BVA203 W17 : Self Evaluation

Does your work contribute to your vision of where you'd like to be in five years?

The work I did for Think and Create was mainly to do with social interactions, data management and screening the event itself. All of which are in the field I want to go in, something I didn't really process until just now reading this question so that good :)

performance : 7/10 - I give it a seven because it worked out well - which is good - but I didn't really think of it during the year so I should probably have placed more importance on it and been more directional in the choices I made.

importance: 6/10 - This is a weird one to rate because the importance I gave it during the year was very low, but thinking about it now and going forward I think I should place greater importance on it. It is very important, I didn't treat it as such, so I give it an above average score.

How confident are you that your work has an impact?

For a lot of the time working on the event and being part of the subcommittees I felt like I did nothing of any real importance. Towards the end I found something for myself in which I could properly engage - that being screening the films and procuring the files for them. This felt like it added a lot, and seemed to be integral to the event. 


performance : 7/10 - I am confident that my work had an impact except for the fact that I feel like I could have easily been replaced by someone else - it's not exactly a job to which I brought a lot personally, just something important that needed doing, but which probably anyone else from the class could probably have done as well.

importance: 7/10 - I place a lot of importance on being confident that I'm having an impact, when I felt like I wasn't it was really depressing. When I did feel like I was doing something it was very satisfying.

How confident are you about the quality of your work?

The work I did on the night was shoddy, I had had some to drink and my job was so simple that very simple things sometimes escaped me. The switching and shutter timing went extremely well though. I think the data wrangling was the most smooth part of my addition to the event, getting things from people was very easy and fun to track down.

performance : 7/10 - I mean it was fine, only problem is I screwed up a couple of times with the lighting on the night. I was very happy with how well the data management went and how effortless it was to get everyone's films together, as well as getting them in order.

Importance : 5/10 - I don't think it was that important, just because the job was so simple and anyone else could have taken over. The mistakes I made on the night seemed to go over people's heads anyway and it is a student run event so it wasn't that important all in all.


Are you working with the right teams to deliver your vision and reach regular or new audiences authentically?

performance : 4/10 - 

Importance : 4/10 - 

Do you know your role, your relationship to others and how well you are performing within teams?

For most of the time working on this event I wasn't really informed what exactly to do, this was in the teams part of the event and I often felt that I was struggling to find areas in which I could help. I would ask whenever the opportunity presented itself but the tasks I was provided usually took less than an hour each and were so small scale and menial that I've forgotten most of them. 

performance : 4/10 - I rank this a 4 because for most of the event (up until the very end) I didn't really know what my role was meant to be exactly, I felt just like a runner. At the end I found a role with which I was comfortable and confident, but this didn't really require much in terms of working with large groups of other people. To be fair the teamwork here was excellent, maybe I should have rated it slightly higher...

Importance : 8/10 - I think it is a very important thing to know what your role in a team is, on the teams I were a part of I didn't feel like I had a designated role and subsequently felt very lost and at times completely insignificant. This is poor morale and with purpose people are much more productive, for this reason I think it is of high importance.

Do you get the training, professional development and on-the-job support you need for your role and to achieve your potential?



performance : 2/10 - Haha no. Although I guess I did when working with Ash, but that's not really part of the Think and Create Committee. 

Importance : 4/10 - At least it's not very important considering what we're doing.

Do you enjoy your work and find it satisfying?


performance : 7/10 - I do, or did, when I knew what I had to do and especially during the screening part of the event. 

Importance : 8/10 - It's very important for productivity and passion, but people can still work in horrible and bureaucratic situations I guess.


Do you have the right partnerships to deliver your vision?

I assume this is more about the sponsors and judges etc, of which we of course lost southsure, a six year partnership ended with one little tantrum.

performance : 6/10 - We didn't really have the sponsors required but oh well everything worked out well.

Importance : 6/10 - Can't be that important if we still managed even without Southsure, we'd probably be able to throw the event with half the partners we ended up having anyway.

How well do you collect, catalogue, store, retrieve and share information?

This I guess is more about how the group as a whole did - which I don't really know, although the discord server for bookmarks and stuff was pretty good, my own efforts were lacking because I didn't blog everything and have since forgotten a lot of what happened and when they happened.

performance : 6/10 - Discord worked well, I could have blogged better.

Importance : 9/10 - It is very important I think, especially when it comes to this evaluation stage. The discord and other records is helping a lot in writing up the group evaluation.

