AII: PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEWS
As the AFS Curriculum Committee Chair, I led the Professional Interviews project designed to highlight industry professionals discussing why fine art foundations skills are useful in their current work. This project resulted in 4 montage media pieces, one for each core AFS course, and in footage of 9 individual interviews that could be used by course revision SME’s to enhance curriculum and reinforce student motivation in their degree pursuits.
The scope of these interviews started out very broad however, as a result of a concerted effort to prove the value in this project, we were able to get a budget to shoot 5 remote interviews of designers and artists around the country and 4 Pittsburgh based interviewees. In addition to managing this process, my tasks involved reaching out to OPD's, AOPD's and Ai PR reps through which we achieved much of our interviewee list. We determined our interviewees from a wide range of possibilities through the review of their work based on project objectives and wrote interview questions with regard to their expertise. We gained permission to shoot on site at Digital Domain in LA and had the opportunity to show footage from mainstream films such as Tron: Legacy. I reviewed, edited and design directed rough drafts of these videos throughout shooting and production.
Over the course of this project, I developed an excellent working relationship with Curriculum and our committee worked very closely with Curriculum/Production to ensure that we achieved our intended objectives. This project demonstrates a key attribute in emerging educational learning environments through real world application of learning objectives and course competencies.