Week 9 Check-In

This week I did absolutely nothing to contribute to Visions6. Ha, just kidding! On Monday Devon and I contacted Kimberly via email to discuss securing our location to film for the video race. Everything was approved, and the last thing we needed to do was send Kim a copy of the waiver that all of the participants must sign before competing in the race. Since sending that to her, we have not gotten any more requests, so it looks like we are good to go to film on campus! Because our launch date for the video race sign-up is going to be on the 18^th, we want to have our prop donation box ready by the following Monday on the 21^st. Last week I put in a marketing request to advertise where the box would be located and what we were looking for, for anyone interesting in donating props. I plan on checking with a couple of people this upcoming week to make sure it is okay to have our box outside of the Film Studies Office in King Hall. If it is not, I will see what our other options are and take it from there, though as of right now I am not too worried about it. Once we get the prop donation box set up and ready, Devon and I will start focusing on the number of participants and their t-shirt sizes so that we can get ready for our next big project involving ordering and tie-dyeing the shrts. I will save the details on that for another blog though since this week has been Spring Break and I was fortunate enough to get to go back to Charleston SC! For Spring Break last year I went there as well, but I had a bit of a cold and the weather did not want to cooperate. This year I took extra Vitamin C to prepare and the sun was out the whole time my Aunt and I were there! We ate, shopped, ate, took a ghost tour on the USS Yorktown, ate some more, went on a carriage tour, ate, went to the aquarium and saw their ridiculously cute otters, ate, went on a harbor tour, shopped some more, and ate a lot. Those free samples add up a’ight! Even though I ate a ton of food and walked everything, this trip was a blast! I worked hard from Saturday through Tuesday to allow myself to relax while in Charleston, however I stayed in contact with Devon and made sure to not fall behind. Kevin has told Daryl and I that aside from helping him with the installation when needed, our jobs as programming assistants will be pretty light from here on out. I can’t even begin to believe that Visions6 is literally only a little more than a month away though, and the closer it gets the more excited I get!