Searching for ANP in the UCSC Genome database generated many locations for me to examine. I ended up using OMIM to find the official location of the gene for ANP.
I cannot see the picture clearly, but I think the locations are quite close to each other. I had the problem before, and it was caused by the difference in the reference sequences for this protein. If the locations are apart, it may because the gene/protein has a few isoforms, which are in different locations on the chromosome.
First off, don’t you ever try to play my images.
Secondly, thanks for the insight. It was difficult for me to determine which chromosome location was the most accurate. But I figured, like you said, they were basically the same gene, but with slight variation in form and/or location.
Feelin good. Feelin great. Feelin great. Feelin good. How are you?
Orthologs are defined as genes in different species that evolved from a common ancestral gene by speciation. These genes typically retain the same function in the course of evolution, and this retention is critically important to determine the function of genes in newly sequenced genomes.
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Oh this looks so interesting. WHat are the implications of this thing?
So, last night I spent about an hour to an hour and a half generating my own sound effects to imput into my movie.
The sounds that I tried to generate are reminiscent of things that physically confine. I will have them playing with specific scenes within the video.
So, I emailed in my frist draft of the artist statement. I was unsure that it wasn’t clear enough, when I emailed it, so good thinking on Nell’s part for having us do that.
She came back with some great notes that really helped me figure out what points I needed to be a little more explicit about and things I needed to clarify.
I worked on the revisions for about half an hour and came up with some additions and edits that I think really make the statement clear and informative (in blue.)
When you look up the word “confinement” you will find things like:
So, there is a historical link between confinement and childbirth. A link that binds mother to baby. One that strengthens the story of my video.
Although, I didn’t set out to explore the mother/baby relationship in terms of birthing confinement; as I was filming I felt like the scenes between Moriah and Kaia were so fitting. As I was filming their interactions spoke volumes to me.
I look forward to including some of my findings in my artist statement so that people have an even deeper understanding of how my video and the relationship of the people in connects back to the concept I’m exploring.
I’m at home, all ready for bed. And I decided to do some idle searching for sound effects. It’s really the last, time-consuming thing I need to do for the video outside of putting the video together. So, I played around with some stuff on youtube, because it’s easy for me to convery youtube video to mp3 audio that I can manipulate in finalcut or garage band.
But all the youtube videos had crappy audio with lots of talking usually, or ambient noise that I can’t use. So, I finally resolved to just capture some audio by myself, live. I’m gonna do some research and see how the pros do it. There’s lots of tools and stuff at my dad’s house I can use. Maybe watch the video and scramble to make the sounds to fit the video. That wouldn’t be completely neccessary, but it may be fun.
I couldn’t really figure out what sounds to use in place of chains, cause that’s exactly what I think about when I think of the word confinement; so, i googled the phrase “social confinement” and I made an amazing discovery.
http://www.wsrt.net.au/seachanges/volume2/html/porter.html
This is a paper written by at student, I can’t identify where, but she’s discussing the word confinement in terms of the birthing period and the Catholic practice of confinement endured by Australian mothers in the 1950s and 1960s. Her thesis is that “Catholic mothers usually had more confinements(birthings) and as a result experienced more confinement (socio-cultural confinement).”
Some quotes I found particualy inspiring and relevant to my video:
” the socio-cultural norms encouraged, sometimes forced, Australian mothers, to live their lives confined in social interaction in ways that would be unacceptable now.”
“young girls and young women in the 1950s and 1960s were encouraged by their family, by the education system, by the media, by their religious upbringing and in their paid employment to see themselves as future wives/mothers”
The medical staff and people in general would speak of a woman’s first confinement or her second confinement, referring to the birth of her first baby or her second baby, etc. Some in the medical fraternity still use the abbreviation EDC: estimated date of confinement.
Cut Three! So excited. I must say, I love it.
The next tasks will be to go back in and do some more fading in and out with the clips, shorten the time on the first three clips, and of course add audio (a track and sound effects).
