldn't get in the morning, I was feeling exausted due to my weekend that I had a lot to do for my work. In the sfternoon I was supposed to continue working in my videos, but I had no new material because I couldn't record anything on the weekend, so I got this time to have ideas for the exhibition, for my instalation. I drew some examples in my Project Book and it helped me to actually see and have ideas of what I need to do and to think better to have the nicest outcome. After that, I talked to Monique and she advised me to make a Ps file to the progress tutorial of how it should look like in different places ans surfaces, thinking in this way, I have to record more and have a ready outcome of a video with at least 5 minutes to show how I want it to look like in the end. It was nice for me to do this, because I had no idea of what materials I wanted to use and it is important to think, because I have to go search this materials and see what will look better for me, for example, I want to use Voil Fabric (the transparent and thin one very used at exhibitions) and maybe mirrors (garage mirrors too) and security cameras, we can't find this anywhere so I have to plan. I also printed some pictures of my progress to glue in the project book and read more of the everyday book since I liked it a lot, there are still a lot of useful material for my project. From now on I'll have to focus on record more and have more material for the progress tutorial, otherwise I'll lose myself later, I need to remember that I am not the best person editing things on Premiere, I still have to learn a lot so then I'll have the perfect outcome that I want.]]> 2019-04-09 13:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/349915448 Fourth Week | Tuesday 09/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/349915580 I started the day recording as usual, one point I observed was that it isn't really nice record people at EBAC, they are always doing the same things and the environment is always the same so it doesn't look good for the outcome. This helped me to realize that I should record more outside EBAC and this will directly affect in my independent days because I need to start recording more outside. Tomorrow for example I'll go to Escola da Cidade to record my architect friends, they'll have a nice open class and I can enter there and see and record them doing their projects. I think I am working really well actually, I just have to focus to have a final example for the tutorial next week, so I'll have all friday to get the file ready (at least 5 minute video). As I'm working, I keep thinking about the installation too, today while I was doing some research I found a lot of films at YouTube of different video installations, how were they exhibited, how they did it, etc. and I put everything at my Research Padlet. I realized that if I don't have enough files, my days are getting a little bit boring, so I have to focus on that, the more videos I have, the better. ]]> 2019-04-09 13:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/349915580 Fourth Week | Wednesday 10/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/350871225 Today I went to Escola da Cidade to record my architect friends, it was quite an experience because they were having crit of a really different project, they were supposed to to a non-object (an object that is not an object with ANY material). My videos end up to be as nice as I thought it was going to be, also the building where the university is is very photogenic. It was great seeing my friends again, I got to chat with them a lot and everyone of them asked me about my project and they got so excited as I am and all of them told me they're going to show at the exhibition and that in a way makes me even more worried about the results because everything has to be perfect. I have to think on where am I going tomorrow to record, maybe to my granny's house, I don't know. I need to have more videos to edit everything on Friday to the progress tutorial next week. What I'm realizing is that my videos are taking another direction. It is really hard to spend the day with people because they always have something else to do or don't get to excited with the idea, so I'm just making videos of people in their natural daily lives, things they usually do or single movements I think it has to do with my project and actually I'm feeling more confident and comfortable with that, the takes I have are getting better and better and I can record at any time and anywhere I want.

]]> 2019-04-11 16:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/350871225 Fourth Week | Thursday 11/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/351545214 As I had a lot of videos recorded I took this day to check them all and see which one of the, I can use in my project. Turns out the videos I made at Escola da Cidade weren't as good as I thought they were. I had to erase a good quantity of them because they were out of focus or simply because I didn't liked them. I wasn't so inspired to record today, maybe it is due to this failure I had yesterday, but it is not only about success, this made me think a lot and I realized I have to check everything before I leave the place I'm recording. For tomorrow I intend to edit every material I already have for my Progress Tutorial on Monday. ]]> 2019-04-15 02:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/351545214 Fourth Week | Friday 12/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/351546135 I couldn't go to EBAC today, I was feeling really sick, I ate something bad at a restaurant and I couldn't sleep at night, I think Michael is going to kill me but I don't know, I think everything happens for a reason and if I appear with a really goos project and show the best of me it will make up for my failures. ]]> 2019-04-15 02:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/351546135 Fifth Week | Monday 15/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/351810608 [EDITING DAY + PROGRESS TUTORIAL]
Everything related to this day was very helpful for me. I started the day having Progress Tutorial with my tutor Carlos and it really surprised me. I almost "passed" with Merit and this has never happened to me, I think it is due to my dedication with this project, I'm all on it and I am getting each day more excited. I made annotations at my Project Book that will help me to get my Merit on Part 3 (there will be some changes around here too). It was one of the most helpful tutorials I ever had, I guess it is due to my dedication too, if you don't do things, there's no way to judge it properly, I guess I was making everything very superficially. I'm very excited and I'm going with all of it to the changes I need to make.
Now it's time to talk about the edition process. I'm improving a lot when dealing with Premiere, I'm learning and making things I didn't even knew I could make. I really liked to play with overlays and colors and the filters make the biggest difference. I decided that I should do by parts, I already had 61 small videos so I got the day to edit and gathered literally everything, if I left everything for the last minute it wont work FOR EXAMPLE, today at the same time it was good it was a disaster too. I edit everything at EBAC's computer and I saved it as a Premiere file and in mp4, I downloaded everything at Google Drive, but when I got home and opened the Pr file it said it was damaged, so I lost my file, I have the video in mp4, but it's like nothing for me because I didn't finished everything, I have a lot to add and I didn't edit the audio because it is the last thing I'm going to do. The nicest thing is that I thought I was going to be a lot more stressed about this, but I'm actually really calm because it is the part that I like to make. But it was a lesson to believe in my intuitions that told me to put everything in an external HD besides the drive. For the next weeks I'll definitely do that, I even got the HD in my hands right now. I was just waiting for something like this to happen. Now I have the HD with the videos and an mp4 file of the project I liked the most, at least I have it to use it as a basis.  
