JazzFest 48

Month: April 2016

4/19/16 Update and Questions

I’m diving into creating my project website and so far it’s going very well. To my surprise, I am struggling with a few minor stylistic things that have come up as a result of working in a digital medium. In a traditional essay, if I were to quote an interview (or author), I might say, “As jazz director, Professor Tim AuBuchon, explains…” once then say, “As AuBuchon notes,” every time after. However, I’m wondering if I should do this on every page I make since readers will surly be bouncing around and not reading this in a linear style. Normally, I would say this is repetitive and poor writing (I already said he was the jazz director, no need to say it again and again), but it seems kind of necessary given the medium we’re working with. Any thoughts?

4/12/16

The past couple weeks have been a little crazy with NCUR and being sick, but I’ve made a lot of progress.

I went back to the special collections/archives and found a few more JazzFest related things. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much that will be very useful in my project. I have been going through the Echo articles and pulling out a lot of great information, perspectives, and images that I’m really excited to be able to incorporate.

I also got ahold of the current and previous PMA historians and got permission to use promotional videos and pictures from JazzFest 45, 46, and 48. I’ve also been trying to edit short excerpts from the audio recording of JazzFest 33 (2001).

Over the next week and a half, my plan is to really dive into this project and get a solid draft of my project site running. As I’ve mentioned, things have been extraordinarily hectic lately, so this may be less polished than I had hoped, but after this week, I’ll have a little more time to devote to completing and revising the site to something I can be proud of.

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