Project 6a Advice

For Wednesday 3/7
Collect at least 15 minutes of video: I would recommend getting more than this though. I would try to find an activity that you could get a half hour of footage from or more. Just because you film for an hour doesn't mean that you will have to use it, but if you only get 15 minutes of footage and 12 minutes of it is hard to hear then you'll have to hope that those last 3 are really really good. By taking more footage you are going to make your life easier. Getting an hour of an interesting activity on film is easy trying to write a paper on 15 minutes of boring or inaudible footage is hard. So get a good amount of data on film choose the best part and use that.


Index: You should have an entry at least every minute, more than that is better though and at some parts you might want to do every 10 seconds. If you include entries less than every minute that will be too infrequent. Also don't do the index based on the minute add entry at the points were something interesting was said or done.

1:05 Ben points at knot
1:30 Kathrine takes rope and starts to instruct Ben
1:45 Ben uses cool orienting gesture at rope
1:55 Kathrine gives bask rope to Ben
2:45 Kathrine uses fictive description of rope
2:55 Points at parts of rope while describing function
3:20 Shows knot to Hutchins

Something like this would be good

Detailed analysis: on a clip or clips that total at least 30 seconds do a detailed analysis like the analysis in project 4. Also include information like gesture orientation and the participants interaction with artifacts. I will post the examples that we looked at in class to help provide some guidance on this