2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
T-18
Days to Go
13
December 2011
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Watched
Karen Everett “Editing the Chracter Driven Documentary” – Module #2: “Building Momentum in Act Two with a
Midpoint, Backstories and Reversals”
- Defining
the Second Act
- Second
Act Challenges
- Ramping up the action
- Getting lost
- The
Midpoint
- Literal life and death crisis
- A relationship crisis
- Character transformation
- Statement of
transformation
- Raising the stakes - ratcheting up tension
- Backstory
- Reversal - Catapults the story by forcing it to take a new direction
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
Warm
up on the MojoCaster
Pat
Metheny etudes exercise #1 bars 1-4 25X
Total time: 30 minutes
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Elliptical
Interval Training
15:15
Intervals
15
seconds > 140 rpm
15
seconds > 180 rpm
60
sets
Total time: 30 minutes
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
“Granby
Street” on the MojoCaster - focus: Lyric
work
“Dies Irae” – 25X run-throughs of the entire
piece
Focus
work on dyads and octave runs.
Total Time: 30 minutes
Notes: Eighteen days and counting.
Lessons Learned
Don’t Lighten Up, Tighten Up! – While keeping it
loose (Semper Gumby) is important, equally important is laser-like focus when
needed. Today, I did my guitar work without
the television on. Usually I knock out the
warm up exercises with the TV going. Sometimes
it is good just put check out and “let my fingers do the walking.” The warm ups are part physical preparation,
part self psych-out to let all the little worries of the day settle out of my
mind so I can focus on the tasks at hand.
Lately I noticed I was getting sloppy with the lyrics to “Granby Street,”
so today I started out practicing that song and kept the television off. I worked through the rest of today’s music
tasks with the television off as well.
The Pat Metheny etudes were smoother, and breaking them up into “sets”
of five made the task of twenty-five repetitions go faster. Ditto for “Dies Irae,” along with the focus
work for that piece. Narrow focus, drilling down to the essence of tasks is the beginning of mastery.
