2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
T-29
Days to Go
2
December 2011
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Listened to Karen
Everett’s interview with Cynthia Kane of the Sundance Channel
Watched Karen
Everett's "Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Documentary" Week 3 video
- Doc Plot Map
- Cinematic style
- Protagonist's statements of desire and transformation
- Inciting incident
Total time: 1 Hour
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
MojoCaster
warm-up
Pat
Metheny – Etude #1 bars 1-4 25X
“So
What” - Miles Davis
Grace City songs
“Say
The Name”
“Trading
My Sorrows”
“God
of Second Chances”
“You
Are Here”
Total time: 30 Minutes
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Elliptical
Interval Training level 5
30
Seconds >140 RPM
60
Seconds >170 RPM
20
sets
Total time: 30 minutes
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
Details:
“Dies
Irae” – 25X in groups of five, allowing me to focus on execution
“Granby Street” –2X played on the MojoCaster
and slowed the tempo
R&B
riff work from Gospel Skillz DVD
E
– B/D# - C#min – A R&B chordal riff
work. Focus on smooth transitions and
tone.
Total Time: 30 minutes
Notes:
Twenty-nine days and counting. Let’s keep this list
of “Lessons Learned” going:
Lessons
Learned for today:
Be open to possibilities. Goals are just the start. Yes, you construct mini-goals to help you
reach the larger goals, but do not let your pursuit of those goals blind you to
other possibilities. If an unexpected
opportunity pops up while pursuing your goals, do not pass it by. Find a way t take advantage of that
opportunity and work it into the pursuit of your goals.
Program in some slack time. When I wrote up my daily goals for this
100-day countdown, I purposely was conservative with the daily numbers. I set the minimums low for the tasks so that
when I am pressed for time, there are things I can do to hit those minimum
numbers and be done with the daily tasks.
Conversely, when I have a lot of time, I can devote more time to tasks. My original plan was to stay close to the
minimums during the week, then put in a lot of hours on Saturday and
Sunday. After the first few weeks, I was
able to hit the minimums during the week and put in a lot of time on
Saturday. Sundays were another story. I never seemed to be able to pack in the same
hours I had done on Saturday. I realized
that I have to have some down time, so I allowed myself to slack on Sunday and
aim for the minimums. Using Sunday as a
programmed rest day ensures I am fresh on Monday and ready to hit the ground
running.
Use the Seinfeld trick. I read somewhere that Jerry Seinfeld’s secret
to cranking out the scripts for season after season of “Seinfeld” was a simple
set of tools, a large calendar and a red marker. He vowed to write something for the show
every day and every day that he wrote something, he would put a big red “X” on
that date on the calendar. He said that
he became hooked on the satisfaction of seeing entire weeks, months, and
eventually years completely marked out, and the result was a continual flow of
material. For me, this blog is my
calendar and marker, but I also have a Franklin Covey fold out calendar and I
shade in each day I work on the film with an orange highlighter. January looks a little sparse, but by March,
I hit the groove and have shaded in every day.
