10/14/13-10/18/13

This week, I made a lot of progress with my Girl Be Heard piece.

I started out with a completely different idea then what I have now. Actually, I bounced from a million different ideas. But today, sitting down with all of the girls on my team helped a lot. Our ideas bounced off one another and we have a complete idea of what we are doing. We are beginning and ending with 4 lines of a song. We finished composing the beginning of it:

After this, each girl will recite their monologue. What I did to make each of them tie together is assigning them the first line and last line of their monologue. The last line of the monologue will be the first line of another girls', and so on (if that makes sense.) 

We have a 10 minute time slot, so here is my layout of how the performance will go

Start: 4 lines of song (30 seconds)

Shaquilla's Piece (2-3 minutes)

Halle's Piece (2-3 minutes)

Hazel's Piece (2-3 minutes)

Ayonda's Piece (2-3 minutes)

End: 4 lines of song (30 seconds)

I will have a precise plan of the time once I get the finalized drafts of each girl's piece (which I am waiting on now) 

Today, we performed a rough run-through of our piece and I have to say, I am very happy with it and know for a fact we will be prepared by November 2nd. 

10/7/13- 10/11/13

This week was mostly focused on my Girl Be Heard work. I spent wens and thurs writing my piece for Saturday's International Day of Girl performance. 

I also ushered for Cake Production's The Learned Ladies Saturdy night.

I am going to have to spend my blogs working on my Girl Be Heard work. I just got word today that my first piece that i will be directing will be at Estrogenius (a festivel for Women's theatre) on November 2nd. I will also be co-writing it with a few other girls in the program. My next piece will be shown at my Girl Be Heard open mic on December 15th

9/30/13-10/4/13

This week, I continued working on my shot sheet as well as new storyboards.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GHkuHXedsFe9IbhXd3u9RUuMpUHPPDHwiaitj8nT-SQ/pub

After looking back at the storyboards I attempted last week, I realized, well, I am the worst sketcher on the planet. They looked worse than cartoons, and I can't believe my hands produced something that horrifying. I started with basics this time, which I probably should have done in the first place by using basic circles and adding on from there. I will never be able to produce masterpieces, but the storyboards are for myself and I at least need to know what it will look like in live action. Doing the shot sheets first is helping a lot. I am no longer aimlessly scribbling until something seems kind of right.

Everything seems to be on track as of now, but the more I think about it, I don't have much time. I want to film exactly a month from now, and my schedule is only getting more and more packed. My to do list is as followed

-Pick a clear shooting day, get conflicts
-Get permission for using school (or change last scene all together)
-Confirm with Brett about borrowing his camera/editing software
-Confirm with costume designer

These all seem simple on paper, but depending on how busy I get with Girl Be Heard, I may have to put this project on hold.

9/23/13-9/27/13

This week, I began the first drafts of the story board and shot sheet for Agnus Sleeps Over.

http://docs.google.com/document/d/1GHkuHXedsFe9IbhXd3u9RUuMpUHPPDHwiaitj8nT-SQ/pub

(I'M PUTTING THIS IN ALL CAPS SO I MAKE SURE THAT YOU SEE THE LINK ABOVE IS THE LINK TO THE BEGINNING TO MY SHOT SHEET.)

I forgot how difficult and how focused you have to be to do a storyboard (After my lovely experience during last years film) I forgot how much I suck at drawing, and I also forgot that storyboards are much easier to do when you have a shot sheet. I put down the storyboard for now, and I am going to put my time into perfecting the rest of the shot sheet next week. Once I have a very clear idea of what I want for each shot, I will attempt to *shivers* draw. 

I figured out that the best time for shooting would be during November break. I will work with Brett on editing during that week because he has premiere and I do not. I do admit, I slacked off a little bit this week when it comes to blogs because of my SAT classes, schoolwork, and Girl Be Heard, but prioritizing my time better is something else I need to work on this year. I do believe, however, that I am in a good place, and will be prepared to shoot even before my shooting day.

9/16/13- 9/20/13

This week, I completed writing the entire script for episode 2 of Angus (web series)


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DhlVTg0jyEskFdL1OZPArVHkJz8foi-aJMiZBXfV0yw/pub


From Monday- Tuesday, I did my sloppy pre-writing that was in the same doc as the actual script, so it ended up getting deleted. I know for next time to put in a different doc so I have my process. On Wednesday I spent an hour writing, and on Thursday I spent 2 hours.  Friday was the day that I planned to look over it and do re-writes, but as of now, I am very happy with the script. It has been emailed to the actors. I am using mostly the same actors as the first episode, and as of now everyone is on board.

I think that I got everything that I needed done thus far, plus more. I thought I was going to have to spend at least 2 weeks writing the script, but I was able to cut that time in half. I may make edits as problems start to come up, but I am confident with what I have. I unofficially have a makeup artist for the eyebrow portion of the filming. She's in cosmetology and I have seen her makeup work in the past. I also have ideas for location, which would be my house, outside of my house, a playground/park in Old Bridge, and the school. The only issue I see with the script is getting clearance to use the school hallway after hours, but I am going to wait until I figure out scheduling to ask about that.

6/10/13-6/14/13

Most of this week, I worked on the thesis paper. My job was to do edits (all of my edits can be seen in Rianna and I's folder for our paper on Google docs)

On Thursday, I went into the city after school to go to the monologue readings at the Drama Bookshop

6/3/13- 6/7/13

The main things that I accomplished this week were

-Writing 2 plays (Which I was going to use for my final, but I have chosen to do a portfolio instead. However I will continue to work on these plays and use them in the future)

-Gathered photography that I will be using for my portfolio

-Completed the first round of edits for Rianna's thesis paper

Extra:
-Stayed after school on Monday for program auditions

-Advisory board meeting on Saturday