How well do you communicate?

Like everything else this seems more gray than what the scoring allows me to illustrate. Communication varied depending on when we're focusing on. Sometimes things went extremely smoothly - like acquiring the footage for the screening - sometimes it went very poorly - like organizing the ushers, something I had done and told Royce and yet Nik and Phil were still looking for ushers of their own accord.

performance : 5/10 - Sometimes very poor, sometimes good.

Importance : 10/10 - Probably the most important thing in getting things done, if no one knows what everyone is up to things go awry and nothing gets done, if communication is clear things go smoothly and actually, you know, progress.

Do your technical systems allow you to work smoothly, safely and effectively, both in teams and and in your own work?

performance : 6/10 - Personally I found Discord difficult to manage because of how often I would get notifications because of the many different sub-committee groups, some of which I wasn't even a part of, especially alongside all the other message apps on my phone that I have to pay regular attention to. I wasn't used to the system and found it somewhat over-complicated and frustrating. This was also very much my own fault for missing things though, as I could have checked on a daily basis. 

Importance : 8/10 - I think it's very important because missing things meant I missed meetings which meant that I wasn't always informed of what to do :( 

BSA 227 W16 : Compositing Hell

This week I composited my filmed project, a bevy of things went awry. Where do I begin?

1. Didn't film more

2. What I did film had no VFX or story tie in

3. Computers kept crashing and Camera Track wasn't working

4. Lost some of my shots

5. Lacked audio for others

I looked at this screen far too often, at times I had multiple computers going just to try and get one of them to go through the whole

I would have liked to put different drawings on the whiteboard - like a dick-butt or something - which I would have tracked, create a null object, pre-compose the solid, then place the the PNG above the solid and delete it, taking on the path of the solid - then changed the opacity on the drawing to blend it better.

I actually did a test to see if this would work first, it was with a dick-butt, unfortunately I didn't save this and lost it when I changed rooms.

I tried green screening the phone in Kiarne's hand here. It didn't work out great, the second one was a bit better because I changed the shape of his hand and the case of the phone on photoshop first.

The title worked well, I used the rotoscope brush to achieve this, and refined it a bit when it was too rough.

There was a lot more that I wanted to do:

- Explode Matthew's head at the end
- Put a mustache on him
- Replace mic with actual handheld mic
- More text/lyric type stuff
- And most importantly stuff on whiteboard.

It wasn't a great time and I am very unhappy with the final product but at least there is something here. I feel like premiere just wasn't cooperating, but then I shouldn't have left it so late.

BSA 231 W16 : Kiarne's Shoot

Last week and Monday we shot Kiarne's film (J.O.E). It was highly enjoyable. Here are some pictures:

BSA 231 W15 : My Shooting

This week we quickly shot something for mine. I wrote up this quick script:

My intention was for the script to continue and to have the other character show up, at which point I wanted to use Matthew's research project from earlier in the year as an example - where the characters don't really say much of anything and it's really quite depressing.

This didn't end up happening but my six hour shoot was more than filled to the brim with what I did have. 

Ill edit next week after compositing.

BSA 204 W16 : Different Approach

I found this in writer duet from last week - a different approach to the same doctor scene that I started.

INT. DOCTOR'S OFFICE - DAY

BARTHOLOMEW

It's not good on my heart Doc, I tell ya I need something different!

DOC DAN

Well hold your horses there now slick, what you're asking is highly unorthodox.

BARTHOLOMEW

All I'm asking is to get some sleep for once! Is that so much?

DOC DAN

Well now it's not what you're asking, granted many people have trouble with insomnia, but the context in which you've presented your case has me seriously concerned sir!

BARTHOLOMEW

The context of my case is that I've tried doctor after doctor and each in turn have directed me from proper treatment to psychiatry.

DOC DAN

You must understand why? Your claims are very unusual.

Beat.

BARTHOLOMEW

(offended)

Claims?

DOC DAN

(defensively)

I didn't mean it that way. I just--maybe I don't completely comprehend your situation.

BARTHOLOMEW

I'm telling you that it is a heart condition!

DOC DAN

Yes but exactly how? I'm not sure I completely understand, maybe you could just give it to me again?

2.

BARTHOLOMEW

Sure. Where do we start? On a weekly, or sometimes even bi-weekly, basis I have been experiencing hallucinations of a sort. Where there is a loud noise and a big fright and my heart is coming closer and closer to stopping again.