[some annotations I've made during the Progress Tutorial]]]> 2019-04-15 20:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/351810608 Fifth Week | Tuesday 16/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/352564886 [REDOING THE EDITION OF THE VIDEO]
I redid the video all again, it was kinda boring do the same thing again, but seeing the bright side it was good for me because I had the change to see things with another eyes and I guess this time it is even better. In a way I got faster and better on the Premiere just redoing the video, I was able to do it everything in less time then yesterday. Also, as I already had made it, I was more focused on details, on things I haven't seen last time. Also I changed things from the edition, transitions that I realized it has nothing to do with my project. Something I learned from this is that every video I edit from now on, I'll check it again the next day to see if things are 100%. Sometimes when you are doing things in the computer and learning from it you get too excited and end up doing more than you need, in my case I don't need much, my video don't need to have a lot of effects and transitions as it is going to be projected in a instalation, I'm not saying that it shouldn't have, for example, I'm doing some crazy overlaps that generates an amazing efffect for the eyes, it is like two scenes in one, one related to the other (I just need to test to see if it is as good in the projection as it is in the computer). ]]> 2019-04-18 14:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/352564886 Fifth Week | Wednesday 17/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/352565018 [STUDIO DAY + RECORDING]
Today I had the day to record more, it was interesting because I think I wasn't too inspired, I recorded some things but I didn't liked the outcomes, I didn't had the vision I'm used to, I did the things very centralized, didn't focused on details that I like, but I think it is not every day you get inspired. It looks so easy when you are used to it, I'll upload a video here to have an example of what I don't like to do. Anyway, I'll get some parts of it probably I can always get nice frames even from the videos I don't like, I get just some parts of them and add in between scenes or even I'll do an overlap with them, I'll decide this when I'll do it, there's no way of having an idea of how it will look like you have to actually do it to see which one will look the better (maybe in the future when I have more experience I'll know how it will look like even though I didn't make it, but now I have no idea so I'll do it). ]]> 2019-04-18 14:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/352565018 Fifth Week | Thursday 18/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/352565149 [STUDIO DAY + RECORDING]
I spend the day with one of my best friends and my sister, we laugh a lot and celebrated a lot, my friend got her first job and she was really excited about it. I was thinking that I'm really into this project, it is really nice to record this moments that maybe we won't even remember in the future. I have videos of when she got her first job, this is going to be really nice in the future. People don't pay much attention to the things that are happening in the moment, we don't appreciate things as we should, everything seems to be really superficial and when these moments pass, we miss them. I got this reflection when I start asking myself if I wasn't doing the same thing everyday, but I'm not, even if I spend the day recording it won't ever be the same and it will only improve my project. After that I uploaded all videos from yesterday and today and today and I selected the best ones that I'll probably use, I'll edit them tomorrow if I have time or next week with other videos (at the same time I have good materials, I don't have much so I don't need to worry about having a  amount to edit later).]]> 2019-04-18 14:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/352565149 Fifth Week | Friday 19/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/353034098 [HOLIDAY + SOME RECORDINGS]
As it was holiday, I had lunch with my family and I got the nicest moments in camera, everyone was so happy and excited and the day was so pretty. Honestly I did nothing after that, we spend almost all day in the restaurant and I recorded some scenes it was all, I don't like to charge myself from the things I could have done, I think somedays are just for enjoying things as they are. 
[one picture I took from my sister]]]> 2019-04-22 12:56:57 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/353034098 Sixth Week | Monday 22/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/353034162 [PROJECT BOOK + PADLET + 1:1 TUTORIAL WITH MONIQUE]
I had a lot to do in my Project Book and in my Padlet, finish my reflection and do more researches as I talked to Carlos in the Progress Tutorial, I'm starting to make improvements as I talked to him (Carlos), I did the Weekly Action Plan as soon as the class started and I started to make the Harvard Referencing on my Research Padlet. In the morning I finished everything that was pendant, I wrote the poem in the Project Book, one poem called "Not waving, but drowning" by Stevie Smith, I heard this poem in the new album of one of my favorite rap singers and I thought it has everything to do with my project, it talks about a man that their friends thought he was waving from the sea but he was drowning and her poem says a lot about people that appears to be good, but they are actually with some problems (there is a bigger reflection about this in my Project Book, I don't think I need to rewrite this here again). I also did my Reflections and Researches that I had to do and then later in the afternoon I had the 1:1 tutorial with Monique. We discussed a lot about my installation and she said I need to focus more on this part of my project and she's right. I have everything planned for the videos and as I already know the structure and I'm better at Premiere I think I really do need to stablish what I want and set goals for my instalation. On my Studio Days I'll go after materials I'll need to test them and see if it works out as I'm planning too. I did sketches of more ideas I had and highlighted the materials I need. Monique also gave me tips on where to go to look for the materials I want, like Casa Castro where I can find cheaper garage mirrors and frames. At the same time I did nothing, I did everything. I was needing this time to arrange things so I can go forward in my project, tomorrow I can do more related to the project, I really need more videos so I can finish everything and focus on the instalation and on the details. Monique said something really interesting, she told me to focus on the idea of FRAGMENT as my videos are about fragments of daily lifes (improve this idea). 
[annotations I’ve made during the 1:1 tutorial with Monique]]]> 2019-04-22 12:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/353034162 Sixth Week | Tuesday 23/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/353489795 [GENERATING IDEAS + 1:1 TUTORIAL WITH CARLOS]
I got the day to think about my installation, I had a small idea of what I wanted to do, but now I'm feeling more lost than before. I had a 1:1 tutorial today with Carlos and he gave me other idea, so now I have Monique's and Carlos's ideas, the thing is, I think their ideas doesn't represent me. They gave me great ideas and I started developing them but it is not me, it is not what I wanted to do. Monique suggested the use of garage mirrors and "bastidor de bordado" to create the same effect as the mirrors and put them on the wall and display the video above it all and Carlos suggested me to make the instalation with everyday objects, reproduce the video in an old cellphone, upload some images in an old tablet, place a file with my texts and annotations, but this is not me. I like to paly with light and different materials, I don't like the idea to buy ready materials and I think that the video should be the center of the work, so I started to look for things that got my eyes. I started serching for the meaning of Installation-Art and some examples of it and I got to a place where there were a lot of installations with light, fluorescent lamps and neon and I always wanted to do something with that, so I thought: "Why not do something with neon?" - I could write the name of my project (that I really like) in red neon for example, I found an adress here in São Paulo called Neon Arte and they do literally ANYTHING with neon lights. Maybe I can place the neon on the wall and put the voil in front of it and project the video in the fabric. I guess I'm going to keep my ideas and discard the ones the tutors gave me, sometimes it is nice to know how to say no and know your own style. They are both great ideas, but they are not for me and not what I'm looking for, I think in both of them the center of my project that is the video is going to be lost in the middle of a lot of informations. 
