Month: October 2020

 

SUMMARY

• Essentially, we went through the Sneak on the Lot beginner course, and learned some things there. Afterwards, we were to be creative, and think of a screenplay.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• A crash course that goes over the basics of Davinci Resolve. Although I’m already familiar with it, it’s nice to go through the basics once in a while.

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Sneak on the Lot:
• Theater: It’s explained on to navigate this site, how reviewing, the scoring, etc.
• Fade In: An application on how to write screenplays easier. Giving things like Scene Headings, Action, Character, Dialogue, etc.
• The Game: Essentially the “scoring” of Sneak on the Lot. How people review your work gives you “fame”, this fame is given based on certain film challenges.
• Challenges: Challenges to incentivize users to want to make and enter their films. There’s also a quiz that has to be taken afterwards.

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• For a story, I feel like if I were my own protagonist, I would honestly be my own nemesis. It wouldn’t be much of a story about winning something, but so much as just going through days. Considering social distancing (as a setting), there wouldn’t be many characters. It would mostly be a story of motivation on doing things.

What is Workflow?

“A workflow consists of an orchestrated and repeatable pattern of activity, enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information.” – Wikipedia

Stages of Creation Development

Inspiration

How do we find ideas to develop?

We find ideas to develop by just general thinking. This thinking could be greatly accelerated by different tools and processes. Inspiration is especially important for thinking of ideas, looking at other examples is extremely important. Quality of inspiration is measured by you, and the people you might be working on a project with.

Intention

How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?

Tools we could utilize for clarifying goals are just forms of communication. Texting, emailing, etc. could all be utilized to clarify our goals. As for the process, we could we could talk to each other, bounce ideas, and see if something is a good concept. Quality of intentions is always down to the individual.

Pre-production

How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?

Bouncing ideas off each other is essential to pre-production. Double checking ideas to make sure they work, talking with others, etc. These are all ideas that require other individuals, or if the individual is talented, a whole lot of work for checking their ideas.

Production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.

We could communicate with others during production, since each person during production has a specific job to do for projects, it’s important to understand what each person’s perspective is. We execute plans by telling everyone our intentions behind the action, and our general ideas. Those who are most qualified in each field should speak out first, while those who want to give suggestions could also give them.

Presentation/Performance

How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?

We could obviously publish our work online, and even ask friends, or other people that we want to ask. An example of that is submitting a film for a contest (like Satchel did), to give out our projects to the world.

Feedback

How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?

Knowing where pieces of feedback come from is especially important. If given out by anonymous sources, their information might be unreliable, however, if they are qualified people that are interested in fields of art, for this instance film, then their feedback should be held to more importance than others.

Born: August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii

Personal Success Definition

I define success of one who is memorable to at least hundreds of people.

Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, making a lasting impact on the United States, and the world, as a whole.

Skills for Success

Obama is: 1) A politician. 2) A leader. 3) Charismatic. Barack was born in Hawaii. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he became the first black man to become president of the “Harvard Law Review”. After that, he eventually became a civil rights attorney, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. After that, he became a member of the senate, for Illinois. He eventually ran for president, and won, winning 2 terms in a row.

How He Used These Skills

Obama utilized his leadership skills to be well recognized in his communities, with being president of the Harvard Law Review, and eventually teaching a class, then running for senate to then a president. Obviously, being a politician requires some charisma, which he utilized to have support for him.

Challenges Overcome

Obviously, since Barack is a minority, it may have been more difficult for him to gain support from others, yet he overcame this challenge with his skills, and I would imagine it to be difficult to get into law school, and such.

Significant Work

Obama, after graduating from Harvard, eventually got himself up to become president of the United States, which is a significant achievement in it of itself. Not only that, but he was elected twice, showing general favorability towards the American population. With this image showing his inauguration.

Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama#:~:text=The%20first%20inauguration%20of%20Barack,the%20commencement%20of%20the%20first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Post-presidency_(2017%E2%80%93present)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/barack-obama/