Monday, September 10, 2012

Peer Support Group

I'm going to be posting which general category I feel my capstone might belong in, and what tools I think I might end up using.

General Category: Video, Web, Culinary arts
Tools & Technologies: Final cut, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver?, HTML/CSS

Panda Powell

The Big Picture

In class, we were paired off and told to discuss our capstones/capstone ideas. I feel that I would have benefited more from the exercise if I had any idea what I really wanted to do for my capstone at the time of the discussion. Since all I had was an overarching subject (baking) that I wanted to work with, I couldn't really give my partner much information. I can see how it would be useful, though, and I did get a couple ideas from my partner (such as a baking show podcast type thing), so it wasn't entirely a bust. It might be worthwhile for me to try doing this exercise again in the future once I have a more solid idea for my capstone.

Panda Powell

Monday, September 3, 2012

Capstone Ideas

I haven't decided what I'm going to do my Capstone on, so I'll be listing three ideas. They're all pretty vague at this point. I'm trying to come up with ways to make a link between the skills I picked up in college and baking (culinary baking). My ideas are pretty vague right now, and I feel like I'd really need to expand on all of them before they'd be capstone worthy.

1. Some sort of video, but not a cooking show type of thing. I was thinking of making something similar to a speed painting, but with some sort of really fancy dessert instead. Maybe even venture into making things with fondant.

2. Edible games. It sounds weird. An example of what I mean would be, say... An edible game of chess, where you've got mini cupcakes and chess pieces made out of fondant or icing or something on top. Maybe I could design my own game rather than redesigning one.

3. I could brand myself. With this, I could create a website (& logo) for myself that would include a gallery of desserts that I've made, an area for recipes I've created, a blog, and a place for cooking with Panda videos.

Some things that inspired me... my love of baking, a fondness for watching speed painting videos on youtube, the cooking bloggers that I follow (50+), and a general love of games.

-Panda