Donedonedone!

We've done it people! Today was the day of the official presentations and demonstrations and our group did really well, as usual. I'm proud of you all, proud of our work, and I'm so glad that we work so well together. As we all know, finding a functioning group where everyone does what they should is difficult, which is why it's all the more brilliant to work with you guys. Thank you for a wonderfully executed project work and I look forward to continuing working with you next year!

And Cicci, you bake the best muffins and chocolate cakes EVER.

Have a great summer everybody! Or as our lovely ghost Törnström would say.. See you on the other side! ... of the summer!

- Eve.

Blueberry cupcakes and working Semacodes

Hey you all.

We did it. We have completed a very nice guided tour through a mobile phone.

I would as "social coordinator" just want to thank you all for being such a great group to work with.

Start thinking about new cookies that I can bake for next group work.

See you tomorrow. Last day before summer. Jippiiieee!!!!!!!!!!!!

New server

Hey,

Daniel said that we could upload the files to the musis server tomorrow if nothing else works!

See you!

Finished movies

Hey guys,

all movies are to be found here:

The only thing left is now to make the semacodes work!

See you tomorrow!

When?

I know we're supposed to meet at Cecilia's place tomorrow, but did we set a specific time?

- Eva.

library books

A reminder that the books we borrowed needs to be returned on Tuesdays. I will bring mine on Monday when we are going to go through our tour.

And the book is finished.....

Update..

Wow Eva, I'm impressed to see that you have managed to complete all you movies, since it seems you must've been quite busy posting on this blog :)

Anyway, as Eva said I've come up with a solution for the converting process, but now I'm having some trouble getting the movies into the phone using semacodes and the upcode software. It doesn't work the way it should do. On the other hand, what does these days. I have mailed Spikol and hope the problem will be solved soon.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Oh, here's the finished movie for the graveyard: semacode1

More progress!

Okay! So! Today Christian put the audio file together with the flash film from Semacode 3 and we successfully tried it out on the phone, it works perfectly and looks great. So problem solved, this is working! I have also made some small background photo animations for the semacodes without any ghosts in them.

The Ropewalk: (1 min. 31 seconds)

http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=semacode4pz7.swf

The Archipelago: (1 min. 13 seconds.. and yes, I know, I know, not all the islands are the correct ones.. but I don't think anyone will really notice, and these are the pictures I had.)

http://img409.imageshack.us/my.php?image=semacode7dr1.swf

The Fisher Woman: (1 min. 41 seconds)

http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=semacode8mo5.swf

- Eve.

Semacode 6 - Done

http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=semacode6zh6.swf

4 minutes 56 seconds long.. I seem to get the length down pretty good just by chance. Hope this is okay.. Let me know if not. I need to get some sleep now.

*zzzzz*

- Eva.

Semacode 3 - Done

I sent you all an email with the .swf and .mov files for Semacode 3. (Couldn't upload the final version on the Internet because it was too big.) Please comment here with feedback and everything and anything.

Seems so strange that I worked the entire day on a file that lasts 6 minutes 40 seconds and that nobody will particularly pay attention to during the presentation. Lol. I'm off to get some food.

- Eve.

Progress!

This is how Erika's part is looking right now, including Cecilia's instructions:

http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=semacode3eb2.swf

(around 2 min. 40 seconds)

If you look at the flash file while listening to the audio at the same time, I think it's turning out pretty well.

- Eve.

Flash Stuff

Well, today I have started creating the first Flash file, which is supposed to go with the audio of Emelie and Dan. (Marketplace -> Ropewalk). This is what I've got so far:

http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=semacode3be5.swf
(it takes some time for the ghost woman to appear since I made some time for the horse sounds)

The flash file is one minute long, which means that I have to create another five minutes of animations since Daniel advised us not to loop things. I will post the progress of the files as I go along, Christian you can do the same.

Oh and Chris - to make the video go slower, I slowed it down to 5 frames/second.

