Production Report B

        More of my script, very very rough sorry

Form
     Same as the other one, it's still in script form which I think fits well. I did include some sort of transition things I may want to add to give it some humor and so its not just my face people are watching in the video. It's rough but it is just right now scratch ideas.

Genre
      It fits genre conventions, because its stick with the idea that this will be generated into video format soon and its a script to read and for some formation of the other dynamics of the video

Outline Item
  Work in Different Genres

• I have previous experience in lots of genres, conventional writing, poetry, video, podcast, blog platforms
• Proof share? show poetry and/or other podcast?
• This has probably helped me this semester
• I already knew different format conventions for the different genres so I knew what to expect a little better
• How mucbh did it helped tho?
• I was still fucking confused

Adaptation of Outline Item

Overall I didn’t have problems with the subjects in this class that we were analyzing, I had previous experience in analysis of rhetorical situations, perhaps not in the exact way this class presented it but definitely before. In fact nearly my entire last english class was about analyzing strategies within works and it feels like that helped tie in a bunch of research in this course.

Now I want to talk to you about the different genres we did in this class, and how I think I had a bit of a leg up on it all, and that maybe that helped me overall. The different genres we had to do included a standard college essay, a podcast, a video essay and a QRG. I started off with a QRG and it went fine, but I still don’t exactly know what a QRG is.I figured with writing experience it couldn’t be that hard, having written plenty of papers, poems and blogging otherwise it couldn’t be that bad. I still don’t know where I went wrong. *slow dramatic panning over QRG with some crime show like music dramaaaaa*

The podcast for the second project went a lot better. My experience with podcasts was a lot more recent too, I had just created one the previous semester with my roommate, and while the podcast never went farther than a few episodes, combining that with my knowledge of how a podcast should sound from listening to things like Welcome to Nightvale, and Wolf359 *show cover art for both*, I was able to formulate my podcast pretty damn well. I knew how much speaking and transitional music would give it a professional quality and not distract or detract from what was being said. So I think in that instance I really had used my previous experience to my advantage in regards to conventions and the like

The third project was most comfortable to me because it was public argument *scene from Legally Blonde about being comfortable about using legal jargon in everyday* and so I did it in my most comfortable format, the essay. I’ve probably written like 200 essays in my life so it was easy to get this one out of the way and done pretty well if I do say so myself. It was a good one to do during the time period it was, with a lot of other projects and tests I was able to finish it well. It seemed like a lot of how well it went in this class was connected with how you paired the projects with a certain genre.

Production Report A

      WHoo starting in on that good ol rough draft are we, yes we are, I am exhausted but fuck it here it goes. SOmewhat

Form
        The form for this adaptation of the outline is just in script form, as I'm trying to get it done quickly so that I can film it soon. The form is very loose since I mostly just want to talk to the camera freely since it's a personal reflection and not a specific study or argument like the previous projects. I think in the genre convention sense this fits with video essay because its a script in the loose sense and there's a lot that will be up to the situation that I will be recording in. Also its very rough because I gotta figure it out as I go

Production
         The production challenge here was feeling he motivation to actually get the work done instead of just sleeping or studying for a test tomorrow or any number of things that also really need done. But whatever its coming along pretty well if I do say so myself. Creative epiphany: I may not be able to do an Elle Woods video, I can certainly include at least one clip from it.

Outline Item
Opening:
        Introduce myself and what I'm going to be talking about (me), discuss premise of the work, meaning why I'm talking about it, what exactly I'll discuss which i think will be how this helped me with time management and where/how I often worked. I don't think I'll need much to grab attention except for myself, I mean come on pretty girl (considering the Elle Woods Harvard entrance video type of video essay because wouldn't that be hilarious).

Body:

      Time management

• Much of the work I accomplished on the weekends because of other work
• Proves I learned scheduling
• Working straight for 5 hours- efficient? bad? Doing most my work in a tea shop and how that probably helped or hindered
• Socializations effects on my work and quality of work
• studies on how much work is good at a time
• Choosing which blog posts and the like would be done first and which I could quickest and what needed to be in certain order, weighing to pros and cons I suppose
• Balancing work load

Adaptation of Outline Item

Intro:

Hi everyone, well it’s me, Alexis, I’m coming to you today to talk about everything that’s happened this semester in a moment of self reflection upon my different writing experiences in this English course. To start off with I’d like to say that this has been the most effort I’ve had to put in to an English class probably in years, it was a ton of work. The major points of reflection in this work include my new skill of time management, how working in different genres before all this was helpful, and how working with others throughout the course was a big deal.

Body P 1:

I came into this class like, alright I got this it's just English. And I promptly missed the first deadline. It flew by me and I practically hadn’t even noticed it until the next day and half of those awful long blog posts weren’t even close to being done. I think this course has been primarily a learning experience in time management, because balancing about 20 blog posts throughout the first couple of projects was really terribly hard with everything else, especially when I then added 10 hours of ant observation every week to the pile, the time within which I could do the necessary work for this class was shortened even more. I gave myself the weekend always, but with the 20+ blog posts it was still majorly rough. Real time management didn’t come to me until after the first project was done and most of the second project was done as well. By then post size had been halved so it was easier.

