Week 2 Week for 9 and 10 Finishing Quarter and Creating Storyboards

Week 9 and Week 10
-Transferred Pal tapes and began transfer of mini DV tapes to DVD for logging
-Watched "Wild life"
-Worked on and finished reverse storyboards for Benjamin Smoke and "Trembling Before G-D."
-Met with film team to discuss and interview new co-producer and interns. Also met to discuss time line for the project, roles and new grant opportunities.
-Wrote two drafts of self evaluation
-Met with tutor to clean up audio in the extended trailer and worked on posting it to You-Tube
-Talked with animators about getting sketches to me by January deadline
-Brainstormed fundraisers to have for TQ this next year and drafted new budget for grants.

Week 7 and 8 learning post production skills and DVD studio pro

-Finished reading Intro to Queer Theory
-Learned DVD studio pro and made a opening page for TQ DVD
-Sent off extended trailer to "Threat Level" film festival
-Kept in touch with animators and started to get ideas from them about the work they will produce for TQ.
-Watched "Before Stonewall" with group of queer folks and discussed the history of LGBTQ people afterward
-Went to Feminist video art at the Capital Theater learned about the history of feminist video art with all women production teams as well as different video techniques and artists.
-Put final touches on Soiree, getting donations for event and finalizing guest list
-Had a successful Soiree showing the extended trailer to donors and eating good food
-Logged footage of Serbian interviews and b-roll
-Had meeting with mediator on personal issues in the project
-Began research for Reverse Storyboard final project

Week1 through week6 weekly Schedules for Fall

Week 2 week schedule

Week 1, Beginning The Contract
Learning how to make a documentary film Post Production
Logged footage of summer 2007 interviews of Mijda, Scratch, Jenni and DebraKate for extended trailer footage
Read “In The Blink of an Eye” editing book where I learned about different techniques for editing. (See readings for longer description)
Finished syllabus
Talked to friend about tutoring on Final Cut pro
Had phone meeting with film team about interns and post- production schedule. Refined ideas for Interns and their roles in the project
Week 2, Learning final cut pro
Logged/captured/edited sequences for extended trailer with tutor and film team
Through doing this I learned the ins and outs of Final cut pro, this was a crash course in how to use this program.
Watched films of Sadie Benning with friends (See film viewing notes)
Transferred super 8 film in Seattle
Had alone date to log and capture footage for trailer, first time really working on program alone.
Continued to read “In The Blink Of An Eye” and started “Between the Sheets and in the Streets”(see readings)
Week 3, Learning final cut pro
Wrote a simple storyboard for extended trailer to use for editing
Made a skeleton of footage to edit for trailer
Helped in editing a 8 min. extended trailer for the Seattle Lesbian and Gay film festival which we finished on Thursday the 11th
Read “Between the Sheets and In the Streets” and “The Filmmaker’s Handbook” for technical and theory skills (see readings)
Watched “Paris is Burning” (see film viewing notes)
Week 4, Learning communication and post production film making skills
Started work on fall fundraiser, made invitation, contacted people to come and contacted people to help with event
Watched “Tongues Untied”
Finished “Between The Sheets and in the Streets” (see readings)
Had meeting with Film team to discuss fall fundraiser and interns
Week 5, Learning post production skills and editing skills
Made DVD of TQ extended trailer to watch at Fundraiser
Started to learn sound editing software and IDVD
Met with Julia to discuss progress of project and get feed back on Extended trailer
Watched Benjamin Smoke (See film viewing notes)
Started to read “Intro. To Queer Theory”
Week 6, Learning post production skills and editing skills
Met with Mediator for interpersonal work on the film with film team
Read “Intro to Queer Theory”
Logged/captured footage of Serbia, by region, for rough-cut.
Made new DVD with Julia corrections, learned how to compress film using Compressor software
Watched the films of Jem Cohen and “Outlaw”
Called Universities and posted Intern flyer electronically through out Seattle and Olympia
Had animation meeting with film team to discuss courting animators for our production, timeline for them to submit work and creative ideas for the kind of animation we want
Sent Pal tapes in for transfer to NTSC