Multimedia PreProduction meeting

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Multimedia Pre-Production meeting

• Welcome to the first full pre/production Crew
  Meeting
• Well 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.

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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

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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

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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)
• FISHhttp//www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/bs52

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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

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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

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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

• 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_at_Home Head A/V Forest Glick
• Harvard_at_Home A/V Assistant Rudy Hypolite
  (4-7435)
• Animators
• Flash Designer/Training Leigh Stimolo
• Flash Designer Cheryl Vaughan

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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

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Pre Production Camera Operators

• TECH MEDIA SPECIALIST/INSTRUCTIONAL LAB TECHS
• Create Shot List (_at_ least 2-3 shots of
  everything)
• Attend Equipment Orientation given by Production
  Manager camera ( lighting, audio)

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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, 169 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)

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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

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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.