Week Ending 3.26.13

Wednesday - met with Matt and Channing to go over details for the tech run through, as well as our next meeting with Sandra - James will be taking over on tech from here as I work with Brandon on registration, but I'll be available to help with tech in any way that I can

Thursday - compiled list of films for Joey and James to give to professor co-moderators, was missing a few of the links so will work to get those and have the documents ready by next class period

Friday - met with Brandon to discuss registration procedures and registration documents - we will be meeting more in depth to secure everything to be ready for the registration table on the day of, including potentially making it an electronic google doc for guests to type their info into upon arrival

Saturday - emailed Campus Life Reservations to reserve easels, compiled list of what supplies will be needed for the table - will be gather all of those over this coming week and weekend

Sunday - send info regarding Conference Block 2 to Ana Olenina, as per request.

Monday - AD meeting, tied up random loose ends with Channing and PTO team members to make sure everything is on track, made list of all FST faculty and Visions staff members with respective titles for badge labels

Tuesday - presented/plugged Visions to the first block of Palmer's "Contemporary French Cinema" class and Sue Richardson's Feminism class; worked on a few Facilities/tech/registration organizational things (emailing and list-making and confirming)

Week Ending 3.19.13

Wednesday - PTO meeting - discussed logistical stuff for registration table, parking, signs, supplies, tallying numbers, tech run-throughs, etc. Then I worked with Matt on sending out emails to all of the filmmakers with tech spec guidelines for sending in hard copies of their films and scholars with presentation tech details.

Thursday - emailed Sue Richardson, Terry Linehan, Mariana Johnson, and Todd Berliner, Nandana Bose and Ana Olenina inviting them to take part as FST professor hosts for Visions 2013.

Friday - compiled list of film blocks with links to the films for faculty viewing (for Josh and James to give to Chip and Glenn)

Monday - AD meeting; ran registration report, e-mailed Mariana Johnson about being time moderator for Conference Block 1

Tuesday - met with Matt and Channing to discuss: technical details regarding Facilities, meeting with Sandra Jackson again, and then when to do a tech run through.

Week Ending 3.12.13

Wednesday - PTO meeting, divied up the list of films that were not selected into four sections and each team members was assigned a section to send rejection letter to, discussed what's to come for the week ahead, 1 hour

Thursday - went to dat 90's partay ;)

Friday - updated the rejection letter template and uploaded to dropbox, sent out my section of rejection letters, 1.5 hour

SPRING BREAK

Monday - met with the A.D.s, discussed updates, spoke with Shannon to decide all of the co-moderators, then worked on guidelines for co-moderator emails 2.5 hrs

There were some other things I did, but unfortunately Spring Break is causing my mind not to remember them...If there imperative things for next year that need to be notated, I'll put them in my next blog.

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