Week 11

This week was very busy. Finally!

I had to coordinate equipment requests for Monday's shoot, then we shot for six hours Monday night. We got nervous for a bit because we originally planned on shooting four interviews, then two people cancelled on us. We squeezed one more person in at the last second, so we still got through three interviews. As we were filming, I could see the parts of each interview that would work perfectly as clips in our movie. It was also interesting doing that many in one night because every one of them was so wildly different from each other interview, and watching them back to back like we did was just really exciting. It does make me more nervous for editing, though. It is definitely going to be difficult to tie some of this together. But I love the style of interview we're doing; it is very unorthodox. More conversation amongst people, less formal. That's also what makes them all so different from each other.

I have already sent in an equipment request for what will hopefully be our last shoot, which is April 13. We will be operating without Aly for this one, but we pulled in a friend, Luqi, to help last night operate our second camera and she is such a superstar. She's going to operate camera for us on the 13th, so I'm not as nervous as I might have been if circumstances were any different.

Otherwise, I am continuing researching festivals and crowdsourcing options.

Week 10

This week we started to schedule a shoot, but when I put in the equipment request we ended up not getting the lights we wanted. Apparently, this is that time in the semester in which all the 495 classes are filming, so it was a little more tricky than it has been to coordinate between Emily Kaitlyn and Aaron, the current equipment room guy. We ended up rescheduling for another week, so now we are filming next Monday night. We are trying to film four people that night, which will hopefully be it for us and we can focus on editing.

We are confirmed to interview Lisa, a massage therapist Emily Kaitlyn and I work with; Ally Gold; Zack, a friend of Emily Kaitlyn's; and Aubrey, another of Emily Kaitlyn's friends.

I am working on looking up festivals on my own and I have been talking to Emily Kaitlyn about the one's she already knows about that she would like to submit to. I will be putting together a spreadsheet and putting it in the drive this week with all of my information for those.

I have also plugged in everything we will be doing into the calendar for the next two weeks, including equipment, editing, and the interviews.

We are also officially underway with a score and a poster! I'm loving how much this project is really coming together!

Week 9

To be completely honest, this week, I did no work for this class. I was out of town the whole week for spring break. We will pick up again with the interviews this week. I think we are looking at doing two or three interviews on Monday when we don't have class and maybe wrapping up the project and sending it all to post. But we haven't decided on that fully.

Week 8

This week I really didn't do much work for this project at all. We didn't have anyone to film this week, so Emily Kaitlyn and Aly spent time editing. That also means I did nothing about an equipment request.

The only real update is that we finally landed on a [possibly temporary] title for the film! Memoirs in Symphony. Emily Kaitlyn really likes it, and so do I.

My next project is to start researching film festivals we can submit our film to. I have begun the basics of basic searching, but once I actually start I will make a spreadsheet and upload it to the google drive.

But for now, happy spring break!

Week 7

This week, I didn't do very much work as producer since we didn't do any interviews. Emily Kaitlyn and Aly spent some time in the lab working on our sample clip. We have found a few other people to interview, so that will be most likely after spring break.

I thought the sample clip this week turned out really well. It felt raw and emotional, and I really thought it brought out more of the essence of what we're going to do with the project. I knew I had a reason to be excited about our last two interviews. Every week, I become more anxious to see the final product of our work. I think it's starting to come together quite nicely.

I also really enjoy the side effect of being in a small group that now I have one more skill I can add to my repertoire: if any of my friends ever ask around about someone to run sound for them on a shoot, I will feel confident enough in my abilities after this semester to say I could do it. I think its important to be able to do a lot of things on a set, especially in such a tight knit community like Wilmington.