Schedule Scuttle

     This week has been very disorganized for me in terms of this project.  I have been thinking about it aimlessly with no real objective in mind.  This doesn't really surprise me, though.  For all of my projects for this class, I usually complete them with no schedule in mind whatsoever.  This results in me rushing to finish the project last minute, which is not a fun experience.  To combat my procrastination this time, I created a schedule for my partner and me for the remaining six weeks (and it's even color coded).

     The salmon represents the planning phase.  In the first week, we have already established a basic plot to follow and started to think about possible music since that needs to be started early.  The second week will have a focus on finalizing the tone, target audience, and overall feel of the film opening early on so we can also have a good idea on what exactly will happen in the scene.  During the third week, Vicente and I will create a storyboard in order to finalize all the shots we will need to film and the equipment required.

     The tan section represents preparing to film.  This consists of obtaining equipment film wise such as cameras, lights, and a set as well as costumes and props.  Even though this won't be that hard of a task due to having friends in the television production program at my school, I gave it a full week and a second that overlap other parts of the process.

     The green section is filming.  Going into this part very prepared, I do not believe that it will take long at all. This makes me think that I might find myself ahead of schedule at this point (I am aware this is wishful thinking), which makes me happy because I believe the next section will be very challenging

     The purple section represents editing and the creative critical reflection.  In all honesty, I think the filming will take take four or five days maximum, so the week that I have overlapping for filming and editing will mostly be used for editing.  Editing has always been a grueling process for me, as I am not that experienced with it.  Fortunately, I have talked to my friend and he will allow me to use his professional editing software, Premiere.  I plan on watching tutorial videos to help me learn, so hopefully the editing will go faster than it usually does.  I think the CCR will be easy to do right since I plan on taking clips from the film and doing a voice over for them, which I've been told isn't hard at all.

     I really hope that this schedule will prove to be effective.  I plan on trying to follow this the best I can so I don't fall behind.  My partner also now has a copy of this so hopefully he'll help me stay on track to assist my lack of self motivation.  I will let you all know how it goes as my project develops.