Rent Advanced A/V Equipment from Macaulay

Documentarians and multimedia creators! Macaulay has some pretty sweet equipment available for loan, should you find that your smartphones aren’t enough.

Simply fill out the form at http://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/doit/av-request-form/. Make sure you do so 3 business days in advance of the day you’ll need the equipment.

***NOTE*** Please only use equipment that you are comfortable using. I can’t offer any support for the equipment, so you are responsible for familiarizing yourself with whatever tools you borrow.

NYC Landmark Presentation Topic Details

My group and I (Ashley Dominic, Sherilyne Co, and Samson Zachariah) are doing a multimedia presentation pertaining to the Macy’s on Herald Square. Our presentation will consist of a documentary-styled video as well as a New York Times-styled newspaper article displaying our research from the combined perspective of both a historian and a consumer. Our presentation will focus on multiple aspects of Macy’s’ impact on urbanization and industrialization in New York City, as well as its popularization of department stores in a new age of consumer culture. We want to focus on Macy’s’ appeal to the middle class as well as its revolutionary contributions to the societal structure at the time. Our presentation will also delve into the change in hands of ownership of the corporation and examine the architecture of the building. We aspire to take a couple of the aspects enlisted above and especially develop them in our presentation.

Landmark Presentation

Teddy Roosevelt’s Home/Museum (Aditya, Maggie, Malka)

After we visit the museum and learn more about Teddy Roosevelt, we plan to choose one aspect from his life and focus on that. We will choose one of these aspects and discuss the substance of that specific aspect and Teddy Roosevelt’s influence on it(i.e. trusts, crime, etc.) We will combine the historical research with the content of his life, contribution, impact, and archival images, and present it in a documentary format. Alternatively, we may discuss the evolution of the block over 100 years and consequently, present it using digital maps and timelines.

Class Trip Idea

We can go to the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side as a class; it’s one of the places where immigrants stayed between 1863 and 1935, with very cramped living conditions.

I went once during high school. First they give a brief history lecture on what city life was like during the time period. Then they give a tour of the tenements, where inside you meet actors and actresses who play the residents of the building. They show you around their homes, and you can ask them questions about who they are, where they come from, and how they manage. They answer everything as if they are an immigrant during that era.

Here is the website:

http://www.tenement.org/