Scheduling⋆˚꩜｡

I LOVE PREPLANNING!!!!

I feel like I'm the only person that uses the agendas our school provides for us (for free too). Absolutely everything is in my agenda (even if its not an assignment haha). If I don't write something down in my agenda, I will not do it because my memory is not the best.

 Anyway, this project is extensive and important so we need to use our time wisely. Kenna, Renn, and I have a lot of things happening in our own personal lives, so we decided to create a shared google calendar to break up how we want to use our time, and write in days that we know we are busy (for example I'm going to be out all of spring break). Renn and I are also going to be out next week competing at the Student Television Network convention in Tampa with our TV production club! 

Here's what our shared google calendar looks like so far:

˙⋆✮ It can look confusing, so here is our schedule broken down (in detail) ˙⋆✮

˗ˏˋ2/18-2/23ˎˊ˗

Brainstorming, brainstorming, and more brainstorming! We want to take time to come up with our own ideas to then meet up and discuss everything together and decide a beginning, middle, and end to our story so Renn can start the script (we will all help but he will be the main writer). We will be meeting up on Sunday (2/22) to do that. 

˗ˏˋ 2/24 - 3/04ˎˊ˗

Renn and I will be out at STN from the Feb 26th - March 3rd! Kenna will be working on the set design and looking at the social media while Renn writes the script with my assistance. We will also stay in contact with Kenna for updates.

˗ˏˋ3/05 - 3/13ˎˊ˗

Filminggg!!! We are planning on getting it done before spring break for two reasons. One: we are all away. Two: break will become extra cushion time for anything we need since we can fully focus on this without worrying about school. Filming wont take all of those days but we need an open time frame since we all have super busy schedules. My prediction is 2-4 actual filming days. We also need a day to decorate our "set".

˗ˏˋ3/14 - 3/27ˎˊ˗ 

Post production time. Mostly consists of editing and creating graphics for Renn, while Kenna and I finish up the Instagram and the postcard. We are all nitpicky and slow editors so we want to take our time and not be rushed.

˗ˏˋ3/28 - 4/10ˎˊ˗

Final edits, andddd our critical reflections (which are thankfully not a video). This is mostly just a super cushion week in case anything goes wrong and we have to push things back. We also talked about using this time for peer review on the film, social media, and postcard! And that's what the next 8 weeks will look like!

** For reference here is the sample schedule we were provided: 

Week One:
-choose project genre
-begin developing full film plot
-research genre and story ideas
-post to blog
 
Week Two:

-continue research/plan project components
-continue to develop story
-land on final ideas
-post to blog 

Week Three:
-continue to research/project components (digital/print)
-develop script or outline
-develop filming/editing schedule
-reach out to any people possibly needed for filming
-create shot list/storyboard
-create social media tool

 
Week Four:
-continue to research/project components
-begin production of video component
-document production process (for social media and blog)
-post to social media
-post to blog
 
Week Five:
-continue to research/plan project components
-continue production of video component
-start edit video component
-begin planning print component
-post to social media
-post to blog
 
Week Six:
-continue post-production of video component
-continue planning of print component
-post to social media
-post to blog
 
Week Seven:
-research information relating to Critical Reflection
-finalize video component
- work on print/digital components
-post to social media
-post to blog
 
Week Eight:
-research information relating to Critical Reflection
-finalize video component
- work on print/digital components
-post to social media
-post to blog
 
Week Nine:
-create Critical Reflection
-finalize print component
-post to social media
-post to blog
 
Week Ten:
-create final, overall project reflection
-post all project components to blog
-Post Critical Reflection to blog

Portfolio Project˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀

Hi blog!! Happy new year!!

We started portfolio projects today, whoop whoop! 

I've been pondering this project over the past month. I started reaching out to people last week to figure out who I wanted to work with. I of course wanted to work with Kenna again because I loved working with them on our documentary project (as I posted about earlier on the blog). And I also wanted to work with my close friend Renn! Luckily they both weren't in a group yet so YAY (drumroll) I introduce our super awesome trio: 

I love this group :)

After we sat down together we got straight to deciding what we wanted portfolio project to be. Straight away we all agreed we did not want to create a documentary package or a film promotion package. That left us with short film and music promo. After a lot of back and forths we decided to create a pros and cons list to help us decide. 

After more discussion we ended up choosing the short film package! I'm personally super hyped and I cant wait to see what we create! We all agreed we wanted to create a story that captures our current, high school selves and honestly the short film is the easiest way to do that!!