Got the Go

Last Thursday I got the green light for the promo video series for the festival. Me and Jeff had a meeting to discuss the specifics and whatnot and I'm really excited to see this finally come together. There is four videos and I'm really hoping to get all of them dome but both Jeff and Katie don't think that will be possible since one of the videos is going to be a compilation of clips from past filmmakers and to make that we have to wait to get clips from them which might not happen till after I leave.

Also was given another quick project where I'll actually be working with Jeff Sparks which should be fun. It's a personal invitation from Jeff Sparks to past filmmakers to attend the festival this fall. He is currently out of town so when he comes back next week I'm gonna film it, edit it and turn it around for them in a couple of days.

These past few weeks a lot of things have been happening/changing in the office and while I'm obviously not in the loop with hardly any of it, I've been observing reactions of the people in the office. If any truth has been proved from interning at Heartland it's that communication is very key in any organization. Miscommunication brings confusion, frustration and unnecessary amounts of stress on all parties.

Only Me and Bob

Me and Bob were the only ones at the office today. Tim was there for maybe 20 minutes but he had to go to some film screening.

I try to learn something every day. I don't always succeed or rather I don't always realize that I've learned something, but today I got smacked in the face with a lesson: if you are ever a supervisor, someone's boss or in charge of a group of people, always, always be kind and grateful and let your employees [and even co-workers] know how you are thankful for their work.

Bob was going through his email and leans over to me and says, "Rikki, I've been worked into the ground recently [some changes have happened with positions, etc] and this is why I love Jeff [the President and CEO of HTMP]...." and he proceeds to read me an email that Jeff had sent him explaining how grateful he was for Bob's hard work in the midst of stressful time.

That's how you are to treat your employees.

I Never Liked Playing Limbo

I've been kind of in a limbo between projects and it's been difficult to find things to do when in all reality there isn't. I hope that I get to green light soon for my next project so I can work.

Stupidity Has Slowed Me Down

So today was a little slow at the offices because of my stupidity. I showed Jeff and Katie the One Film Can video and tweaked it a bit and then set about exporting the video. After an hour of waiting [during which I had lunch] I came back and reviewed it just to make sure....the audio ended before the video did. Such an amateur mistake, I nearly hit myself for it! I fixed it and decided to edit a few very minor things while I was at it. Here we go again, another hour wait. But after it was done I showed it again to Katie and Allison and they loved it. I got swarmed after the staff meeting by people who wanted to see it and it was kinda overwhelming....

I also was able to get a hold of Heartland's external hard-drive that they lent out over the weekend. For the past week and a half my computer's disk space has been full which doesn't allow me to save files or receive emails while in the office through Entourage, so I've been using my personal external which also was about to be full [since it's only 320GB]. Thankfully, the one I was just given is 1TB which is AWESOME! Don't have to worry about running out of space ever again [or at least here at my time with Heartland]. So now with this new room I am setting about cleaning up my computer and organizing files and what-not.

That is probably my biggest complaint as of right now [I don't like using "complaint" since it's more of just a nuisance then a real issue]. The company's MacBook Pro desktop is a mess and the hard-drive is just as bad if not worse. I really would love to go through and clean out unnecessary files and then organize the relevant ones into folders that are easily findable. But we shall see if that happens since I don't know which files/folders are to keep etc or if there is a certain way of organizing things [which I doubt since it isn't very organized in the first place].

Success! [well, almost]

Yesterday at the office I finished up a nearly complete [but still rough] One Film Can video and showed it to Katie, Allison and Jeff. They gave me great feedback - Katie and Allison gave me tips concerning the marketing aspect and Jeff gave me production tips. It's so nice having someone who understands production there to help and give advice [and to talk geek with while no one else understands a word you are saying. Always fun]. So, This weekend is my fix and finish weekend with this video and then on Tuesday I can say I have given Heartland my first completed project of the summer [not included archived workshop videos but I don't really count those].

It was nice to see the above three excited about the video. I can say I'm pretty happy with the [almost] final outcome of the video considering the equipment provided. I wish I could have kept the video quality consistent throughout the project but I guess we gotta do what we can with what we are given.