Not only did I not get the assignment in by 11am, I didn't even get it in by 1pm! It won't matter though - the box hadn't been cleared. Maybe assignments are no longer due by 1pm? No one has mentioned it for a long time; I just always assume they are because that was the way it was in first year.
ANYWAY I did not succeed in achieving my goal. I did not realise until it was too late that the shift I had accepted a few weeks ago - to work at the Tua fight - was actually on the night before the assignment was due, and would be eight and a half hours long (they never tell us finishing times; only starting times). I did try to overcome this problem! I took my laptop and asked my manager if I could sneak off and work in the store room late in the night, which I did for an hour and a half. Anyway, no excuses, I did not meet the deadline simply because I did not start working on the essay early enough. We had been told about it in about the second week of term for goodness sake! And it hasn't even been a hard term. But I will do better next term! I have to - it will be cut short by about a week as I am going to China.
We're probably not supposed to be continuing these blogs through the holidays, but I'm going to have a goal for the holidays anyway: "following through on commitments made".
And these are my commitments for the "holidays":
- Ask actors to be in our 48 hour film festival team.
- Meet with 48 hour team and submit application by no later than the 8th of April (closing date is the 9th).
- Go location scouting this week until I find at least one (and preferably two) location of each kind (I need one city location and one bush location) that I would be happy to film in, so that I can offer them up to Lisa to work on securing.
- Post around my casting notice to various sources and organise auditions for next week.
- Work on my website and create a section where I can put information about the TVC for my crew.
- Research my documentary idea to the point where it will be ready to pitch by the pitching class (first Monday of term), not the actual pitch date. Think of at least one alternative idea, in case the first one is not feasible, and begin researching.
I can think of more things that I would like to add, but I should give myself a fair chance of actually achieving these things so I will stop there.
Hey Rose,
ReplyDeleteLooking at your goals for the 'holidays' I think your doing pretty well.
I know you've been asking actors to work with on the 48hours, however most are too busy with Shakespeare is it? Anyway I haven't heard back from Scarlet yet, let me know if you want me to contact the guys.
The 48hour registration/application is still a little iffy without enough actors. I'm ready to put it in when I get the go ahead, which needs to be asap.
On location scouting, I just got a txt from you saying you might have found us a good location so I can see that you are making progress on that, can wait to hear more about it.
And about the casting brief for our TVC, just letting you know I've just done it and its up and running. Would you like me to put it into some agencies or just wait till we find out what turns up from StarNow?
Have heard that you wanted to do that website for the TVC and it did work well in our studio last week so maybe that would be a good way to head now?
All in all, 4 out of 6 is pretty good for half way through the first week of the hols!! Keep up the long posts! =) I hope this is helping!!