April 23rd – April 30th

Hello there again (for the final time?)!! Aside from practicing my mad volleyball skills which I will now try to fuse into bowling somehow, I have been taking information that I have received from current directos and have continued on creating the master schedule for the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 based on the information I have received and the calendar set up for this coming year. Also, I emailed Sandra Jackson on Monday (4/28) about the availability for Lumina Theater and Fisher Student Center for April 17^th, 2015. Although this is not an ideal time as we all agreed upon, we hope that Lumina will be available for this date, as it would prevent us from further scheduling conflicts. I have yet to hear back from Sandra, and if I do not hear back soon I will contact her again.

April 16th – April 23rd

Hello again! So, in lieu of working on the DVD editing assignment, Nico and I have been assigned to lead the archiving project. After this week, we are practically finished archiving everything that we have, dating as far back as 2010 up until this year. There is still a few stuff left to archive from 2014 and this project will be finished before the end of the semester. Nico and I will be presenting in class during the final exam period, and it is during this time that we will explain the archiving process, how we organized everything, and what we decided to archive. I am very pleased that I was able to be apart of this process because it helped me become more familiar with the needs of each department.

April 9th – April 16th

This past week, I began to just stop and think about Visions, what made it so great and everyone in the class who just made it stellar. I have been taking notes as I have all semester on what I think works very well and things that I think could improve or do differently. In addition to my continued brainstorming of ideas, I have been working on the archiving project with Nico as well as gathering the materials to create a master schedule, detailing the schedules and deadlines for Visions5. I think this will be a helpful and instrumental tool to use next year. I have already met with a couple of the directors and I am scheduled to meet with the rest very soon. I am hoping to have this task completed as soon as possible.

April 2nd - April 9th: Reflection

So, I feel all of the hard work and effort that this class put into the festival really paid off. I believe we created and provided an extraordinarily professional event for all of the undergraduate scholars, filmmakers, students, and everyone else. I believe everything went smoothly throughout the event, and I think this is what most surprised me. I have a tendency to think that for events like Visions everything will go wrong. After we started running a little bit behind in the morning for the keynote, my worries began to increase, and I began to worry even more once I saw a herd of rowdy teenagers walking through the hallway, disturbing the interview with Kiva and the presentations for Conference Block 1. I am also pleased to see from the responses from the attendees that this film festival and conference was well received by the filmmakers and scholars as well as the attendees.

If I had the chance to go back and do something differently (which I most likely will), I would try do something about those teenagers and other people walking around the outside of Lumina Theater. I would want someone to wrangle everyone who tries to walk through that area and redirect them somewhere else.

As for anything that I would do the same? There is a lot considering the success we had this year. First of all, I would make sure that we have the same media setup, including but not limited to the combining of all of the presentations into one PowerPoint for each of the conference blocks and the same structure for the DVD/Blu-ray setups as well as keeping the same setup notes for next year.

March 27th - April 1st

So, over the past week a lot of things have happened. First, I worked with Programming and Traffic to help edit and finalize the powerpoints for Conference Block 1 and Conference Block 2. I also helped create the sponsorship slides that will be displayed at the beginning of the blocks. Also, I have helped burn the discs for the film blocks. We are using Blu-rays this year!! On Monday (3/31), Programming and Traffic and Operations met with Sandra and the ACE team to walk through the event one more time and test the media, including the powerpoints, the video clips in the powerpoints, the laptop setup (for Kiva), and the display and sound levels of all of the films.

March 19th - March 26th

Hey everyone, so here is another update on what the Programming and Traffic Department has been up to this last week. So, we presented on the final master schedule to the class last week and it is nice to have a final schedule set in place. This past Monday we went through a walkthrough with Sandra and some of the members of ACE. We also met with Sandra on Thursday (3/20) to iron out the details of the setup notes. During this meeting, we read through the entire document, citing and confirming all of the equipment that we will need for the day of the event, how we will get it, and where it will be stored if it is not in use. Also, we discussed possible locations for the breakfast and dessert receptions. We had decided that it would be most convenient and appropriate to have the breakfast and dessert receptions over by the front of Lumina Theater (where the registration tables will be). In addition to this, we found out some good news that Cucalorus would like to submit a bumper for Visions; however, we would need to make sure we receive it in a timely manner and that it does not cross-promote both events. This upcoming week, Programming and Traffic and Operations departments will be meeting with Sandra again on Monday, March 31^st from 7pm-11pm to perform another walkthrough of the event with a media test. It is very difficult to believe that the event is only a week away!