Project Schedule

    I have developed a timeline for the short film I plan to create. The process began this week, and the full project is to be completed in the middle of April. Here it is:

Week one

• Choose project genre(short film)
• Brainstorm narrative of said short film
• Research genre
• blog(2)

Week two

• Cont. Brainstorm narrative(finalize?)
• Cont. researching genre
• blog(4)

Week three

• IF NOT DONE: Finalize narrative this week
• Begin developing a script
• Think about technical elements of piece(look into microphones, editing, etc.)
• Think location, time, actors, wardrobe
• blog(4)

Week four

• Begin storyboarding
• Find actors 
• Buy necessary tech for production(based on week 3)
• IF actors found, develop a filming schedule
• blog(4)

Week five

• if not complete, finalize storyboarding and script
• Film
• blog(4)

Week six

• IF NOT DONE: continue filming(reshoots?)
• Begin editing
• blog(4)

Week seven

• Continue editing
• blog(3)

Week eight

• IF NOT DONE: finish editing
• Research ccr
• Begin ccr
• blog(3)

Week nine

• Finalize ccr
• Make sure all elements are exported and prepared BEFORE Week 10
• blog(3)

Week ten

• Post final drafts of everything to blog/youtube
• Reflection post

    In my roadmap, I believe I have given myself a sufficient amount of time to brainstorm and flesh out my ideas to their greatest heights. I feel like the initial creative process usually ends up being slightly harder than the actual execution for me, so giving myself three weeks to really sit on ideas for a narrative will work well in my favor. I usually binge edit for projects I need to edit and end up finishing them in roughly two or three very painful days, but given that this project is much more important and is foreseeably a video with a longer duration, I am going to give myself 2-3 weeks for it. The time I allowed myself for my CCR is pretty limited as a result, but I predict it will be the easiest component of my entire project so I am in no way worried about time. In general, I doubt that there is too much that will change in my schedule while it's working itself out; I feel I have much more time to flesh out certain aspects of my project this time around.