[a small brainstorming I did thinking about my installation]]]> 2019-04-23 18:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/353489795 Sixth Week | Wednesday 24/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/354165201 [INSTALLATION]
I decided I'm going to stay with my initial idea of the installation. I'll make buy some big fabrics with different textures, but delicate and I'll mix all of them and project my work above it. I'll also budget how much will cost to make the neon light and if it is affordable I'll definitely do it, I know it doesn't have much the do with fragments (may it will be since I'll use different fabrics with different sizes) or the everyday, but I want the focus to be the video, it is not about the installation. I did some sketches and I think the outcome will look beautiful and sophisticated as I think my style is. My plans was to buy the fabrics today, but I couldn't manage my time to do that since I had more things to do so I'll look for it tomorrow - I need to have them for Friday. I think I could abstract more and make more out of my installation, but I can think in nothing else, this is being the worst part of the project for me, nothing is pleasing me and I have no ideas of what to do. It is really stressing that we need to send the Exhibition Proposal next week and this is complicating my ideas, I don't work really well under pressure. But everything is going to be alright, I'll send this idea and I believe I can do more even though it is just fabric. I did some sketches of how it is supposed to look like and tomorrow I'll do the files in Ps to see how it actually is going to look in the "real life". 
[sketches of my installation]]]> 2019-04-25 15:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/354165201 Sixth Week | Thursday 25/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/354165327 [RECORDINGS + LOOKING FOR FABRIC]
Finally I got to spend the day with someone to record, it was my dad but it was really cool. He was supposed to go to a client and take pictures and measure places and I went with him. I got really nice shots of him working and we found a fabric store almost next door to the place we were. Unfortunately they didn't had the oil fabric I wanted because it was out of stock, but I saw a lot of beautiful fabrics and I had a lot of ideas, I'm confident about mixing a lot of different fabrics to make like a huge screen as it is in a movie theater, I want the environment to make people feel comfortable, I want to embrace people with my work. I have nothing much left to say about this day, it wasn't very productive but it was really exciting, I felt like I improve my work a lot. 
[video of my dad working]
[I uploaded a screenshot because the Padlet doesn't upload my videos, I think the file is too heavy]]]> 2019-04-25 15:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/354165327 Sixth Week | Friday 26/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/355032084 [RESEARCHING AT HOME + EXHIBITION PROPOSAL]
Today I went to EBAC in the morning, but I wasn't feeling very good, I had head aches and couldn't support being at EBAC so I went home again. As I had lots of things to do I tried to optimise my time by doing some researches about my installation and I also started to make my Exhibition Proposal. I talked to some of my friends to see some thoughts about my idea of doing the Voil with neon or the idea of doing some different fabrics all together and they gave me some very valuable opinions. About the neon they told me some truths, it is going to be too much information in one single project and I agree, the neon is going to take the whole attention and the video will be in second plan (as I said before I don't want that). The different fabrics maybe is too much too, so I'm going to focus on the idea of one single big fabric, as Monique said I can print my poem on the fabric and the outcome will be great too. Maybe I can put the shiny fabric in the sides to create an environment and also put some cushions on the floor to people feel more comfortable. Later that day I started to make my Exhibition Proposal, as I have a brief idea of what I want to do, I did something vague, as I intend to use a big fabric in all my ideas, I can say that the size of my project is the size of the fabric, I put a little more so if I need to use that extra space it will be possible. About the materials, I do need to think about that, maybe put all the things I'm thinking that won't be a problem too. It is going to be hard to do it as I don't have a certain idea, but I think I can manage that to work well.
[print screen of the Research]]]> 2019-04-29 14:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/355032084 Seventh Week | Monday 29/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/355042596 [FINALLY I HAD THE IDEA FOR THE INSTALLATION + EXHIBITION PROPOSAL]
Today something happened, while I was at class doing researches I had one brilliant idea. I was searching for installations with everyday objects and I started to think what object could fit properly in my proposal. I thought about a clothesline and it was perfect. From this point on I started searching different kind of clothesline, some more artistic, the simple ones, colorful, without color, etc. I saw one installation that had a lot of fabric hang and it looked like they were hung by a wood and it fascinated me, so I'm going to stay with this idea as the main idea, I glued a lot of references in my Project Book with all the examples I found and wrote about what I liked the most in everyone of them. Now that I have a brief idea on what I need to do, I started thinking about the place I can do my work - Monique helped me with that one because I was feeling lost as usual - so she gave me two ideas, the first and the best one is at Ju's table, where she has a recluse environment with a sink and a mirror and it is perfect because it is the intimate space I want and besides that I can play with the objects that already are there. The other space is the walls between Malu and Laura's table, it is a good space but it is going to give me some trouble since it doesn't have the structure or the power outcomes I need to the projector and it has a window behind where I would out my work so I would have to think about another clothesline with a black fabric hang on it to block the light, otherwise my projection won't work. Now I just need to finish my proposal with this 2 ideas, I already decided which one is the best for me but it doesn't depend only on me. 
[Project Book - examples of the clothesline I searched]]]> 2019-04-29 14:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/355042596 Seventh Week | Tuesday 30/04 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/355476588  [FINISHING THE EXHIBITION PROPOSAL + 1:1 TUTORIAL WITH HENRY - GENERATING IDEAS FOR THE INSTALLATION]
AM: I finished the Exhibition Proposal, I did the last drawings of the scale model that I needed and uploaded the pictures of the Ps files with the pictures and collages at it. It was hard to decide which help I'll need because it is something really simple, so I just need help to hang everything and make sure everything is straight.
PM:In the afternoon I had like a 1:1 tutorial with Henry and he gave me some ideas to think about the installation. He told me I could use just some wall, but we decided it is not the best idea since I think most people won't pay attention to it. So we started brainstorming about objects of the everyday and I explained to him why I want the place I choose and in the end he had a lot of ideas too. He told me to search for a toilet so people can sit while watching the movie or buy small canvas to hang on the wall with some silly pictures I took about the everyday, things like that. I think it was a very productive day even though I didn't do much.
