Busy

This last week has been really busy. Not necessarily because of class, but just the fact that time has slipped away. Between class, work and family everything is keeping me busy. But as a team, we seem to be doing fine. We should be finishing up our portion of the DVD soon, and moving on into project #2.

do work

So we just got done with our final interview for the documentary. Monique gave us the perfect alternative to Mary's interview. Also Mrs. Shabazz will not be appearing in our video. The only thing that we have left to shoot is exterior shots of the building. Also during Monique's interview she gave us a good beginning to our film. Everything is falling into place.

back from break

Well, we're back from spring break. It's gonna get cuh-razy coming up. More editing to be done this week. Tomorrow we're going back to MOM to get one (possibly two) more interview(s) with co-founder Raushannah Shabbaz and possibly Monique (former MOM student now MOM worker). Thursday (or Friday depending on the weather), I'm going to go around to various locations in Muncie to collect some b-roll of former MOM meeting locations. Then I think we're gonna be done with shooting completely.

Oh, and I dominated the rough cut.

Our group effort

The Documentary team is feeling great after todays class! As a group we have been working collectively to get the job done, which is coming along great! We are excited that it is almost done and think that Jill and Mary will love the video! We have great shots, as well as good b-roll and Wednesday we are going to MOMS to get another interview with Monique, as well as more b-roll shots which we will put on the server.

production

This week we anticipate to get a lot of our segements done. A few of us had a great interview shoot for the day in life of the children. I am looking foward to getting more great footage and gettting into the editing roomn and seeing what we have in there, then we can start seeing what really have to work with.

Awww Snap-Fooey

Okay, so we have two weeks til cut-to-time is due, and I am about just on par with my usual mid-semester freak out. Our group has soooo much to do, and it just seems like as soon as we get one thing finished, four more things that we hadn't expected to have to deal with come up.

We are working on some really creative ways of telling the needs of MOM, and if it comes together as I hope it will, then we'll definitely leave Mrs. Dollison with a smile on her face.

Anyway, next two weeks are gonna be shitty kinda busy, but I think I'm ready for it.

spring break

spring break is over and some work got done on our video and we are going to finish it up this week hopefully

Frustrated and Running Low On Time

We are quickly running out of time and after trying to do a little bit of a rough cut for one of our videos, I realized how little we have accomplished. Honestly, I think 80 to 90 percent of the work that will go into the final project will come in the next week and a half. We cannot rest or do anything but devote every waking moment possible to this project if we are going to expect a decent result. We have horsed around to much and now have an almost insurmountable challenge to attempt. The rough cut I have done of the day in the life of video is awful. I am ashamed to have my name on it. Our concept for that is dead in the water. The kids were simply not talkative enough for this to work.
Communicaiton in and out of the group is still a big problem. I have spoken with Mary and Jill and they are both frustrated by the handling of certain communications. This cannot continue. On Monday, our group is going to have to sit down and have a collective "come to Jesus" talk so that every last one of us can get the focus and determination we should have had a month ago.

Jim

spring break yay

i spent it in muncie working. END