Week 4

This has been an eventful week. The first thing I did this week was self-assesment. As a manager it is important to look at your own performance rather just your employees. I learned it is important as a director to be more dominant in correspondence with filmmakers. For the past couple of weeks I have asked nicely for those who submitted their films directly to FilmFreeway rather than posting a vimeo link. After three weeks and multiple e-mails I still am missing responses from about 12 people. I now realized it is important to make the deadline harder and finite. I will add in the manual that you should request them and if they are not in by that time they will be dropped from consideration. I believe this will influence them to respond punctually. Another thing I had to do this past week was prepare Daryl for jurying. She tends to be shy because she is an introvert but I know she has what it takes to be lead. This week I also started to come up with ideas for bumpers to make with Rob and we plan to work on them this coming weekend. I also had fun finding sample resumes to use in job hunts. One thing i found was is that is damn near impossible to find the resumes of my favorite directors. They must keep those under lock and key. I am truly excited to get prepared for the job hunt. I have alot of anxiety when it comes to graduating and getting a job in film but I believe this assignment along with the work I have done will help me a great deal. I also made sure to delegate tasks to Jessica and Daryl to make sure we are prepared for jurying next class. These ladies truly are awesome teammates and are proactive. They had them done almost as soon as I requested. We also made sure to set up the meeting to go over our presentation to the partner school next weekend. I believe we are going to have a great time and bring back alot of students this year as well. Grace seems to really be on top of it this year and GMU is actually giving us a lot more time to talk about Visions than we had last year. I also gave Michelle feedback on the posters all of which are amazing I am excited to vote on them whichever one will be great.