[picture of the scale model for the Exhibition Proposal]]]> 2019-04-30 15:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/355476588 Seventh Week | Wednesday 01/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/356293521 [HOLIDAY]
I took the day to rest, I had an event and when I got home I was feeling tired and I slept the rest of the day. ]]> 2019-05-02 16:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/356293521 Seventh Week | Thursday 02/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/356295900 [SPENDING THE DAY WITH FE (RECORDINGS) + EDITING]
Today I got to spend the day with someone different, someone out of my family and study environment. I schedule to spend the day and drink coffee with one of my best friends that I haven't seen in a while. It was really nice because we chatted a lot and have so much fun that I almost forgot to record her, she reminded me of that actually. I got really nice shots because we went to a really cute coffee house which helped a lot. When I got home I started editing and adding to the final video some recordings I had pending, I also needed to mix the different videos because it was arranged in a boring way, each person appeared in "one single time", for example, I had several videos of my dog and she appeared first in a line and then there was nothing of her at the end, I didn't want that, I wanted a mixed timeline, that way it is less boring for the person who is watching. I also learned how to adjust color and increase the quality of my work. It is funny because I'm learning a lot from watching youtube videos of people explaining how to work with Premiere and how to use the basic tools. 
[video of Fe in the coffee house]
[I uploaded the picture because Padlet takes too long to upload my videos, I think the file is too heavy]]> 2019-05-02 16:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/356295900 Seventh Week | Friday 03/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/356628336 [DOING THE BOX SET DESIGN + 1:1 TUTORIAL WITH CARLOS]
We started the day doing one exercise in pairs, we were supposed to talk to a friend and see which materials we'll need for the exhibition and make a list of what it is, where to find it and the budget. In my opinion this was a silly exercise, I already know what I need and the person I paired up with also knew everything. Our works were really different and she didn't helped me with any place or any idea. Also we lost a precious time that we could be making our actual projects. After this exercise, I had 1:1 tutorial with Carlos and we talked about me feeling lost on what to do in this part of the project and he gave me more ideas to think about my project, we submitted our Exhibition Proposal and I have to know where I'll put my work to see the sizes I'll need - for each space option I have a different idea. Also, he told me that maybe if the materials I'll put in the installation can be the ones the persons are using in the video, the installation will explain itself if everything is connected or if everything makes sense. Also he suggested me to work on my Box Set and develop more the ideas of the other 2 options, since I only have a concrete idea to my option 1. As I'm feeling a little unmotivated today due to personal problems, I felt like doing the design of the Box Set because it is something that I like to do, that calms me down. I talked to Monique and she told me it doesn't necessarily have to be related to my project, so I started thinking about things I like and I always wanted to make something related to some sculpture or some artwork and I started doing a design with 2 different sculptures "Davi" and "Victoria de Samotrácia". I liked the second one better since it turned out to be a crazy drawing and you can only understand it if you know what art piece is. In the background I added different textures and forms so I can make an overlay with different colors, I know it's going to be more work for me because I'll need to print two different screens, one for the background and other for the sculpture, but I think it is worth it. 
[final file for the box set]

]]> 2019-05-03 14:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/356628336 Eighth Week | Monday 06/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/357421377 [FINISHING THE DESIGN OF THE BOX SET + PROJECT BOOK]
Today I got late for the AM class, so I stayed in the Mac Lab updating my Padlet because I forgot to do Reflection on Friday. In the afternoon I finished my file for the Box Set and when I showed it to Monique she didn't liked it, she told that the vector I did wasn't professional and it wasn't good, I personally liked it and everyone I showed it liked it too. I understood her reasons and I tried to improve it since she has way more experience than I did, so I changed a few details, I tried. I honestly don't know if it's good enough, but for me it is and I think this is the most important thing is that we have to consider the critiques, try to improve and give the best of us. Tomorrow I'll send and e-mail to Union Fotolitos and I hope to have the screens ready by the end of the week. I also got the time to print some files I had ready with photos I needed to glue in my Project Book, I printed the Exhibition Proposal because I think it is nice to have this kinds of things in the Project Book, when future people look at it they'll see my proposals and how I think and solve my problems. I took a lot of time fixing my Design for the Box Set, so I came to the conclusion that despite not appearing, the day was very productive.
[design of the Box Set - first layer]]]> 2019-05-07 00:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/357421377 Eighth Week | Tuesday 07/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/357610688 [REMAKING THE DESIGN OF THE BOX SET + HELPING ISA + CURATORS MEETING]
One exciting and at the same time frustrating day. In the morning, I tried to remake the design of the box set as Monique told me to, but unfortunately I didn't got the result I expected. I really liked the first one I did and nothing got into my mind after that. I tried to make 3 different ones, but I couldn't even finish it, so I think I'm going to keep my original idea, the most important thing is for me to like it and as I said yesterday there are people who likes it too. In the afternoon I helped Isa Orsi to take some pictures of her work, she's going to do something like a performance and she did really crazy costumes. At first she asked me to wear the costume while she took the pictures, but she wasn't feeling really comfortable with using the camera, so she asked me to do that for her. It was really nice to see how we can manage to do things better when dealing with people who know different things, she performs really well and I'm used with the camera and with taking pictures. Also, at 2:30 pm we had an Curators Meeting where we got to know the place where we are going to place our work at the exhibition. I got none of my options, Michael chose the Toilet for me, at first I honestly didn't liked it because I don't like the idea of the Toilet, I don't think it is a """""comfortable""""" place, but I understood why he chose that place and it really embraces my ideas, so everything is going to work well. In a way I got the environment I want, with sink, mirror and a paper holder, it was a great solution, also I got a closed space that I wanted, so everything is going to be perfect, I'm even thinking of using the toilet itself and maybe do some jokes about it or transform it into something beautiful as it is the propose of my work. For the next two self studio days I'm thinking about recording A LOT so I can have the video ready for next week and buy the fabric to make my sheets. My deadline is getting closer and closer and that freaks me out, it looks like I have nothing, but I believe in myself. 
