Final Project - Resorts of the North East Kingdom

Final Project Synopsis

For our final project, Chris and I chose to interview the co-owner of Jay Peak resort and Burke Mountain, Bill Stenger, about the advancements that have been done with each resort and the ones that are planned for the making in order to improve the entertainment in the North East Kingdom. Aside from a recorded interview of Bill, we plan to use pictures of Burke Mountain and Jay peak and of the kinds of people who are the demographic for these resorts and areas.

Video #2 Write-up

The library faculty has expected making changes in their part of the building for a while now.

Their main objective has been to clear out most of the books in the library in order to make more room for something else. The only problem is that they haven’t completely figured out what they want to do with the leftover space.

The staff has been discarding (getting rid of) all the books in the library that don't have much importance anymore. The process consists of marking the books as discarded through the web system, stamping the word "discarded" on the back page of the book, and by covering the bar code with black marker, so that it is no longer visible for people to scan in the Lyndon State library. The stamping of the word "discard" is shown in the beginning of the movie.

As the books have been taken away and discarded, the shelves of each floor (more specifically the second floor) in the library have been left empty. The faculty continues to discard and shift the books, still not positively knowing what to do with the leftover space yet.

Librarian Garret Nelson sheds light on the situation, "Primarily, we’re looking at the next few years to create the learning commons, and what this is is having the academic support units such as tutoring, writing center, and advising." Says Nelson. "We hope to have us all in one place helping students." He then adds. He explains that these ideas still need to be approved.

The process of discarding began in the middle of the summer of 2013. There is still much more discarding and shifting to do until the project is complete.

According to Nelson, it is common for most school libraries to have "learning commons" in the library center. He learned this by visiting most of them. He predicts that the intended project he and the rest of faculty has will take approximately two years. Before the project can go any further, the faculty needs to keep a close eye on what books are being used in the library, and take out whatever is not being used. This will create more space for the librarians to work with.

The librarians hope for this project to have a positive outcome. A bigger and more advanced learning center will give the students at LSC a better welcoming to the school and promote available assistance if any of them are in need of it.

Lyndon State College Library Changes- Video Project 2

Video Project 2 Synopsis

Chris and I plan to create a journalistic narrative about our school's library and their plan to add more study space for the students.
We will record one of the faculty members from the library and ask them questions about their plans of shifting bookshelves with the goals of creating more study space. We also plan on including sound from our own narration as well.
We will be using a video recorder for this project, along with our own voice recorder in order to record any voices more effectively.

Casino Night video project 400-word story

The first reaction Chris and I had when we walked into the Casino Night at Lyndon State College was that hardly anyone was there. We were already informed that a company was being paid to come in early and train the students and teachers. When we arrived around 6 pm, hoping to get a glimpse of the training, we noticed no one was even there. The CAB director was on the phone with the company helping them with directions to campus. Chris and I decided to leave and show up a little later, hoping that the even would be up and running when we returned. The training ended up starting at 7 pm. CAB pushed the event to 8 pm since they had originally planned on the even being at 7. When we came back there were different stations set up with Lyndon state faculty members at each of them, controlling the games. There was no issue filming without getting the approval from the faculty members, but there was hardly enough people there to participate in the games. The room was decorated very professionally. There was a long table towards the back of the large room with all sorts of refreshments. There was also a collection of cool prizes for people to win over the course of the night, such as a kindle and a keurig coffee maker. Chris and I were surprised at how expensive these prizes were, and were curious how no would find this event appealing enough to show up.

As time went on more people were showing up. The most popular game seemed to be black jack; considering that was the game every one was going to first (although it could’ve been because it was the first station you see when you walked inside.) We worried that as we filmed people playing the games our camera wasn’t picking up enough natural sound. We tried to put the camera as close to the games as they were being played as we could, in order to pick up the sound easier. When we were editing the film clips we realized we had a great natural sound, especially when we filmed the spin wheel of the game roulette. The sound of the ball on the spin wheel is very distinct. The narration added to our video was scripted by ourselves before we edited the video. This narration accompanied the video by giving the viewers a brief idea of what happened at the event. Our conclusion of the event was that the lack of participants was unfortunate, because the casino night itself was a clever idea and both CAB and the casino game company seemed to have put a lot of effort into it. Chris and I were glad to have witnessed the event and hope that if casino night happens again in the future at LSC it has a bigger turn out.

Lyndon State College Casino Night- Video Project