Week 5

This week has been an eventful week. This week means it was our last round of films to jury. It took a while to get all of the films together and we still had a few people that entered to ignore the e-mail making our jury list a little shorter than usual. However we refuse to let that stop us. Since Daryl did not get to leads discussion last class and Shannon wanted her to wait another class period I prepared Daryl to lead next class. I know she is ready and she seems pretty confident she can handle it. Another great thing I did this week was to shoot a bumper with Rob. I think it is hilarious and will make the class laugh. It was kind of hard to do with the equipment room closing early last week so it was very guerilla style. Another thing that we did this week was to go over our Forte training. After going over it I have began to reevaluate my managing style and have been trying to be more assertive. Furthermore this week I got prepared to inform the Scholars that we accepted their papers but I could not find the e-mail template. Jonathan told me it was actually Shannon who informed them last year but I drafted up an e-mail in case Shannon wanted me to do it this year. I also made sure the Jessica and Daryl set up a films still in consideration database for the final night of jurying so that as I am leading the class we will know what films we are arguing for. I also set up a time to meet with carson about the instillation that we will be doing in the clocktower lounge for friday night dinner. I think this is going to be a fun project to work on and it should be fun to bring in others to help on it. I plan to start working on soundscapes for Carson's animations this week as well. I have been trying to get in contact with my Goodfellas connection but he has been hard to get ahold of especially with classes because by the time I get out he is at work and does not pick up the phone. I plan to call early tuesday morning to talk to him about chances of being able to get them private for the After Party. This is also the week before our trip to our Partner School GMU. We met to practice our presentation and go over who would do what slides and what not. Grace did an excellent job putting together the presentation and I feel we will definitely be able to get the students engaged. I am excited about our trip I think it is going to be a great time.