Crash and burn….
Life goes on (Thanks Garrett!)
I didn’t have it in me yesterday to begin this blog. What a day…October 33rd. Today I am no longer seeing debris from the mushroom cloud nor do I feel the sting of my anger regarding the harsh words from folks who have no idea what exactly goes into what you guys do each week, how hard you work, the collaboration that happens with such a diverse group or how truly amazing you are. (Yup, I ended in a preposition, after yesterday…it is a small thing.)
If you see Mr. Ammons, tell him how cool he is, he worked in the control room after hours yesterday to make sure that we don’t have anymore technical difficulties regarding audio. We no longer have to switch between the DV device and the DVD player (I blame the MRSA video).
As a reflective practitioner…I know, right…you love it when I say that!
Here are my thoughts and thus my POA - Plan o’Action:
- Find and clearly define the fine line between creative freedom and other important stuff (like deadlines, etc)
- A deadline is a deadline and there will be no show on Friday if there is no show on Wednesday. CAPICE? (ka-peesh, it’s Italian, remember my maiden name?) CAPICE - Demanded agreement) Would this have saved some embarrassment were there only the technical difficulties note rather than a very small piece of an 11 minute show with no audio? I’m thinking…. yes.
- Determine the procedure for the equity in editing to be a non-issue, see THE SCHEDULE ( yeah, I went there – back to the elementary pocket chart thingy – sorta)
- Create the “this is how we do it” map for saving and backing up ALL imported items so that we don’t have cool features that are MIA (ie: rolling down the hill)
- We discovered this week that there is an I in We, two of them. (Thanks Josh, aka Jacob XD) But there isn’t an I in RamTV. Our team will produce a show that everyone participated in the post production of…(another preposition…that’s odd) Reference – THE SCHEDULE
- An appropriate address for the drinkers of haterade…I am really leaning toward “I like pie” or the awagg smile of confusion. =) The important thing is that we all remember that ugliness spewed in their direction is only going to add fuel to the fire, and this doesn’t help the situation. It makes us scapegoats and this is not GoatTV.
Recap:
1 – Room A 211 closes daily at 3:30 The Studio Shutdown
(please add Mack’s fun voice here, it was very useful to me yesterday at lunch time)
2 - RamTV Show 5 completed by Wednesday
3 – There will be (from this day forward) no day-of or day-before editing.
4 – If there is no show on Wednesday, there will be no show Friday (Kapish?)
5 - See schedule of editors for shows (yes, I went there)
If all else fails, smile like awagg, use Mack’s funny voice and say something random involving pie. Jon will apologize for it later.
Tell me how you feel:
What will next week hold for us?
What are your thoughts on the new class procedures (closing time, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here, THE SCHEDULE)
Will the next show (Show 5) be ready on Wednesday?
What were your thoughts regarding two of next semester’s staff members “owning” the pain with us?
Final thoughts:
In the words of a Jedi Master “Impressed was I, very impressed”. You guys impressed me on Friday during the staff meeting…you didn’t dwell, you listened and you moved on. Proud am I! What do you think, can we call our meetings, Staff Meetings or do you prefer C.T.J. Mtgs still?
I am a lucky girl that is why the ‘juice’ doesn’t sting so bad.
Awesome job, nice tidy title, amazing folks around me….what more could a girl want?!
KUDOS -
To the RamTV Staff, you weathered a storm...together.
Caleb for completing production work with Comp Apps team
Trey & Mack for nearing completion with the Engineering projects.
My HEROES this week:
Garrett (the tat that gave me the mantra)
Mr. Poston (it ALWAYS pays to be a gentleman)
Martin (Who took one with the team)
Josh (...actually there are two I's in we...Wii)
The RamTV fam (yousguys are my fav)
8 comments:
Next week, students will be expecting to see a show with no technical difficulties and one that is put together and completed on time.
The new schedule rule about staying after really bugs me, but I realize that it is a necessary rule. If we don't finish during class, then we need to make plans to come in early before school starts.
I believe that the next show will be ready in time since we are now more concentrated and realizing that the deadline needs to be met before we broadcast the show.
I think that it's great that next semesters students are doing their best to help out with the show, I really appreciate their help.
I would really prefer calling them Staff Meetings because calling the CTJM makes me feel like we are in trouble.
I don't know what you would want, but I know that I want a million $.