DOC DAN

Yes. As you say. But what exactly do you see in these hallucinations?

I didn't get very far before deciding to not take this approach, but I remember that I looked at the script for Psycho to find inspiration.

I'm thinking this might actually be more fun to film and I just have to build the film off of this stylistic base. But then originally I had the films of Yorgos Lanthimos serving as a great stylistic inspiration so i just need to go back to that...

BVA 203 W16 : Video stuff

Me and Matthew talked to Ash about doing the event on the night, we talked to him in person and also confirmed his involvement on fagebook.

We flicked Ash a text about flicks.

BSA 203 W16 : Questions for Ash

We have some questions that need answering.

- Dump it. How does the transfer of video files work, can the computer access the Y drive, would it be better to play from a hard-drive, or straight from the computer. Should we put it everywhere? Let's C0mpress.

- Mics? What's happening, how does it work - is it our department. Must be, we in the box. Should be easy, just ask.

- When can we set it up? (Ash recommended that we watch through the whole reel in order to make sure everything runs smoothly and there are no audio problems - audio levels tend to differ between films). Last year Ash did it on the day, before the event night, might take up all day...

- Ash wants to get drunk on the night, he's helpful when he's drunk though? But we'll do most of the stuff. He'll help setting up though? And also.

NOTE: How do we keep IMS out of the box??? Ash. Can we lock the box?

BSA204 W15 : Short Film Checklist

We got given a short film checklist that we can use, putting here for future ref.

BSA204 SHORT FILM WRITING CHECKLIST

• Who is your main character/protagonist?

• What is their objective?

• What is the inciting incident or "game changing" obstacle that throws their plans awry and is preventing them from achieving their objective?  (This can be another character – i.e. an antagonist – with a counter objective.)

• How does your protagonist react to overcome the obstacle and remain on course to achieve their objective?  Do they take a different path??  Ideally, a high-stakes choice should be involved to force your protagonist into a dilemma.

• Are there other obstacles to further complicate the situation?

• Character arc: what does the protagonist have to concede/give up/sacrifice in the final push to achieve their objective?  (Ideally, can you reincorporate a device/element that you seeded earlier in the story – maybe to help your protagonist achieve their goal?)  Ultimately, your protagonist does not need to succeed in their objective, but should have at least grown in some way – i.e. learnt some kind of lesson, changed in their outlook and/or redeemed themselves – as a result of this experience.

• Is there a surprise stinger/twist that you can add to the end of your story as a punchline or to help subvert audience expectation?  (Alternatively, you might decide to reincorporate an earlier seeded device/story element in this stinger.)

BSA 227 W15 : Filming First Scene

This week I filmed one scene from my script, specifically the speech that Dwayne gives about fire safety.

It was not my original intention to film this scene first, and if I did I wanted to film more at SIT - like the encounter with the hooded figure and the coroner flash back. My goal was to start with the scenes at the house, on Day 1 of filming I wanted to film the opening scene as well as the showdown with the Cleric.

Things did not go to plan, I only had a two hour gap on the first day to film, before shooting someone else's project and after getting gear. This meant it was easier to film at SIT and it also meant that I couldn't get that many shots done.

I have to film the rest next week - I am thinking Tuesday. Will have to cut down what I can film since there are two other projects on that day.

The problem with filming this scene is that it has no planned VFX shots in it, the whole point of this paper and assessment. I could potentially composite something onto the whiteboard and try to do it well enough that the viewer doesn't notice, but we'll have to see how it goes with next week.

BSA 204 W15 : Subtext

Last time in class (a class I missed) they looked at Subtext and did and exercise on it, where one team wrote bad on the nose dialogue and the other had to correct it, make it sound more natural and communicate the same points in a sub-textual manner.

Written by Izaiah and Sebastion

Re-written by Jacqui and Tyler

Written by Jacqui and Tyler

Re-written by Izaiah and Sebastion

Patrick pointed out that the part "I would expect, you would know manners, considering you used to be a teacher" is a bit on the nose still and that there is a better way to communicate this. I think a pedophile joke or saying something like "I hope you didn't pass on such manners to the children" (poorly worded). A better way to establish this information would probably be through the Mary-Anne character (she could point out he still treats her like a student).

At this point I was surprised that the relationships people came up with were so intricate and interesting. Good Job guy! 👍

Written by Matt B and Kiarne

Re-Written by Jean and Sam

Written by Jean and Sam