[pictures of the Toilet where I'll exhibit my work]]]> 2019-05-07 13:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/357610688 Eighth Week | Wednesday 08/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/358564316 [LOOKING FOR THE FABRIC (?) + RECORDINGS]
Today I had scheduled with my boyfriend to look for some fabrics, he works doing clothes so he know places cheaper because he has discount as he buys enourmous amounts of it, but unfortunately he had a last minute commitment with a client so we couldn't go, anyway it was better for me in a way because I got to record more, I'm in my last days for recording because my deadline is getting closer and this is the center of my whole work so it has to be PERFECT. I recorded some scenes that are very common for me, for example me and my sister cooking, my mother working and her dog that is as cute as Bella that I already recorded, one interesting fact is that at first he was really scared of the camera, and than he got curious about it so I had really interesting frames when compared to Bella, who didn't cared about the presence of the camera. Now I have more videos to work with but I'll wait for edit it tomorrow with the rest of it.  
[video of my sister cooking]
[I uploaded the screenshot of the video because my Padlet isn't uploading videos, it takes too long and it doesn't upload at the end]]]> 2019-05-09 16:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/358564316 Eighth Week | Thursday 09/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/358564472 [RECORDINGS + EDITING]
Today I did nothing very special, I recorded a little bit and tried to edit everything already, I wasn't feeling really inspired so I dedicated on doing the editing. I tried to mix the order of the whole movie because what was happening was that every video was in order, so it appeared all videos from my sister, than from my friend and so on. So I mixed all the videos without an specific order to be more pleasing to watch. Actually, watching the movie now with no music and the audios with people saying random things is really boring,I hope when I add some music and low the volume of the talking it gets better.]]> 2019-05-09 16:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/358564472 Eighth Week | Friday 10/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/358997116 [FOTOLITO + TRYING TO DESIGN SOME POSTERS]
I was talking to Monique and I decided I should finish my file for the fotolito properly, she helped me with that, she taught me one way of vectorizing images without loosing the quality (this is what happens when you use an automatic tool for that). First of all you open the image in Photoshop and select the parts you want to use, then you cut it properly and leave it without a background, after that you use a filter called "thereshold" it is placed inside of the image bar at the top of the page and finally adjust it the way you want it to look. It is actually really easy doing that and Monique was right because it does look better. As Ju was with her fotolito ready too, we sent the files together to Union Fotolitos so it was cheaper because the guy sent both together. Unfortunately, it arrived at EBAC by 6pm so we weren't there anymore and couldn't print the screen, but we can do it next week. After that, once again I was feeling a little bit lost on what to do, as I talked to Carlos last time, I tried to optimize my time by doing something I like but that it has to do with my project, so I started playing at Photoshop and creating some posters with the name of my project. I've always wanted to learn how to make that crazy design with pure cyan, magenta and yellow (I'll upload an example below), so i started experimenting and I found out how it works, it is the simple lettering and you play with its opacity and organization. I end up with really cool outcomes and I learned how to do another designing style, unofrtunately I won't use it because it has nothing to do with my proposal, I can use it for self promotion in my social medias so people can be more interested in going to my exhibition. 
[one of the posters I designed]]]> 2019-05-10 18:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/358997116 Nineth Week | Monday 13/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/359682802 [BUYING THE CLOTHES WIRE + DECIDING THE MATERIAL I'LL DEEFINITELY USE FOR THE CLOTHES WIRE + FINISHING ADDING THE VIDEOS IN THE PREMIERE FILE]
As I woke up late for EBAC I took advantage that my mother was going to Leroy Merlin and went with her to look for some materials that I needed for my installation, for example, the clotheswire. The ones I looked in my neighborhood weren't good enough, I was looking for something more aesthetic and I only found the ones made of that material that looks like a waxed white rope. I found one that is like a coated copper wire, it was exactly what I was expecting so I bought it. Now I was in doubt between the string and this fancy clotheswire, I think I don't need to say which one I chose, the prettier, fancier one and besides that the string wouldn't be firm enough and it wouldn't look very nice. After that when I got home I got the time that was left and finished adding every video I wanted to the premiere file and started to make the color correction in the whole movie. I did the easiest way, using RGB curves and fixing it to brighter every colors that were highlighted, it is exciting to see how the video improved from the start, everything looked so simple and now it is more professional, more worked. Now I'm anxious to see how it will look like when finished, I can definitely say that by the end of the week everything is ready and I'll have the movie in my hands for the exhibition.
[picture of the clotheswire and the string]]]> 2019-05-13 21:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/359682802 Nineth Week | Tuesday 14/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/360054509 [MEETING THE FAD STUDENT THAT WILL HELP US + PRINT THE MISSING FILES FROM THE PROJECT BOOK + FOTOLITO (?) + TESTING PENS IN THE PAPER + WRITING SOME PHRASES + 1:1 TUTORIAL WITH HENRY]
We've met our Santa's Little Helpers today, the FAD students that will help us installing our Exhibitions. We're supposed to give them tasks that we don't have so much time or that we don't want to do. I had a really great time with my helper, her name is Marina and she gave me really cool tips for example, I asked her to help me clean the bathroom, the sink is really dirty because people cleand their pencils and throw paint away on it, so she told me that vinegar with bicarbonate is really good for cleaning. Besides that kind of tips she helped me write a list of I what I need for the installation next week and as I writed posca pen she told me that she has a lot and she can borrow me. It was really cool and I felt like she really got my project and is as excited as I am for next week, I think everything will work out. After that, in the morning part, I printed what was missing in my Project Book since the printer in my house is broken, I need to print files like the examples of the box set, pictures of the place I'll exhibit and the ps files with examples of how my installation will look like when ready. I also went to talk to Marcelo about the Photolitho, I had a huge problem with mine because the dots are too small and to close and maybe when I print it, it can blur, so I may need a special screen and he say he can borrow me after one student use it (he had the same problem as I did). Now I just have to wait and see, I can make another one too, that won't be a problem, but maybe Marcelo can help me with that, as he is really busy these last weeks, he told me to come to EBAC on Thursday afternoon to see if we can fix this problem.