A very productive day.
I love the panes in this video. It’s short, sweet, effective, and visually interesting.
Today we went over our artist statements, which are going to due on Nov. 30th.
I’m quite excited. I’m really looking forward to making this mini, ad junct “artifact” to supplement my video. It should be alot of fun designing it.
I was inspired by a pillsbury television add to break up the panes in my video. I don’t know how that will effect the sound, but I think it would be a great way to utilize all the footage I have.
I decided to work in the TPS today, so that I can run into Calvin’s office as frequently as I need to and use some of the old Final Cut Express user manuals. I’m starting the project off fresh and pulling in all the clips I have, right now.
My next step is to figure out pane thing Tami suggested and get the video clips down to size.
Oh shit! Everything is working splendidly. I am so excited to preview this new cut. Granted, I’m about 15% of the way through since I started over from scratch, but I’m happy with the direction of things.
I just learned something new. It’s called Unlinking and linking; shortcut: option + L. I imported my quicktime movie from the first cut of the video and wanted to insert a piece of it in my new draft. Unfortunately, the audio was linked to the audio so I couldn’t move everything around freely. Calvin showed me that if I select the things I want to link/unlink I can group them or allow them to be manipulated independently of on another. There’s also a little link button, above the visual tracks to the right of the “sequence” tabs.
I think I just finished with my visual clips. So, I’m going to do a final render, export as a quicktime, upload to vimeo, and then post. Which should take about two hours all together. ugh.
I’ve got my Que Sera audio ready, with two possibly renditions to use and my video uploaded to vimeo, which should be ready to post in a half hour. I plan on getting my sound effects tomorrow.
I’m really loving this third cut of the video.
I got to class today and put in some audio so that we could experience the video with audio. I used a few sound effects from the internet.
They were not well received.
This is no surprise. I had no intention of keeping the audio and now I kind of regret putting it in there because most of my feedback was about that.
I did get concerns about whether my message was that the mother in my video was confined to the child in the video.
Well, she is. Isn’t she?
These are the questions I want to be asked.
I want my viewer to experience the visual the audio make a connection and then interpret that connection.
No, I do not want a lovey dovey mom and daughter scene. That’s boring. That’s stagnant.
I think my video has a lot of things to explore. Hair. Skin tone. Youth. Race. Mother. Daughter. Baby.
And I don’t I have to pin myself or the viewer’s thought process.
I have clear intention. To explore how the two people are confined to and by one another. And hopefully by illustrating that, viewers will come to the same realizations that I did while working on the video:
We are all confined by numerous factors in two key ways: voluntarily or involuntarily. And both ways can result in positive or negative experiences.
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Moria Chappell 'Que Sera'
I wanted a sticky sweet mother/daughter song to compliment the image and juxtapose against the sound effects. I immmediately thought of “Que Sera” by Doris Day, but that proved to be too distracting. So, I tried out the French version, and it works better for me, since I can’t understand the language but I understand the melodies and the tone.
Be with me in the approaching Finals week.
I had no idea that class was almost over. I feel like we’re 75% through with the class…as opposed to like 92%.
I wish there was a Digital Imaging II, because I would sign up in a heartbeat. I will definitely say that this has been one of my favorite classes so far at Agnes.
But enough with the sentimentals.
Right now I’m working on tracking down and producing some good audio. After taking a break from viewing the video and seeing it again just now, I’m surprised by how well it’s turned out. I can’t wait to get some audio in there.
This video uploading process sucks. It took me a good thirty minutes after class time to figure out how to export a quicktime video, rather than a final cut movie. And then I had to “wait in line” with vimeo.com, which is what all Free vimeo.com account users have to do before their video is processed and actually viewable. What a hassle. But I’m glad to have a place to view the video as it would show as a movie. Improvements to the project:Speed of clips, Addition of audio, addition of sound effects, Fade out at the end to black, shorten the fade in sequence in the beginning
