I attended a meeting with the other directors and Shannon before the first day of class.
On Friday the 17th I attended a Visions Directors Meeting which lasted 1-230.
On Monday the 20th My whole group attended our first meeting with the Programming team. The meeting lasted 1 hour. After this meeting I approached Anna Roberts to see how she felt as taking over the team when I have to be gone in March. I will no longer have to be gone that week due to Visions as my commander Major Woods told me to skip the week in Tampa that school was more important.
On Jan 22nd I posted a copy of my DVD Project Pitch for my team to use as an example of the 12 point planning procedure.
On January 24th I attended a Directors Meeting. After that meeting knowing my team has everything including their job descriptions down pat, I made them attend the meeting. Every member of my team attended the meeting and made huge progress in the meeting in the area's of their responsibility's.
On Monday 27th of November I went back into DVD Studio Pro and looked at the old DVD. Everything worked just as it did the day I sent the DVD's in. And Again when I submitted every piece of Work for the DVD to DISCMAKERS. I have come to the realization that the DVD should have worked fine as does my copy at home. It works the same on the computer as it does. I do not know why certain players will not allow the underlines for the titles as markers to select to not work as they do on computers.
On Wednesday 29th of January my group went above and beyond. They put projects that were not even due yet up for the class to go over. They all made comments on every paper that I had commented on. I received emails from google every time someone commented on the projects I had commented on.
February 4 2014. Over this past weekend I have watched the films that have been required to watch and grade them. I attended a meeting at Shannon's house on Friday after the winter storm. I meet with my team on Monday Night and my whole group showed up. I answered questions and asked my people about the syllabus. They have read it and fully understand. I asked questions they would have only known by reading it and they all got them right. I went through the contract for lumina that Matt had Jon make and re type and identified all the parts that involve me the day of the event.
February 4 2014: Anna has set up a meeting with Sharky's.
2/11/14: Since last week I attended a meeting with Anna Roberts my head of Registration and Shannon to set up the day of event registration and the E-tix information. I also on Monday pushed hard and got everything in the right spots in the other departments (Art and PR) for the beginning of the Digital Arts Contest. When the posters get approved i will get them printed off and put them up on campus all over campus in every building. I owe the Art and PR department a box of doughnuts. I have also been doing research on lighting for the day of event and working with dimmers at my internship. I have also come up with the idea of maybe having a dolly set up the day of the event so we can film the keynote and the q and a sessions better. I feel it will take more people in the class to help run the dolly during the needed times. My 12 steps for being the Operations director will always be below this because I cannot figure out how to move it over and begin typing at the other side.
2/18/14: Likes and not likes for papers
Bill Murray: I like the idea of the paper I feel if it is refined it would bring people into the audience to hear the speaker. the negatives where to begin. It is not well written and it has little to no point or research.
Gravity: I feel this paper is well. I feel it is not as interesting as I would have wanted it. I do not like how the paper says that Gravity and the long take is taken from Avant garde cinema. I just do not see the connection in long shots and how it linked to gravity. it is not ready yet.
Japanese Ghost: I feel this is one of the best papers we have. I feel that it is very well written and researched. The Bad: I feel that it may not be the forte of people in the crowd nothing with the paper.
Irreversible: I love this paper. This will be the star of the conference if the audience response is how it is in class I want to see this. The only negative is the subject that is very hard to talk about well.
Murders: I feel the examples of this will make the film. I would be very interested in the way this is presented. I feel that the paper is well enough written to be a good presentation. Negatives: nothing to say. It may rely on to many video examples to much like Joey powells presentation did.
Pans: This paper is very well researched. I feel it is very steady and could possible be like the presentation on My Own Private Idaho was last year. I am worried that it may be to scholarly for people in the audience to understand the jargon.
Blues Brothers: I am excited to see this presentation. I like how the paper is written. I am worried about the length of the presentation. I feel this presentation could be to long.
Orsen welles: This paper is well written. I do not really care for the subject and it is kinda boring.
Boys and Girls: I like the paper. It is well written and has solid research. I feel that the paper great length and would have lots of clips and photos to show.
cinema du garde: I liked the paper. It is very well written however I do not agree with his result. I do not feel that cinema du corps is a result of avant grade cinema. I feel they are close but i do not see the full relationship in his paper.
Active Viewer: I loved how this is broken up into sections. Each section would be a great segment in which they present. I found the had lots of great examples.
Unfilmable: This paper is way to long. I feel the paper is very well researched and way beyond the level of must undergraduates. I feel that this presentation will have to be narrowed down in order to fit it in the time limit.
2/19/14: Today I printed off and posted 10 posters around uncw to include: King, Kenan, Cameran school of business, dobo, Cultural arts, Computer Science, Fisher, Dapolo. I also found out that the Digital arts contest stuff is not on the site so no wonder we have not had any submissions. I feel like I am wasting my time when people don't do what they say they are going to. Deep breath.
