Reminder: CHECK BACKGROUND SOUND IN INTERVIEWS !!! (go somewhere quiet!!!)
Also: charge camera battery
call elle, another interview?
e-mail class brady (will he let me interview again briefly?)
etc.. purple still images

Been trying to think of more ideas for this.. how to sketch a proper picture. I'm thinking more about narrative, what story i want to tell.

consider: still images
audio-need to check out audio recorder next weekend (or during week, depends)
more video needed-- send e-mails and try and schedule interviews
in class: have video, etc, have more firm concepts in mind.

Today at my interviews I learned a lot of very interesting things. I had to ask questions and I realized how important these questions are.. often all you need to get someone started talking is a simple question (And it's hard to get them to stop!) Of course i am still trying to contact more people... some are harder to get in touch with then others.. and of course learning so many things about purple in the process.. who knew it was such a color with such history and dynamic aspects? i guess ill never see purple the same anymore! now i just need to focus on what other information i want and gathering this information, send out some more e-mails and try and set up interviews or get some other ideas together. purple power!

Setting up interviews and getting ready for preparation. Also been thinking a lot about the structure of the narrative and how I want to connect my various aspects of the project-- and what message I want to convey in the connection. i've decided on a framework and I have a few interviews set up already and a bunch in process of being set up. So far so good! I've decided I want to frame my piece with the personal - the every day college student. I found someone who is obsessed with purple and she would make a great frame to encompass the larger ideas of religion, culture and etc of that aspect of the exploration. I still need to sequence this more on paper and figure out if I can properly portray this personal aspect (vs. meaning- the fact that people love purple as purple and the idea that purple has all t his historical meaning etc) so I want this to comment on that which is cool because I hadn't thought about that before. as director it's pretty neat to realize how much freedom and creative flexibility there is here!! which is always a plus. im finding purple to be more dynamic then i thought -- and im learning all of this stuff about purple which is all very interesting that i never knew before. i also seem to be becoming more 'aware' of the color everywhere since this project, noticing w hen pepole are wearing purple and wondering why, which is kind of intereesting personal interaction with this project. thinking and blogging has really helped me clarify thoughts. and today i even imported some video! so its not as hard as i thought. tomorrow i have a bunch of interviews so tonight i am gonig to "prep" myself and what questions etc I need to prepare them for their interview (and myself, knowing what to ask and how to place camera)

Sequence preliminary sketch ~~~

(still image(s) and audio? a brief introduction)
(Personal frame)
science figure
religious figure.
cultural figure.
religious.
cultural.
(other- still researching)
(personal frame end note)
(still image and audio? a brief conclusion)

Purple signifigance in aquatic origins.. dye ! (marine biology)

A dictionary defines purple as “any of a group of colors with a hue between that of violet and red” and as a “symbol of royalty or high office.” Historically, the color purple has been associated with royalty and power, but the secret of its power lies in the glands of tiny shellfish creatures.

The earliest archaeological evidence for the origins of purple dyes points to the Minoan civilization in Crete, about 1900 B.C. The ancient land of Canaan (its corresponding Greek name was Phoenicia, which means “land of the purple”) was the center of the ancient purple dye industry.

“Tyrian Purple,” the purple dye of the ancients mentioned in texts dating back to about 1600 B.C., was produced from the mucus of the hypobranchial gland of various species of marine mollusks, notably Murex. It took some 12,000 shellfish to extract 1.5 grams of the pure dye. Legend credits its discovery to Herakles, or rather to his dog, whose mouth was stained purple from chewing on snails along the Levantine coast. King Phoenix received a purple-dyed robe from Herakles and decreed the rulers of Phoenicia should wear this color as a royal symbol.

http://pffc-online.com/mag/paper_history_shellfish_royalty/

I realize now I have more research to do in terms of whom else / what other type of focus I want to have in the film- if its a general exploration of purple from various perspectives ... there are other areas i could explore.

More working on material today and thinking. I got some great ideas for my focus in my particular part and I even got a few minutes of some great footage! I'd like to learn how to use imovie better so this is my focus right now..I want to be able to really make this work. So right now I'm working on organizing how I want the film to go sequence wise, been making a sort of sketch, sent a bunch of e-mails to some religious groups about possible interviews for perspectives on purple in religion/culture so hopefully (fingers crossed!) ill get some replies. this project is starting to really excite me!!! (learning how to use my own digital camera.. and I even used a tripod today.. I even impressed myself!! haha..!! I felt like a professional, well, sort of ) but anyway it was progress. definitely.
excited to talk to my group tomorrow a little more about our group project and how other's are going and etc.

The large, easy-to-read number "5" in the lower right corner on the back of the bill, which helps those with visual impairments distinguish the denomination, has been enlarged in the new $5 bill design and is printed in high-contrast purple ink.

from the US Bureau of engraving and printing on facts about 5 dollar bill: (why purple?)
• The background color is light purple in the center of the bill which blends into gray near the edges.
• An arc of purple stars surrounds the portrait and The Great Seal on the front of the bill.
• On the back of the bill, a larger, purple number “5” appears in the lower right corner to help those with visual impairments to distinguish the denomination.
• Small yellow “05”s are printed to the left of the portrait

as the why purple question seems to a be a mix of trying to be more euro trendy and for counterfit issues, seems to be a lot of public opinion about the color- some hate it (many do!) but why? some think its cheap, purple is gaudy and childish silly, unreal, fake aspect? money= not colorful. color role here.

The reason why the colour purple is used during Great Lent is because the Bible tells us that Pilate and his soldiers placed a purple robe on Jesus, just before His crucifixion. (Mark 15:16-20) "...they put on Him a purple robe. Then they said, Hail, King of the Jews!" (John 19:1-5).

Okay doing some research on purple and want to put down ideas/ information about research. It is very interesting how purple is used in different contexts. Purple:
5$ bill
purple heart military honor
purple as royalty, mourning in thailand, nobility and spirituality. purple as an "ethnic" color ~ used in interpretive dance and other religious ceremonies.
purple flowers, orchids, lilacs, violets
purple can boost a mood as a very invigorating color
The Color Purple is the first African American, woman-authored, epistolary novel-- embodies many radical ideas womanist feminist and sexual
Julius Caesar only allowed to wear purple, royalty and VIP
painters use purple for virgin mary, spirituality connotations
also: interesting youtube videos portraying purple: i saw one ethnic video, one highlighting purple's other dimension qualities and another just for fun purple video, all interesting insights into the color.
I figure hte best way to figure out how I want to do a video on color is to find out about the color-- in that way I can make a good analysis in how to portray it and what to document ..
terminology: purple haze, purple prose, purple cow
combination of hot red and cool blue
mystical and spiritual properties?
what does the Church think of/ a priest./ when he thinks of purple?
What about a Rabbi? does purple work the same here?
Muslim/buddhist/hindu/ ? special clothes?
purple in the military; the purple heart.
what about an artist/ purple...? how are these two views different/similiar; aka religious vs artistic and are they somehow related ..? does color allow for this creative exploration, unity of these ideas? i wonder what is similiar.. and fashion.