Monday, February 9, 2009

Progress Report - Week 3 and 4

January 27 - February 2

2.5 hrs - Weekly Meeting - developed and discussed: Spring Fundraiser, pros and cons of seeking non-profit status, other ways of raising money, organization. 10 plus in attendance.

2 hrs - Creative Meeting - Shared visions for the summer festival which is at the heart of the project - discussed different workshops, art and music ideas; looked over Mikkae's 8-page proposal for a documentary on the festival.

30 min - Set up an account with Lynda. Watched preliminary videos.

2 hrs - Installing Wamp and Joomla on hard drive and computer and trying to get them to work.

4 hrs - Refining Vegas Skills on documentary: Editing, Color Correction, Text, Subtitles, and Credits; tryed to figure out text in photoshop

1 hr - Watching Vimeo videos

Feb. 3 - 9

3 hrs - Weekly meeting: formed separate committees for the Spring Fundraiser/ masquerade ball / mini-festival; website / magazine develoment; summer festival; and long-term business / non-profit organization plan.
Used a "talking stick" to go around the circle and get everybody's input on each branch. Approx. 10 in attendance.

2 hrs - Met with Molly to edit, revise, and learn the functions of our Wiki site; discussed vision for summer festival and how we would involve local businesses; discussed design of the website.

3 hrs -Installed Joomla and Wamp on lab computers, more lab comuters, reinstalled, reinstalled, reinstalled, other computers, other harddrives, more reinstalls. Success in opening Joomla's installation once - but immediately stopped working.

4 hrs plus - More practice in Vegas: editing, color correction, learning credits, and text, and Vegas's limitations.

1 hr - Watching YouTube docs

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