2/26/14: This week I have been working on how to get more submissions to the Digital Arts Contest. I have emailed the administrative assistants for Computer Science, Art, Art History and Film Studies to get the word out. I have had the Art and Art History that have responded and said they would gladly send it to their students. I have also been confused about the Projection the day of the event. I have to make a master schedule but it is Matts job to make the DVD's? This does not make any since to me. I feel that unless Matt gets the job he wants then it will be a struggle. I feel that if I am making the master schedule for what is on the screen the entire day and every things schedule then I need to be in control of what is on each DVD and when it is played. If not I do not have enough trust with anyone else to just have them say they will do it and let me know. I will not take the fall if it is wrong and not on my end. If the DVD's do not run as planned and their is discrepancies from the schedule then I will have only one answer based on what I was given from Matt and the programming team.
3/12/14: This week I have been going through the old equipment list and preparing for the equipment check out. I want this to run smooth and for Nate to have it in enough time for us to get everything we need. I used last years checkout request as my sample. I also this week began to talk to James from the art department about being on board. He was very eager to begin.
3/19/14: This week I have gotten most of the films from Matt Gosslet. We also had 1 person not in our class submit to the Digital Arts Contest. It is considered a failure in my mind due to 3 people in the class and 1 student from UNCW. I guess it is another person coming to our event know. The equipment list has been sent to Nate. I have drill this Weekend so I will be out of the picture.
3/26/14: Today we had a walk through with Sandra Jackson in prep work for our Tech Rehearsal. I also made a master Schedule last night after getting every departments schedules. This took me about 3 hours to find all the information and to call people to get their schedules. I have also been meeting and previewed the DVD information. I also got a final quote for DVD's and cc'd Shannon in that and she sent it to Jaime for the voucher. All Films are compressed and I bought DVD-9.
3/31/14: The WALK THROUGH: This week I have had my team make sure everything is up and running. Parking and Facilities are coming along nicely. During the walk through the Camera i bought off of eBay did not want to work so I went out and bought a webcam with speakers and everything works great. The live feed is a GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DVD is going to be awesome as well but due to this week being so crazy I have not had time to meet with James. equipment check out is tomorrow at 1pm so I will have everything and then go to PTSD group session and then go to the dinner. LETS Rock and ROLL.
12 Step for Operations Director: This is something that I have already done
with my job description.
1.
The What of being the Operations Director? The operations director is a producer role
mixed with a 1AD. I will supervise as a
producer for the DVD, Volunteer, Registration, Volunteer and the Facility the
day of the event. I will supervise and
make sure everything is running smoothly the day of the event. I will also be producing the event for the
DVD that should be better than the last years Visions DVD. I do not know what happened with the DVD but
that is not the point of this. As a 1AD
I will be very hands on the day of the event and make sure that everything is
running smoothly and if there is a problem I will be able to pin point it out
and go with the curve.
2.
Who is my customer? Visions Film Festival and Conference, UNCW,
UNCW Film Studies, Awesome Film Makers and Scholars who we bring in, Sponsors
and anyone else who comes to the event:
friends, family’s students and members of the Wilmington community.
3.
What can I deliver? I will deliver tech and a smooth running
operation the day of the event. I will
also provide smooth technical planning the day of the event and it will help
make our DVD Awesome. With my team I
will be able to contribute to a day that people will be talking about for years
and I will take pride as will my team that they took part of it.
4.
The Budget?
I do not feel comfortable posting any budget remarks on my blog.
5.
How long will this take? This job will take the whole semester. I will be working form January to May. In this time I will have the DVD, Day of
Event, Digital Arts Contest and other items with my team to complete.
6.
Who will help?
Anna Roberts with Registration, Tyler Davis for Volunteers, Ben Dorton
with the Facility and parking, Matt Goslet with Programming, Nico with
Programming, Jonathan with Programming, Channing and the ART Department for
signs, bumpers, dvd art work, digital arts contest and websites.
7.
What Resources will I need? I will need my team to do their absolute best
and have their programs lined up. I will
also need the Art Department for artistic help and website registration. I will need ACE and other groups that are
helping work on the day of the event.
8.
Who is the team aka TEAM AWESOME? Anna Roberts: Registration, Ben Dorton
Facility and Parking and Tyler Davis for volunteers. Programming for films and speakers and help
the day of the event.
9.
Schedule
a.
January:
Welcome back, get team ready, Digital Arts Kickoff prep, Meeting with Sandra
and ACE
b.
February:
Digital Arts Kick off, Films Compressed for DVD, Registration,
Volunteers, Facility and Parking Almost Finalized.
c.
March:
DVD portion of Films completed before festival, Announce DA Contest
winners, Finalize equipment by March 10th to Nate Daniels. All group projects Finalized with backup
plans in place.
d.
April: Day of Event, DVD edited with Keynote,
Video Race, Q and A edited by class.
Manuel Created and made for next years team. DVD sent out.
10. Risks
a.
We could fail and nothing goes good and the DVD
is horrible.
b.
We can do awesome and have everything go well
and it all works out.
11. Final
Thoughts
a.
I feel that I am prepared and running my team
the right way. I feel that I have better
control over this team than I did the Art Department in that I am able to work backwards
from the end of the year to the beginning.