I think a main part of my time management came through that I would always work for about 5 hours straight at Scented Leaf, the tea place I spend my life at. I would go and do this nearly every Saturday and get the majority of work done. Perhaps not efficient use of time but it was how it started out. Of course this eventually morphed better where I wouldn't only take that time to do all the English work, spreading it out during the week , which was necessary because of both the workload and because I had begun to make friends at the tea house that would endlessly talk to me and my work was no longer undisturbed or efficiently done. So there were pros and cons of working there.

Another aspect of the time management for this class was trying to prioritize things like blog posts and research and writing. I had to figure out what I could get done in a certain amount of time and what could stand to be late or done in ten minutes to be redone later, better. I don’t have much to add to this yet gotta think about it. But i want to talk about it. This class overall has helped me with getting better at time mangement yeas

Production Schedule

Opening:

• What is to be done: Writing of script, record self. pick background intro music
• Location: somewhere outside? woman's circle perhaps it's very pretty
• Planned date & time: Hopefully script is written by tomorrow, video hopefully by Friday
• Resources required: Computer, me
• Date completed:
• Changes made after completion & reasons why:

Body:

• What is to be done: writing of script, recording myself, take screenshots of other work to show in this section, choose music
• Location: Different places, probably smart to do some of it in the tea shop since I did half the work of this class there. Maybe my room, outside again
• Planned date & time: This weekend, next week will be revision
• Resources required: Computer, me myself and i
• Date completed:
• Changes made after completion & reasons why:

Closing:

• What is to be done: writing script, recording myself, finish it off strong with some motivational music probably
• Location: outside, or this one will be somewhere else that I haven't filmed before, somewhere to make the video seem full circle
• Planned date & time: also this weekend, i want to have a completed rough of everything by this weekend so I can get everything else done
• Resources required: Computer once again
• Date completed:
• Changes made after completion & reasons why:

Content Outline

       And now on to the final project! I'm trying to get ahead on this parts so I can begin recording because it's a video to do!

Opening:
        Introduce myself and what I'm going to be talking about (me), discuss premise of the work, meaning why I'm talking about it, what exactly I'll discuss which i think will be how this helped me with time management and where/how I often worked. I don't think I'll need much to grab attention except for myself, I mean come on pretty girl (considering the Elle Woods Harvard entrance video type of video essay because wouldn't that be hilarious).

Body:

      Time management

• Much of the work I accomplished on the weekends because of other work
• Proves I learned scheduling
• Working straight for 5 hours- efficient? bad? Doing most my work in a tea shop and how that probably helped or hindered
• Socializations effects on my work and quality of work
• studies on how much work is good at a time
• Choosing which blog posts and the like would be done first and which I could quickest and what needed to be in certain order, weighing to pros and cons I suppose
• Balancing work load

      Work in Different Genres

• I have previous experience in lots of genres, conventional writing, poetry, video, podcast, blog platforms
• Proof share? show poetry and/or other podcast?
• This has probably helped me this semester
• I already knew different format conventions for the different genres so I knew what to expect a little better
• How mucbh did it helped tho?
• I was still fucking confused

       Working with Others

• I worked with others a lot in this course
• People in class on their project and teamwork for little project
• Collaborations on podcasts for voice differences, that one time we had to make a video essay in class
• Importance of having others check over work
• Peer reviews helped in most cases
• Boyfriend found like 10 instances of "quite ridiculous" in my last essay

Closing:
        Closing this project I will express my joy at being done, my enjoyment of the class and why this project was even worth doing. This all overall was important because my writing style has probably changed a lot over just this single semester and I will be surprised to see how much more it may change. This self reflection is important to see how character has changed in relation to work and how my motivation for writing is more driven now that I know I can accomplish so much in so short a time.

Peer Review for Rhiannon Bauer

Who: Rhiannon Bauer

What: Revised Post to Peer Reviewers

Activity: Copy-Editing Suggestion
        I suggested a lot of edits that would help increase her arguments impact and make her argument more clear, like changing wording and emphasizing some ideas. As well as cleaning up some of the phrasing. I did this all in direct editing or suggestions and not actually in a comment post.

Helped?
         I think I helped a lot, I gave her a bunch of suggestions to help the essay flow a little better and show her argument more clearly.

Incorporated
         The idea of specificity and clarity of argument

Admired
       She had good arguments and points, I admired her decision in choice of argument and approach.

Peer Review for Avalon Lubera

       Time to give feedback really late in the game    

Who: Avalon Lubera

What: Revised Post to Peer Reviewers

Activity: Copy Editing 
        Suggested to her to have more citations incorporated into her work to increase her credibility

Helped?
        I think I helped her so hopefully she would have more credibility in her argument so people would listen to her.

Incorporated
       Incorporated the importance of having credibility

Admire
       I admire her choice of argument, it's a pretty important topic that needs more notice

Reflection on Two Weeks

     Not necessarily two weeks, but near enough, until the end of the school year, and isn't that terrifying.

Successes
        Well I got everything pretty done, gonna check over the fine cut once more before I turn it in, but I think overall this was a really successful essay.

Challenges
          Trying to find good arguments was the main challenge and trying to see what I could fix in the final paper  through my own eyes is hard, since I think it sounds right.

The Future 
          Well I've got busy weeks ahead and the last project still to come, so I think while stressful, its so close to the end its best to just work it through

Feelings
        I would say STRESS, is the main feel I got nowadays. But mostly not with this class