Well I think that the show will go on and we will get this weeks show done on time. crashing and burning ewwww I like fire hehe jk. I will try to be stress free but I can not promise my temper will dispear. I love the new class pocedures and I love that others felt our stress and pain. everything will work out.
this week was a hard one, but for all that happend i think we handled well. esp. mrs L b/c i woulda flew all over whoever was being mean(even tho u not supposed to do that it makes it worse XD)I think the new schedule is a good idea, i think itll help us out a lot w/ organization and timing. If we do this plan i think we can get the show done by Wed. i think we are a great team and we all work well together so we'll do great ;)
To tell you the truth, I don't have a clue. Next week is a short week and I'm just taking everything as it comes.
I think that it's a good idea so that we all get on it when we need to and not have the "oh I can do it later" mentality. Because I think we've all had that mentality some time or another since it is stressful.
God I surely hope so. =p
I think that it was really cool that people from next semester helped us, because they know what we're going through since they'll be going through it next semester. Also they can ask us for help next semester because we're all here for each other.
Haha, yeah this is a short one for me...=p
I really think that this crash and burn was beneficial to our advancement as a group. We really need to learn how to work better together. I think that the "new deal" will be great if we can work together. We need to communicate better and ALL OF US WORK TOGETHER. We can have all the things done if we work hard and are productive. I think that it might be good if we communicate in a way that each of us knows what the other person is doing. Some people need to be keeping up on current events at the school and filming them. Some people need to make sure we are all on the same page about the upcoming shows and their continents. And as always the editors need to be editing all the time. If we can all communicate and pull our load the shows will get done, but until then we will crash and burn again and again. And if one person goes down we all go down.
I think that maybe the crash last week will show us how important it is for us to work as a team. I think that having the new class procedures will make us work harder during class time. This week is a short week so if we are not done by Wednesday then it will not be done at all. Friday we completed a lot. But the key to this show working is going to be everyone working not just a few. All 12 of us are going to have to edit and tape. I really am not even sure what i typed or what happened last week but I know we have to move on.
The show this week will be flawless and it will be done without any extra time done before or after school. The new schedule rule is ok with me, because I mean it is staying after school, and school is ______. But seriously though, this rule will make us more pressured and "like NYC water pipes, I work well under pressure!" I beleive that the next show will be amazing because we got a jumpstart on it and we are prepared for a golden/glorious/splendid show. We need to meet the WEDNESDAY deadline. I love that other kids are helping out with the show. Today I went out to eat with Ryan Gilbert. He is in engineering and he said "wow, RamTV really is hard." He is a good man, so this really means something. I like the CTJM title because it is laid back and alows me to feel at home, or at church (JK). This class is still amazing and the L-meister is still the most educated person me and AWagg know.
last week:
****** [6/10] for RTV
********* [9/10] for life
ok well i love your totally long and totally random ADD blog today. XD
but yea...lets see what to answer and comment first...hmmmm.....
-I feel in our wondermous group of 12 that we have sooooo much creativity and you have given us the freedom to create amazing things. But we can get too big sometimes and not focus on the bigger picture sometimes (the actual friday show) so while we were great with our ideas the show was a failure to launch friday. :( but its ganna get better. :)
i was not in on the meeting friday but some of my peeps caught me up. I like the idea of finishing a show wednesday. and the chore wheel (assignment of jobs) is needed for now until we all can become good at doing everything without it. SCHEDULE!!!! (scary dun dun dun music and lightnign flashes!!!)
Please everybody...label movies what they exactly are...not My Great Movie 7 or My Great Movie 354
!!! XDXDXD
so yea... Haterade! Flavor: Thank You But No Thank You.
The address should be nice. Give out what we were not given. Be the bigger person here. XD so yea. it will be good if we do a quick address and say we don't appreciate the comments very much. Only constructive goodness for RamTV! woot!
Me and Cristy and Miss will miss stayin after here till bout 3:50 doin nothin but alas its best for our show. Cause we need to be on top of things and lately we've been under a lot of things.
I may have missed the CTJ meeting but i was glad to help the Comp Apps peeps.
i am soooo lost on your heroes section this week lol (haha caleb doesn't get it...not surprising lol)
But yea...I like where were going. These are temporary fixes (schedule n such) that will improve our team as a whole and make the best RamTV ever!!!
on another note i had a great weekend. Hope yall did! XD
Luv Ya
-Hollywood!
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