In the afternoon, I tested the pens in the paper from the paper holder to see which one looked better, I glued it all in my Project Book and found out that the best ones are with Posca Pen (as usual) and with Text Marker - I think with Text Marker is more casual, as if I had written it without commitment. Then I started writing some phrases about the best feelings in the world, my initial idea was to write poems about the everyday, but I thought it was a better idea to try to show the beauty in the small moments, I guess my work took that way. As I was writing my small phrases, Henry showed up and we had an 1:1 tutorial that was reeeeeeeeeally useful, he gave me the idea to use another paper holder with blank papers so people can write what they're feeling, throw it in the trash and then take one from the paper holder with the phrases, this way what I am doing makes more sense than only writing things to fill the paper holder and make it useful. I also told him about my idea fot the toilet, to fill it with flowers and he found it really funny and we discussed if it was a silly idea or not, and in fact, it is silly, but it's interesting and it has a meaning and the meaning had a lot to do with my work, to show that there's beauty everywhere, so I'm actually going to do it. I can definitely conclude it was a very productive day.
[picture of the pen test in the papers]]]> 2019-05-14 18:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/360054509 Nineth Week | Wednesday 15/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/360902436 [TRYING TO MAKE THE WRITE ON EFFECT OF THE VIDEO + MAKING THE DESIGN OF THE STICKER FOR THE MIRROR]
Today I basically spent the whole day trying to do one lettering effect on Premiere. I want to make an effect in the title at the beginning of the video where it looks like someone is writing it. At first I thought it was simple, I saw a video on Youtube of a guy doing it and tried to do at the same time with him, like I was in a class. But it is not the same, in this kind of video, the person who is teaching always forget to specify something or doesn't explain it the right way, so I got really confused and messed up with everything, I tried to make it twice, but in both I failed. Then I thought about watching another one, with another person explaining it, tried twice again but I didn't succeed. I was feeling tired, but I wasn't going to give up, so I saw the first video again and finally I understood my mistake, I mixed both videos and they completed each other and it all made sense. So I did for the fifth time and guess what? No, I failed again, the brush stroke was too thin and it didn't covered the whole letter. As I had already succeed and knew my mistake I did again (very persistent, I know) and FINALLY on the sixth time I GOT IT and it turned out to be perfect, it was just the way I wanted.
After all this novel, I had to make the design of the sticker for the mirror. I wrote a small text talking about my project and what means my whole installation and how things are connected. Although it sounds like a lot, I did a more concise text, I didn't want it to get boring or annoying to read. So I made the file with adjustments in the text break to look more aesthetic and sent it to the print shop. I want the letter to be blasting, so it won't have a precise color, it will be something like a blur, I hope it looks nice because I won't have time to make another one - just kidding, I will I just don't want to, but anyway I saved the file and have everything ready if the worst happen like another thing I was thinking is that I need to be VERY careful when I glue the sticker so it doesn't rip, but I'm prepared for this, so everything will be just fine.
[video of the write-on part]
[I had to upload an image of the part because my Padlet isn't uploading videos, but the effect is supposed to look like someone is writing it]]]> 2019-05-16 17:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/360902436 Nineth Week | Thursday 16/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/360902599 [FINISHING THE VIDEO + SHEET + FINISHING THE STICKERS FOR THE PAPER HOLDER]
I still can't believe what happened today, I finally finished my video. I didn't believe that this moment would arrive, in fact, did not know when he would arrive. At first, everything was fine, I made the credits at the end of the movie, everything how it is supposed to be. But then I had a problem, I changed the videos to another paste and I forgot that Premiere can't find the files by itself after you change them from one place to another, when I did that and the message of ofline media appeared I freaked out, I didn't knew it was possible to locate the media after that, but I searched on google (the father of the dumbs) and found out the answer, so everything turned out to be just fine. After the stress I went to my grandmother's house to borrow the sheet for my installation, I decided that i wasn't going to buy it when I saw it was a bit expensive in the places I saw it and I wouldn't spend my money on that, so I asked my grandmother for one because she has a lot of white sheets and she gave me one that was older and stained. When I got home again, I did the stickers for the paper holder explaining the order and what to do with them. I used the same typeface as in the sticker for the mirror so everything is going to match and it won't be a mixture of different styles, I guess it has already a lot of information in my installation. I was also thinking of maybe doing a sticker for the cover of the toilet, some words playing with the idea of the flowers inside it or something like that. I think I'll ask Monique in class tomorrow, she'll know whats best for my outcome. 
[screenshot of the credits]]]> 2019-05-16 17:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/360902599 Nineth Week | Friday 17/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/361189136 [FINALLY PRINTING THE BOX SET + CLEANING THE TOILET WHERE I'LL EXHIBIT MY WORK]
I finally got to print my Box Set. The outcome turned to be better than I thought that it would, first I printed the background, I choose a light purple for that - I decided the colour because I always use fluorescent tones when making silk screen, so this time I wanted to try more pastel tones. It was harding printing it at the beginning because the dots are too close one from another so it was really easy to clog the holes and if that happened it would blur everything. For the second layer, the one with the vector I was having some doubts about the color, what would match the light purple I used in the background, so I asked Marcelo for his opinion and he showed me a color that someone made and left there, it was something like a light pastel pink with orange and it was a perfect match. Naturally I had some problems when printing, some of them blurred but I think I got what is necessary. I loved the outcome, I think it was one of my best works, it looks like something that it's not and the photolito makes it look like it has a bitmap effect and it reminds me of serigraph . It has been a long time since I last did silk screen and I really like that, I think I need to improve it and keep making more and more since it's something that I like. After that, I didn't had much time left of class I dedicated the whole day for the print making, so I got that time to clean the toilet I'll use for the exhibition, it was a total mess since everyone in my class uses there to clean painting materials or to wash hands dirty with everything possible, the sink was awful I don't even know how to describe what was there, I also took out everything that was there - pencils, glasses and even plastic cups and surgical gloves. 
