5/8-5/12 Weekly Work Log

Session Number: 5
Week Number: 7
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 7
What is/was your overall goal for this week? My goal was to finish editing our film and to get it completed for the potential film competition entry.

Work Tasks

Date Task Description Time Spent  Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? 
5/8 Compiled footage and uploaded it to Google Drive 20 Min As it was overall easier to edit at home, I uploaded all of our footage to the drive and compressed it into a zip file.
5/9 Slideshow/Edit film 60 Min Began editing our film so it could be completed on time.
5/10 Finish editing 180 Min Edited at home on my own time, finished color correction, various audio edits, transitions, etc. Film complete.
5/11 Watch films and vote for films 60 Min Watched all the films across the two classes, and voted on the top 3 films for the film competition.
5/12 Work on the production blog post 60 Min I worked on the production blog post because a majority of my time was taken up due to editing our film throughout the week.

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5/1-5/5th Weekly Work Log

Session Number: #5
Week Number: #6
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: # goes here
What is/was your overall goal for this week? Finish production for our film, and get a good edit.

Work Tasks

Date Task Description Time Spent  Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? 
5/1 Create new foley sounds 30 Min Was a voice actor/sound creator for new foley sounds. Ex: Bird whistles, wind blowing, etc.
5/2 Checked out sound equipment, consulted reshooting 45 Min After losing most of our footage, we consulted with the team to re-shoot the film before the due date.
5/3 Record more foley sounds for outdoor scenery 30 Min We don’t know what to expect in terms of the outdoor audio, so we recorded some foley sounds for various outdoor sounds.
5/4 Update production blog post 60 Min Added some of the evidence we have gathered for the film.
5/5 Planned for reshoot tomorrow 30 Min We planned what time, where to meet, and when to reshoot our film for tomorrow.

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Why Finding Purpose Is SO HARD

  • 1:40 What’s The Point In All This?
  • 3:01 An addiction to pornography is a sense of meaningless
  • 10:40 Look at funny videos if you’re overwhelmed
  • 11:30 You don’t know what it’s like to do something
  • 13:08 Boredom… What’s the purpose of it?
  • 14:51 Internal thoughts arise in a negative way
  • 15:48 What do people do in their gap year?
  • 18:05 What am I supposed to do? Reach the end of thought
  • 19:00 Boredom is an attempt at the brain to get a hit of dopamine
  • 21:04 The purpose in life is in you
  • 22:02 Align your life around your discovered purpose
  • 23:29 Start that journey today

4/24-4/28 Weekly Work Log

Session Number 5
Week Number 5
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 5
What was your overall goal for this week? To rehearse some of our lines, and some camera angles for part of our film.

Work Tasks

Date Task Description Time Spent Was this a Best Practice?
4/24 Location 1 set up 60 Min Got lighting and camera angles in their appropriate spots
4/25 Was on phone, while also assisting with the soundtrack 60 Min I would give advice to the sound person for the music for our film, for what would fit the mood.
4/26 Rehearsal 60 Min Did some rehearsals in the library for some of the parts of the film.
4/27 Record room tone, and foley 45 Min Uploaded all the audio to the drive afterward, and went into the sound room to figure everything out.
4/28 Nothing much 60 Min Missing our camera man and our director, there wasn’t much for us to do today.

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4/10-4/14 Weekly Work Log

Session Number 5
Week Number 3
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 5
What was your overall goal for this week? Collaborate with test shoots, shot lists, etc.

Work Tasks

Date Task Description Time Spent Was this a Best Practice?
4/10 Review the location maps and discuss 45 Min Allows me to get a better idea for editing techniques.
4/11 Carry out test shoots 45 Min Gives me an idea of any potential edits I want to make.
4/12 Collaborate with the sound person on sound FX and music 40 Min Creates the general mood and background effects for the film.
4/13 Worked on completing the pre-production blog 50 Min Worked on researching and finding information for the blog post.
4/14 Wrap up pre-production post 50 Min I completed the post by the due date.

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3/27-3/31 Weekly Work Log

Session Number 5
Week Number 2
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 5
What was your overall goal for this week? Work on blog posts, and collaborate with my team.

Work Tasks

Date Task Description Time Spent Was this a Best Practice?
3/27 Work on pre-production journal 30 Min As this is new information to me, yes.
3/28 Collaborate on location maps (location 1) 60 Min Outline for location #1 for camera and actor placement.
3/29 (Collaborate on location maps (location 2) 60 Min Outline for location #2 for camera and actor placement.
3/30 Research leaders in my field 30 Min Researched editors for big and well known films.
3/31 Continue pre-production journal 45 Min Fill in more labels on the pre-production journal.

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March 20-24th – Weekly Work Log

Session Number 5
Week Number 1
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 5
What was your overall goal for this week? Organize the Trello, and collaborate on the storyboard.

Work Tasks

Date Task Description Time Spent Was this a Best Practice?
3/20 Watch Short Films 1 Hour Watched short films for an hour, to help with research.
3/21 Team Meeting 30 Minutes Had a team meeting with Le Duc, and talked about plans for our film, and each role.
3/22 Researched Editing Techniques 1 Hour I researched some good editing techniques within Premiere Pro, as well as for the general genre of the film.
3/23 Created Mood Board 15 Minutes Created a mood board based on general film emotion.
3/24 Find A Leader In The Field 10 Minutes Found an editor in the field, who had worked on some pretty well-known films.

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