Schedule for the next few months

 To keep myself as organized as possible in this rough and complicated process, I have to make a schedule for the next 2 months and have goals to accomplish each year.

Week 1:

• Choose my project (already did this)
• Make a schedule (what I'm doing right now)
• I want to choose my genre for the short film or a basic idea of what I want to do with it

Week 2:

• Want to develop my idea more and focus on short films in the same genre or that capture what I'm going for (might split these two)
• Look at more short films and dissect their production more in-depth
• Depending on my idea, I want to learn how to do something that I will need for my project. As of right now, I want to look into how to create my own music for my short film and develop this skill throughout these weeks until I feel comfortable making my own to use. Music is one of the hardest parts of making a piece and being able to make exactly want I want, hitting specific beats, conveying the exact mood I want would be ideal in making my piece what I want it to be. But again, this may change depending on my idea and what I need in order to fulfill my vision.

Week 3:

• Look at other social media pages for short films. I have one in mind that I saw at All American High School Film Fest (Forever Young). This project also recently released the project on DVD and also made a CD from the soundtrack that the creators MADE. So stuff like this would be good to look at
• Begin planning out the short film EXTENSIVELY: first want to tackle basic storyboard with the big main shots scattered throughout the 5 minutes, getting a rough idea of the progression throughout the school. I would make a basic outline along with this storyboard to get a clearer idea of how I want the story to go and how I want it to look.
• Want to begin writing the script cause this is lowkey the hardest part for me. Making dialogue sound good is not very fun for me. But I'll try and get it started early so I can do some tweaks. 

Week 4:

• Finish up writing the script. Once I have this ready I can start making a super in-depth storyboard with every, single, shot. This is super important to me because first and foremost, I am a cinematographer. It's what I want to do and what I love the most. And with this piece I really want to push myself to making every shot eye-candy. It will NOT be easy, but I'll try my best.
• From this storyboard, I can make a shotlist which is crazy helpful on set, I used it for my film opening, Bungled, and holy crap what a godsend. I can also start looking at shooting schedules and seeing when my actors are free. 
• In these week, I'll be meeting with my classmates in groups and get some feedback on my idea and also get feedback on theirs. I'll be talking about this and what changes or realizations it led in terms of my project

Week 5:

• I will hopefully be starting production around this time, or at the very least start collecting props or other things I may need for the film 

Week 6: 

• God I hope I'm filming by now
• Hopefully starting to edit as well
• Also gotta start look at the critical reflection

Week 7:

• Should be editing in full force
• Chip away at critical reflection

Week 8:

• Wrap up editing

Week 9:

• Write my final thoughts on the entire process
• Post my critical reflection

This is great...but I'm not gonna be looking at my blog every time I want to see what I have to do...so I'm making a google calendar!! 

This is way more accessible to me and will help me keep on track way more than just making this big schedule and never looking back at it again. So next I'm gonna start looking at what genre I want to do and the basic ideas I might have...