[picture of the printing for the Box Set]]]> 2019-05-17 14:11:57 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/361189136 Tenth Week | Monday 20/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/362570922 [FEELING SICK + PROJECT BOOK + THINKING ABOUT A DESIGN FOR THE TOILET DOOR]
Since the weekend I am feeling awful, I have a cold , it's been a while since I last felt that way, but that doesn't stop me from doing something at home, we can't stop in this last few days of work. First of all I printed some files that I had to glue in the Project Book with examples of how it will look like and I also did the Weekly Action Plan because I need to do exactly what I'll do every single day so I won't forget anything. I also started to think about a design for the door of the toilet, if someone closes the door maybe no one will know there's a work inside if there's nothing on the door, I asked someone in the class to take a picture of the closed door for me so I could make a design in Ps to see how it would look like and I thought about writing the name of the project and something like the vintage "enter here" plaques. I also thought about buying one of those plaques if perhaps I found one that I like, but meanwhile I'll keep my idea of the freestyle hand writing. One of the first things I made in my Project Book was to write the name of my project in a very cool different cursive letter and everyone that saw it really liked it so I thought I could maybe get the idea and make something like that in the door so I made one example of how it could look like in the photoshop (I'll upload the file here) - of course it won't look the same but it is just one idea. My idea is to make it with a different colour, I don't know why but every time that I think about writing the name of my project anywhere I think about the colour red and that's why the example I made it's in red, but it may also be gold it will depend on how I am feeling in the day I'll make it. I can also change things and make a different design in the day I'll make it but I needed to see how it will look like, in my opinion this is the kind of thing that you need to feel, while you are doing it you feel what you need to do, the colour you need to use, it is everything about the feelings. 
[file with the example of the design for the door] ]]> 2019-05-22 14:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/362570922 Tenth Week | Tuesday 21/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/362571062 [MAKING THE EXAMPLE OF THE FLOWERS IN THE TOILET + MAKING THE DESIGN OF THE STICKER FOR THE PAPER HOLDER]
As I was basically waiting for the Studio to get ready for the Exhibition Hang, I optimized my time doing some examples of what I want to do to glue in my Project Book and have an idea of how it will look like. I want to place some flowers inside the toilet like how I did in the example I'll upload here. I also got that time to make the design of the stickers for the paper holders, I used the same typeface that I used in the sticker for the mirror. I wasn't very patient today, I think it is because I'm feeling anxious to set up the exhibition so I did the stickers and when I printed it I saw that the text wasn't right, it has nothing to do with the phrases I'll put inside the paper holders, I wrote "Take one and try to do it" but in the papers there will be written phrases about the little pleasures of life, best feelings in the world, so you can't do it, it's just to feel, just an example of how things can be better than you think if you pay enough attention to it. When I sar it printed I thought it was too small too and I also did the background black and the letters white, but I also didn't liked that and thought that the design wasn't good enough too. I think I'll do it again tomorrow I don't think I can do better today.
[Ps file of the example of how the toilet will look with the flowers inside of it]
]]> 2019-05-22 14:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/362571062 Tenth Week | Wednesday 22/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/362571146 [WRITING THE PHRASES IN THE PAPERS + GETTING THE STICKER FOR THE MIRROR + REMAKING THE STICKERS FOR THE PAPER HOLDER]
My whole day was writing phrases in the papers, I had to make a lot of it because I don't know if there will be a lot of persons taking one of them so I have to make a lot and make a stock of papers if I need more in the days of the exhibition. Besides that the sticker for the mirror arrived and unfortunately was wrong, the sticker was mirrored and it is not for glass, it's for the mirror so it didn't need to be mirrored and I was very specific when I was talking to the lady in the print shop so I called her and she promised me she'll send it right again tomorrow morning. I also felt more inspired than yesterday so I redid the stickers for the paper holders, this time, bigger and with a better design and with the right colors, background white and the letters in black. I preferred this one because it is more sophisticated and in the right size. I think I have nothing else to say, I'm preparing everything for tomorrow and the other days. 
[picture of the design of the sticker fixed]]]> 2019-05-22 14:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/362571146 Tenth Week | Thursday 23/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/363402018 [FIRST DAY OF EXHIBITION HANG - CLEANING AND PREPARING]
Today was the first day of exhibition hang. As I got the toilet I had the problem that it was really dirty. Nobody uses there because it doesn't lock, so people mostly use it to clean brushes or pots with paint, also the walls were a little dirty with splashing ink. I also had to paint the door because it was awful on the outside. I had a Pre-Fad student to help me doing that but she left in the lunch time and can't go tomorrow. She was ok, but I think I didn't needed so much help so there was times where she had nothing to do. Besides that, I hung the clothesline and it turned out to look better than I thought, I had a talk with Marcelo and he helped me and showed me solutions, he used something called "bucha de drywall". I left everything ready for tomorrow that I'll bring the sticker and the bed sheet. The only problem I had today was that I cleaned the whole toilet and there were lots of people that wanted to clean their brushes and paint dispensers but if people do that I'll have to clean all over again so I talked to the class and asked them to not do that, I'm not messing up with their walls or works and I think that it is unfair, I don't have to clean the mess of anyone and it's really hard to clean wall paint. At the end of the day everyone come and said to me that the toilet was now good enough to be part of an artwork, I thought that was nice because I really dedicated myself to make it the best I could. 
I also forgot to say that the sticker for the mirror actually arrived today, not yesterday as the lady from the print shop said, but that's okay since I'll only glue it tomorrow, I wanted to have everything ready as it is today to glue the sticker and have no problem. This time the sticker is perfect, I'm just worried when it's time to stick in the mirror, I don't know if it's going to work because I've never done it, but we'll see, I hope everything turns out to be just fine. 
[picture of the clean toilet]]]> 2019-05-24 23:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/363402018 Tenth Week | Friday 24/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/363402030 [SECOND DAY OF EXHIBITION HANG - STICKER, BED SHEET AND TAKING THE DOOR OFF]
Today was the best day ever, I glued the sticker in the mirror, I had some problems, it was really hard to take the sticker of, for example, the letters were glued to a transparent sticker and when it comes to peeling the sticker from the sheet, the letters should come together, but many of them sticked to the paper and I could not take it off, so I had to take it out by hand, or put the transparent sticker over the top and rub it with a spatula so that everything glues right and I could manage to fix it to the mirror. Besides that there was a letter missing and I missed other two of them when I cleaned the mirror after the whole process (it had a lot of fingerprints because I needed to lean on the mirror to glue it right). The best part of it was that I actually have the letters that are missing, the other sticker - the one that was wrong - was mirrored, but the letters are "I" and "H" one of the only ones that even when are mirrored are the same, so I can bring it on monday and glue it by hand. I also hung the bed sheet I got from my grandmother and it looked PERFECT, the size, the fabric, the smell of clean clothes that scented the whole bathroom. 
