The Iceberg Agency was able to actually go in to Macie’s place and talk to Suzy, one of the owners, about some of our ideas. Suzy also gave us the go ahead to film whatever we need to at the store as well as interview her for a biography. We also asked her about some of the customers that regularly come to the shop. We wanted to know if we could talk to them about writing a story about them and getting  some photographs. We think also attaching an audio recording of these customers to the photo that will play at the viewers control. Then the viewers not only can read about the customer but also hear his or her voice and their character. This will give the viewer another insight to the human being. Max, Jadyn, Maggie and I also discussed with her when the gift drive would begin. Suzy informed us she was planning on working on them soon. We now have a plan to meet with her next Wednesday to get video of her writing on the mittens and hanging them up. Overall, we are excited with our progress and can’t wait to get to know Suzy and her customers more.

This week I had to complete a presentation on an interactive website that I thought was compelling. I researched a website that was published by the Washington Post and covered the story on Peurto Rico and the loss of power after hurricane Maria. Throughout the presentation, I had to point out the media used throughout the website and how it worked together to tell a compelling story. I also had to figure out what I would change about the website as a whole to improve it or that I think would benefit from it personally. After class as a group, we went to visit Macie’s Place and talk to one of the founders to get permission to do interviews and get video and photo content of the store. We’re planning on going to Macie’s Place next week to start getting video and photo of the toy drive for kids. Individually I am trying to figure out what website platform we should use to execute this interactive website that gives us the flexibility of using visuals and data visualizations. Seeing some of the interactive website presentations this week did give some inspiration on how we can put together our interactive website.

This week, we finalized our schedule and made lists of things we think it would be cool to include in our final website. Tuesday morning some of the group members went to Maci’s Place to meet the owner and check out the store. They also asked permission to take photo’s, video’s, audio, etc for the project. I was unable to make it Tuesday morning, so on my own time, I am stopping into Maci’s Place this week to introduce myself as a project group member as well as getting to know the owner and to get a tour of the store.  Hopefully, this will help me get a better understanding of what their intentions are with the store and I can build a personal connection with the organization. So far, our team has equally worked together to stay on track and get things done. I have a good feeling we will work together well this semester.

This week at Iceberg agency we did a lot of planning for the upcoming weeks. We had some scheduling conflicts come up so we had to switch directions with our topic of focus. We decided to focus on Macie’s place which we’re all excited for. I helped make the schedule for the rest of the semester. We planned when we would have each aspect of the project finished and when we would do interviews, research, etc. We are planning on visiting Macie’s place on Tuesday to meet the owners and talk to them about what their restrictions are with us for this project. We plan to start working on the biography and pictures first before we get into the more complicated stuff. I mainly helped with brainstorming the schedule and ideas on what we’ll do. There wasn’t much individual work to do this week since we haven’t started any research. I look forward to meeting the owners and going to the location to see what we’re focusing on. I think this idea will work out better timing wise because we have more time to execute our plan versus the other one which would have been very rushed together. The clothing drive won’t be for awhile so we have time to focus on all the aspects of the project.

Weekly meeting: hour or two after class

Sept. 24-30

• Tues 10:45: Go to Macie’s Place
• Ask the owners about photo, video, stories from unique customers, her story
• After class: plan out exactly what we want to do

Oct. 1-7

• Interview time set and done
• Photos and videos

Oct. 8-14

• 360 trial run at weekly meeting and go to the store
• Begin working on written pieces
• Research for infographics/interactive

Oct. 15-21

• Start pursuing the side stories
• Written pieces ~mostly~ done
• Pitch infographics/interactive and plan