Let me know what you think!

- Eva.

Spikol Meeting

Spikol Meeting tomorrow 15 maj 13:30

First sound recording

I have gone through the soundtracks and I think we need to redo some of them, you are spitting in my ear he he.


So if we can agree on a time on Monday you can listen to your selfs, because on some files there was just one or a few words that where messed up by your spitting.

Over all it sounded good you all kept a nice sound level.

I will record Dan tonight and voice manipulate the files that does not need editing to Monday.

//Tessa

The old mastcrane in Karlskrona.

In connection to the building process of new docking constructions in Karlskrona, was also the magnificent mast crane built. This creation of stone has become the doubtless most characteristic building in this naval town - admired and famous far beyond the borders of Sweden.

The large mast crane was meant to be built already in the middle of the 18^th century and is mentioned first in a letter to the king in 1749, when it was decided to, instead of a regular crane; build this mast crane of stone. The price for this was approximately 6800 riksdaler. War and other obstacles got in between and the final drawings, made by the architect Fredrik Blom, were not approved until the 16^th of March 1803. Johan Lindström was later on responsible for the construction. The material was stone, except for the crane head, which was made of wood, under a copper roof. When the crane was finished, it stood 42 metres high and 12 metres across at the very bottom. It had nine storeys and one had to climb 200 steps to get to the top.

The mast crane was earlier used when putting the masts in place on the ships. To do this, 96 people manned four capstans, two on the first storey, and one on the second.

Today, the crane is a museum piece, and many contracts of ship-buildings, both military and civilian, have been signed in the conference room on the second floor. The interior of the conference room reflect a marine environment. From the crane head, one has a great view of both the shipyard and the town.

There is a story about a little boy, who got chased by a non-commissioned officer up in the crane. According to the story the boy should have yelled: “I have suffered, and you have waited a long time, open up, Satan, and you will get another little gull in your peak.”

A small update

Today we all had a meeting and we set some future dates for our project to work with. Tomorrow we'll be meeting up at 13.00 to record as much of Christian (Törnström) and Cecilia (general information voice) as possible, then we'll be meeting on Friday to record the rest of the voices. This will give us time to work with the sound files and Flash animations for next week. We've dealt up the work as such:

• Emelie is working on the layout for the book in InDesign
• Me and Christian work with Flash animations and I work with the contemporary pictures for the book
• Therese creates the sound files of the characters that are played by the rest of us and also works on the book
  
• Cecilia works with the old pictures on overhead paper for the book
  

Regarding the book, we want to be done with all the text and pictures for it on the 16th of May. The semacodes will be included in it later. And we're counting on being completely done with the project on May 21-22. That will give us a couple of days to work through any glitches and to test the tour ourselves.

See you all tomorrow!

- Eva.

second script

You should have received the second script. If not let me know..


read it please ....

Shipyard Wall

In the first fortification plan of the city, which was created in 1683, it was said that the entire city of Karlskrona would be surrounded by a great solid wall with more than fifty bastions. The reason for building such fortifications was to protect the naval fleet and the military buildings which had been started up in southern Trossö and Lindholmen in the 1680s. But then, as per usual, the question of cost and finance came up, as well as the amount of time it would take to build something as grand as this, and the plans changed. It was agreed upon that the wall would only encompass the docks and the shipyard, separating the military part of Karlskrona from the civil areas.

They finally agreed on four bastions and two towers connected through walls that would go straight through Trossö from the east to the west. Karl XI approved of the plan and they began building bastion Aurora to the far east and bastion Drottningshall to the far west by the bridge to Lindholmen. Between these two by the clocktower lay bastion Wachtmesiter and between it and bastion Aurora they created a four-sided bastion named Achilles. West from the bastion Wachtmeister they were supposed to build a bastion named Hector and north from Drottningshall they had plans for bastion Eolus, but both were never built.

