As Gabby wrote in her post, yesterday, we met with Jane at the Digital Media Center and she was incredibly helpful. She explained to us that the best way to tackle this project is to first gather all of the materials that we want to include in our movie (she described them as ingredients which was a good way to think of it). Once we have all of the materials we want to use–pictures, documents that our class has put online, music and video, we need to write a script and put together a basic storyboard. Then we can check out a recording device or use the recording studio at the DMC to record our script, then one of the women at the DMC will help us put all of this into movie form. She affirmed that no more than 5 minutes was a good length for our movie, and made sure that we understood how long it can take to edit a movie–this means that it is going to be really important for us to get moving on getting all of the “ingredients” for our movie.

With time being a big concern, we split up the work for the movie by themes. We decided this was an equitable way of dividing the work. We are going to focus more on the memory of Dick Dowling in Houston than on the battle of Sabien Pass and Dowling’s life, so Adam is the only member of our group who will be focusing on those topics. I am responsible for gathering all of the materials necessary for our discussion of the rededication of the statue in the 1990s. Fortunately, a lot of those materials are already online thanks to the library assignments, but I also will have to do more independent research, in particular, I am going to try to get in touch with the Dick Dowling Irish Heritage group in Houston. That being said, we all want our scripts drafted and materials gathered by April 8–we then are going to exchange drafts and edit each others’ drafts and meet on April 11 to get working on the movie.

Right now, the major thing that I have done to get moving on my project is to create a dropbox account and to make sure that the group has all of my contact information. This weekend my goal is to go through the Dowling archives that we have put online thanks to the Library Assignments and to go through the Dowling archives that the Houston Public Library has, so that I can get a good idea of what materials I already have access to and what materials I will need to find myself.

Overall, I think that our group is in a really good place, and I’m really excited to be getting to work on this project!

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