Ardath Rekha

1. So I've recreated ardathicons on DW, and ported over one of my icon posts from IJ. More to follow there. I might even get to make more icons this summer.

2. Status of my final project for the DVD authoring class: I've hit some kind of snag that keeps aborting the burn. I've narrowed it down to one of two assets on the disc volume... tomorrow I get to test out which one it is and brainstorm the solution with the head of the department, a man who is pretty much The God of Engineering. I have a solution or two in mind; we'll see which ones he thinks are promising. The DVD must be burned by Monday.

3. Status of my final project for the Advanced Video Editing class: Due Tuesday. I no longer hate it. I still have color-correction to do, and possibly some more video assets to add. But I feel in control of it. This is good. This is very good.

4. Status of my final project for Film Production II: The film arrived back from Alphacine last night. Today I took the telecine'd footage into the lab and captured it all to one of the Avid machines. I am deeply annoyed by several shots because one of the two DPs I was working with wasn't paying any kind of attention to what I asked of him, got the shot scales and the framing wrong on several key pieces of footage, and didn't understand what side of the camera some of the actors were supposed to be on. Since I was concentrating on directing the cast, and he kept assuring me he knew what he was doing, I didn't realize until it was too late. All of his stuff may need to be reshot. On the plus side, though, the performances and the lighting were awesome all around, and the other DP rocked. Now I have until Tuesday to get my rough cut done and a fine cut started. Yeah, who needs sleep?

5. Status of web project for my African-American Lit professor: about what you'd expect, really. None of my classmates have turned in their final versions of their pages yet. At least, not to me. A few say they've turned them in to her for final approval, so that counts for something, but until it gets to me it doesn't get up on the webspace. Which, meanwhile, is in flux because one department head says it should be on one university server, while another says it shouldn't... and we haven't been granted ftp access to either one as of yet. So I'm collecting the few files I already have on my computer, processing them with DreamWeaver, and waiting for definitive word. Fortunately she knows I'm on top of everything I've actually got, and she's really very relieved that I've said I'll keep working on it this summer and next year with her, so I think I'm keeping her happy enough.

Wow. That's a lot of stuff. But really, I'm starting to feel on top of all of it. A week left until the end of school. I'm going to be SO TIRED when it wraps, but not badly off. Still no idea whether or not I still have a scholarship (or even still want it, because the course load has been increasingly gruelling and stressful and I've fallen so behind in housework it's rather scary) but no matter what, I'm going to keep plowing through.

In... well, eight hours, anyway. XD