After I did that I was feeling a bit lost because I didn't knew what to do with the door, I was thinking about doing something by hand, but when I talked to Michael he gave me some really precious advises, he told me that the sticker from the mirror was really professional, with the typeface and everything and if I did something by hand it had to be better or the same level as the sticker and I also had no idea from the inside and I was worried that if I did nothing in the door no one would pay attention to my work, so we decided to take of the door, at the beginning I wasn't very comfortable with the idea because I thought it would look poor without the door and I felt like I had to do something """"""bigger""""", but I rather that it looks perfect than just ok, most of the times the more information you have the worst it looks your work, and we took off the door. I regret nothing, it is elegant, when you enter the studio the first thing you see it's my work and with the projection in the sheet it will look amazing, I'm looking forward to see the projector working on monday.
As I have a lot of small details left, I made a list of things I'll need to bring on monday. Insulating tape (to cover a small details of the door); Wood clothes-peg; The papers for the paper holder + the stickers (I also have to print them); The letters that are missing (I'll bring the whole sticker so if I have another problem I can maybe fix it) and maybe the flowers for the toilet (I can let them for tuesday too, I think it is safer since it has to be there the whole Assesment) and I also need to see what I want to do with the bar that is behind the toilet, maybe put some plants tied at it, I'll see.
Now that I wrote the list I remembered some things I might need to do on Monday, some examples of how can I water the flowers, if I'll let them in the water of the toilet or maybe put them in a bag full of fresh water and ice and see how much of them I'll need to complete the whole toilet, I want it to be full. And the other thing is that I need to see the projector and do some sketches showing how I'll fix it, whether it's on the wall ("mão francesa") or the ceiling ("suporte de projetor" as it is on the studio). I need to do sketches of all of this in the Project Book, so I'll do that on Monday when I have everything ready.
[picture of the toilet without the door and with the sticker and the bed sheet on the clothesline]
]]> 2019-05-24 23:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/363402030 Eleventh Week | Monday 27/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/363818348 [THIRD DAY OF EXHIBITION HANG - PROJECTOR INSTALLATION]
It was explicit that we would have our digital materials installed today. When I arrived at EBAC this morning there was a specialized team taking care of the assemblies of digital materials such as TV's, projectors and things like that. So I waited for my turn since I need a projector for my movie, when they started installing everything I thought everything would be alright, but the problems started soon. First of all Michael asked for the company that rented the materials for projectors with USB entrys and it wasn't like that, my projector needed a DVD player to be able to play the movie. The projector was perfect, the audio was even playing thru the projector and the sound is amazing so I won't need a speaker, the real problem was the DVD player, it doesn't read any kind of video format. Bruna helped me with that and we tried to pass the file for a CD, not the USB and with the standart DVD format and it didn't worked. So we talked to Duilio and he transformed my video into 5 different formats and just one of them worked but the audio was slower than the actual movie. So I basically spent the whole day waiting for people to do things for me and I absolutely hated that, first of all the things I needed to do I did and I only got out of EBAC at 9pm waiting for Duilio to change the files for me, I left him and said that he could do it for tomorrow because I was no longer able to stay at EBAC without doing anything. In the morning I had already placed the clothes-peg in the right place, I went to the print shop to print the stickers for the paper holders and I glued it in the right place, I replaced the letters of the sticker for the mirror that fell down or that I thought it was ugly so I literally had nothing to do. Tomorrow I'll only need to place the decorative elements such as the flowers in the toilet, the trash and the plants on the bar and at the projector to try to make it look prettier. What's bothering me is the projection thing, I hope everything is fine tomorrow I believe in Duilio and he's actually helping me a lot, he knows a lot of this area and I know it will be just fine. I tried to connect it to my notebook and it works perfectly, the quality of the image is perfect and in the dvd is not as good as I like it to be. The good part is that we have this alternative, but it is to close for the deadline for me to rent some notebook and I really don't want to put mine in the installation, but if that is the only choice I'll have I guess there's no other way. Now I'll just wait to see tomorrow and enjoy the decoration part because it is the one I like the better, I'll buy my flowers and the black tape to cover the details on the door (I bought one today but it was the wrong size).
[the video of the projector working in the installation (it is a mess and I'm projecting thru my notebook so don't mind the awful environment, it won't look like that)]]]> 2019-05-27 19:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/363818348 Eleventh Week | Tuesday 28/05 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/363822399 [FOURTH DAY OF EXHIBITION HANG - DECORATING + PROJECT EVALUATION SUBMISSION + SUBMISSION OF THE PROJECT AND THE EXHIBITION]
The final day. Today I did the last details, I bought some flowers to put in the toilet, got my trash can and did put the pen in the paper holder that is with the papers without text so people can write on them. Now it is perfect, it is exactly how I wanted it to be, even better as I said yesterday. I also finished the Evaluation Document and I'll just submit my work after finishing the last details of the Project Book and I'll get the time I have left to finish some papers for the paper holder. The flowers in toilet are looking amazing I just have the problem that I'll have to chenge them for the Exhibition, but that's ok. Everything went well and Duilio got to make my video work, he's amazing, I have to thank him a lot. Now I'll make a post expalining how to turn on the projector and the DVD player and I'm ready to go. I'm excited to see the reaction of the people when they look my work. 
[video of the installation]]]> 2019-05-27 20:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/363822399 How to turn on the digital equipment in my installation. camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/364110252 There's two remote controls above the sink, the white one is for the projector and the black one is for the DVD. 
The white one you just need to press one time the power button (the blue one at the top left) to turn it on AND PRESS IT TWICE to turn it off. 
The black one is for the DVD and you need to press the power button (the red one at the top left) only once to turn it on and off, then you just need to hit the play button to the video start playing and the repeat button to keep it on loop.
The projector can took about ten seconds to turn on because the lense needs to warm a little to work. 
I'll upload a picture showing the projector and the DVD, because you need to point the remote control at the DVD so it works properly (it is a bit hard to find it because it is on the top above the projector).
Now everything is working well and you can enjoy my work! :)]]> 2019-05-28 17:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/364110252 THE PADLET ISN'T LETTING ME HIGHLIGHT MY TEXTS ANYMORE :( camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/364113510 2019-05-28 18:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/364113510 IMPORTANT! DON’T TOUCH IT! camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/364133823 You’ll turn off everything because all the power outcomes are connected. It is real, it doesn’t have light because the light of the projector is enough!]]> 2019-05-28 19:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/ch3f78j5uckx/wish/364133823