Week before Turkey Day

So this weekend I finally took a day off.  I felt I needed it having drill last week.  I did meet with Kyle last week.  He was feeling overwhelmed and we talked and I helped coarse him into creating a master calendar for the art department.  I also told him that he needs to get it from the other AD's in the class to help with his calendar.  I also discussed an idea with him to have an Art request form for the art department.  I have been working on this and using Nate Daniels template for the equipment request form as a guide.  I showed up at 9pm the night after class to make sure things were going well.  I also contacted Jaime for Channing to let him know that we needed stuff on the site changed ASAP.  On friday Channing contacted me and asked me to work with Jaime on converting the website back to wordpress.  I made contact with Jaime and on Sunday he came over to my house and we converted it, only to be told to change it back by Channing later that night.  After that I told Channing to make a command decision and that not everyone will be happy.  Pretty much to pick Wordrpess or Dreamweaver.  I felt that Dreamweaver was the best way to go and if Channing gets together with Jaime and learns a little bit about it, she could have control and approve changes that he makes.  I feel that Channing needs to be the Director of the department and not be so wishy washy on subjects.  I feel this will have a major positive spin on the art department.  This is the way I wanted to lead it when I was in charge and I felt it would have worked out better.  This is the way I will be running my Operations team next semester.  Myself and Jaime spent about 2 hours at my house working on the website.  I also checked out the R16 from Nate Daniels to do sound experimenting with for Visions Film Festival and Conference for the day of the event.  I feel that by having a better sound it will help with the DVD.  I also had a meeting with Nate set up for thursday of last week.  I went in and asked about equipment including steady cam, lights and dimmers, sound mixers, camera's and everything that I wasn't sure about for the day of the event.  The meeting went well and I feel we will be able to put out a better DVD.  I want the lights to help make the presenters and Q and A panels up front  to be brighter.  The R16 will give us a master sound that will allow us to control levels and have great audio of Q and A, Keynote, and anyone else who needs to talk.  I am working on setting up a master DVD process for the day of the event or an iTunes playlist for the event.  More will come after I do more research.  If I am lucky enough I may be able to talk to Monika Moreno this week and get some feedback on operations.