Week Ending 2.26.13

Wednesday - 12-12:30 - went into Shannon's office to work on updating some things with the FileMaker doc. PTO meeting 12:30 - 1:15pm. Didn't have too much to discuss since we weren't working on getting any new submissions in. Just talked about what we have upcoming to do.

Between Thursday and Sunday - I re-watched all films and then scored them on Monday night. It came to about 7 hours.

Also, intermittently during that time I have been working on getting all the films from my personal hard drive to the Visions drive since my personal one has been acting funky lately and they all need to be on the Visions drive anyways. Will continue to work on the Visions drive organization. Also sent out my share of submission confirmation emails to those filmmakers who submitted for the late deadline. 2-2.5 hrs.

Will be sending out rejection letters this week, as well as putting into action plans for what to do for after the break, especially regarding day of smoothness of event. Will be working on getting volunteers for the day, also signs for parking and directions to the event, as well as the correct format of films for screening and getting all of the films and presentations submitted to us at least a week before the event so we can have a run through with Lumina.

Week Ending 2.19.13

Wednesday - PTO Meeting and follow-up work with invitationals and submissions 1pm-2:45; meeting with Visions meeting with Sandra Jackson, Channing, and Matt G. 2:45-4pm.

Thursday - contacted any filmmakers who we seriously wanted to submit whom we hadn't been able to get a hold of yet - 45mins-1hr

Saturday - watched films for 1.5 hrs

Sunday - watched films for 3.5 hrs

Monday - watched and scored films for 1.5 hrs

Monday - AD meeting from 12:30-1:30; updated submissions FileMaker file from 2:00-5:00,
worked on uploading new submissions to hard drive from 10pm-12:30am

Week Ending 2.12.13

Tuesday - Formatted and uploaded all paper submissions to hard drive - 2 hours

Wednesday - searched Wesleyan and a bit of Temple for undergrad films from 12pm-2pm (2 hours), then from 2-3:30 (1 & 1/2 hrs) met with PTO team to discuss our plan of action. I spent the majority of that afternoon (6 hours) researching more of Temple/Diamond Screen Film Festival, Columbia/CUNUFF, CalArts, and UT Austin for undergraduate films

Thursday - spent 11am-12pm researching films from Yale and Vanderbilt

Friday - after finding 11 films to invite, I spent three hours of the morning finding as much contact info as possible for those invitationals, then spent 1 hour drafting and sending out emails;
that afternoon, I spent 1 and 1/2 hours reading papers

Sunday - met with Jon and James from 1-2 and starting working on invitationals spreadsheet list, worked on it for two more hours after that. That evening I spent another 2 hours reading paper submissions

Monday/Tuesday - worked on updating all of this week's submissions for the drive (currently #s 31-54, unless we receive two more submissions before class, then I will make it to #56 so that it will be 25 films), also spent 30 minutes calling invitational people who had not yet submitted that we have phone numbers for.

Week Ending 2.3.13

Monday, January 28 - called the 8 abstract submitters to get their full papers sent in to us, left voicemails for most, over course of time contact, continued contact throughout the week, total 2 hrs

Wednesday, January 30 - met with PTO for an hour to discuss sending out second-round invitationals to filmmakers to submit and to draft all of the new submission confirmation emails - 1 hr

Thursday - Friday: unavailable due to hospitalization

Saturday, February 2nd: watched and scored second batch of 15 films - 5 hrs


Will be working on paper formatting and uploading for class to have access to this week on Monday and they'll have access by Tuesday