Oct. 22-28

• Messing around with website and how we want it set up

Oct. 29-Nov. 4

• Make sure we have an interactive stuff down/know how to do it

Nov. 5-11

• Start/work on multimedia video thing

Nov. 12-18

• Clothing drive around this time
• Get video, edit and compile videos

Nov. 19-25

• Thanksgiving break

Nov. 26-Dec. 2

• Finalize EVERYTHING

Dec. 3-8

• Work on presentation/more finalizing

Dec. 10-14

• present

The Iceberg Agency is excited to say that we will be working with Macie’s Place this semester to produce an interactive website including biographies on the owners, video interviews with regular customers and an interactive map of poverty in Nebraska. The group is excited to work with Macie’s Place mainly because there are more outlets and time for us to work with. Unfortunately, because of conflicting schedules we were unable to work on the Market to Market run. Although it would have been a really interesting story visually, it would be too hard and too much pressure to be able to get all of our videos as work done in one day. Now that we have decided what our project will be, we worked on a schedule for how we want the project to go and when we want everything done. We plan on going on Tuesday to visit with the owners of Macie’s Place to discuss their limitations as well as any regular customers who would be willing to speak to us for this project. Overall, a very successful week for The Iceberg Agency and we hope to continue getting things done in time for our presentation at the end of the semester.

This week our team planned out a lot for our project. We finally decided on Maci’s Place, a local nonprofit organization near downtown Lincoln. We decided that the Market to Market relay would be so fun and interesting, but just wouldn’t work with our schedules and we were nervous we wouldn’t be able to get everything we need and only had one chance at the one-time event for the year.  We created a schedule for the rest of the semester to conduct interviews, research information and more. We also made a list of different things we would like to have on our final website for Maci’s Place. It would be really cool to have an area with headshots of employees and managers with a little bit of background information on them, an interactive graph on their donations, an interview video, video or photos of the store and clothing drive, audio, 360 videos and an Adobe Spark video welcoming you when opening the site and talking about the history of the organization and what their fundamental purpose is. I think our group has done an excelled job working together so far, and hope that we can continue to agree and equally work on the project together through out the semester.

As a group, we decided to do our project over Macie’s Place instead of the Market to Market Relay. As a group, we wouldn’t all be able to participate in getting media for the Market to Market Relay as we realized some conflicts when planning for the event. I helped contribute to the group discussion to come up with what we should do for the up and coming weeks for our project. It was decided that a visit to Macie’s Place will take place on Tuesday to meet the founders and get permission to get video and photo of the store. It was also decided that we will stay at least a half hour or an hour after class on Wednesdays so we can discuss what we have accomplished both as a group and individually for the project. As of right now, there isn’t a lot the group or I can so at this point, we are just waiting to hit the ground running after Tuesdays meeting at Macie’s Place.  We did make a lot of progress planning wise, the tentative schedule is planned out so we make a decent amount of progress each week. I’m looking forward to seeing where this project will go.

This week at Iceberg agency we put together our three ideas for the pitch in class. Previously to meeting for to put the power point together we each chose a topic to further research. The topic that I chose didn’t have too much information on it online so I wasn’t able to find many exciting things for it. In the future I probably would’ve done some more research such as finding reviews of it online or going into the actual establishment to get a better idea of what I should know about the place. When we met to create our power point I came up with the idea to go through each pitch and decide how we would relate the idea to the final project. I thought of the idea to do an interactive map of the relay race for our first pitch which would be on the website. Some challengers we encountered were narrowing down which ideas we would pitch and how we would complete all the portions of the project with the ideas that we came up with. We were able to narrow it down to one of our ideas and I’m excited about the prospect of completing an entire multi media project based on it.

This week at Iceberg Agency we presented our ideas for the semester long project to our fellow classmates, Prof. Rick Alloway and other professors in the journalism college. Overall, our presentation was received well by the audience but there were two glaringly obvious options for our project based on reactions. The two crowd favorites were Market to Market Relay and Macie’s Place. I feel that Market to Market interactively would be more fun to create because we plan to have an overview of the trail for the race and then pinpoints at each checkpoint with 360 video and interviews there. Along with the race there is also a costume aspect in which the winner of the costume contest gets to run for free at next year’s race. The only fault with that one is that it’s all in one day so we would have to plan out exactly what we wanted to do. The other option, Macie’s Place would not be difficult to do since there are several outer lying stories we could utilize to tell the story of Macie’s Place and how it helps the Lincoln Community. Overall, it was a successful week for the Iceberg Agency and hope for another successful week while planning out one of these stories.