The walls were built by the help of (Kronobergs- and Kalmarknektar? Knights?) and war prisoners from Russia and Poland, who helped for a cerain amount of money. The work went slowly, mostly because of a lack of economic resources. These were the times of the Nordic War after all, between the years of 1700-1721. However, the project eventually became very successful and the chief architect and supervisor Carl Hårleman praised it when he said that "the wall is a reflection on strength and beauty of all that Rome managed to accomplish in the happiest of its days". Large parts of the wall can still be seen in Trossö up until this day.

Trivia: The pavements around the shipyard wall were so bad that Gustav the III's carriage once got stuck in one of its holes when he was on his way to the spectacle house (where the old theatre was later built) and he was aided and set free by an enthusiastic crowd of people.

Next meeting: 8/5 10-12 in delta room.

Me and Eva turned up to Spikol’s meeting by it did not turn out as we thought. We did not get the remaining phones and we are going to get technical information on Tuesday.

However we did get some ideas on how we can create a flash movie with the ghost. We also got the idea from Spikol to use overhead paper (at Bokia 15 kr/st) and print one of the pictures on it, either the old or the new one, and then lay it over the other picture. I guess that we have to try and see which way that will work best.

He also wanted us to create a story that was engaging with the audience, so we were thinking about bringing in Lisa Schröder, and make the audience choose the ending of the story.

We also need to meet and construct a schedule for the last 3 weeks. So that we have time in the end to make changes if that is needed.

I will send out another draft of the script this weekend so that everyone can go over it and make there changes. I am still missing some translations from the shipyard book.

Websites to check out:

http://www.thirdview.org/3v/home/index.html

http://semacode.org/

Images & Sounds Part V

We also recorded some sounds inside the Marine Museum of seagulls, waves and workers, but since it's difficult to find a site that will allow me to upload them, I will just send them to you instead! They work with RealPlayer and Nokia Media Player which comes with our lovely new phones. Tomorrow we have a meeting with Daniel Spikol which only I and Therese will be able to attend, so I hope the rest of you will be grateful for it! :P We think it's going to go well anyway, Therese has printed out the script and the great ghost photos Emelie has made, so we're ready and organized. We'll ask Daniel about the semicodes, which is our main concern since we want to use them in combination with our audio files. That's all for now!

- Eva.

Images & Sounds Part IV

Inside the German Church

All the things that Törnström has made. Probably with some help from others, too. The caretaker said that the dove - see the altar - was the last thing Törnström made in the church. He suspected that Törnström might have had something to do with the benches too. He was a nice chatty guy!

Images & Sounds Part III

The Ropewalk (not the Rope Factory as we thought!)

Images & Sounds Part II

Inside the Museum

Figureheads

Images & Sounds Part I

Here are the pictures that me & Tessa took yesterday at the Marine Museum and the ones I took at the German Church today.

Islands

Ghooost toooo

And here he is Mr Johan Törnström

I'm a Ghost, what are you?

Okej so here is a sketch for Mr and Mrs Ghostly, I just pick any background so you would see that they are transparent.





Emme

Coordination and Assignments

Hello my dear people. Yesterday I sent out a bunch of pictures that we took on our walk around the city, I hope everyone got them. Please work in Photoshop with the pictures that are relevant to your location in combination with the old photos Emelie has sent out. For next week I would like us all to show a couple of samples of pictures that we could use for our book - and the set deadline for our book is currently the 16th of May, let's not forget that - and the people who got texts from the Shipyard book, please look through them, translate what's interesting and post it up here. Let's work on our script and make it as ready as possible so that we can seriously start recording voices and sounds next week.

I also got in touch with the caretaker of the German Church yesterday, and I'm going to go see him on Thursday at 13.30. Any pictures I will take in there will be sent out to you. And as for the kind of ghost we want, Emelie, my idea is to go with something like the second picture, but something a bit more transparent. We want Törnström & co to look like real people, just a little bit.. ghosty.

- Eve.