Week 4: Wrap Up/Roll Update

Hey folks.

So obviously this week was light on content. My apologies for that, I got pretty burned out after working hard on the only piece of content I have to present this week. Which, by the way:

Everybody is John was released this week (if I word it like this it makes it seem like people wanted this). So this project was a two parter, and I had a brief write up last week. Last week was putting everything together and cutting out the filler. So what I did this week was massaging the edits to be less obvious and adding all the sound effects. I'm still proud of this a week later, and I've actually gotten really positive feedback. It's an hour and fifteen minutes long, and you can download it and listen to it "on the go" or you can also not listen to it. But I worked very hard on it and it is actually entertaining if you ask me or a handful of other people. Also huge shouts out to Victor, Austin, John, and Joseph for doing this oh so long ago.

But that was it for this week. Yeah I know. I was burned out and got pretty busy with Halloween parties and such. I also was an actor for a couple of Fox students recently, so that took some of my time as well. And maybe I'll post those as they are released. But I'm making up for this lack of content by providing you with an updated roll list.

Roll List v2

1. Write a short story/script 
2. Watch a movie I’ve never seen and review it 
3. Analyze one of my favorite albums 
4. Analyze one of my favorite movies 
5. Analyze one of my favorite songs 
6. Write about a director/cinematographer/etc. I love 
7. Write about anything 
8. Read, write about it if it’s interesting 
9. Take notes on a film as I watch it 
10. Analyze the sound of a scene 
11. Recreate the sound of a scene 
12. Mix a song 
13. Video Essay 
14. Write/record a radio play 
15. Shoot something, anything and edit it 
16. Record one Podcast 
17. Music video without music 
18. Work on Jonesy and the Big Chap animation 
19. Create/record 2 sound effects/build sfx library 
20. Roll a D-6. If even, pick any activity 1-10; if odd pick 11-20

I only changed three rolls, which were "Listen to an album I've never heard", "Write about an artist", and "Change the sound of a scene entirely". Hopefully no one was looking forward to any of those. But I needed to cut down on music ones and wanted to add some creative writing. I'm not big on 9 and 12, but who knows. Maybe they'll be great. Maybe I'll change them again.

Also I'm gonna switch up the rules here. Following more classically in suit with my father blog, I'm gonna start rolling five times, and do at least three, and fit more in if I have time. I think giving myself some wiggle room will be good. Or maybe I will just fail two more times a week. Anyway, enough house keeping, the rolls for this week:

2, 3, 11, 12, 10

Those are "Watch a movie I've never seen and write about it," "Analyze one of my favorite albums," "Recreate the sound of a scene," "Mix a song," and finally "Analyze the sound of a scene". I'm pretty excited to tackle these, maybe with the exclusion of mixing a song, but only because that requires procuring a song. But we'll see what I can get done! See you in a week. And also, days in between that week.

The Big Idea

Oh hey. I'm Matt. I'm a recent film grad feeling a little (a lot) lost in this big world. I'm perpetually bored, and feeling creatively empty. I've recently done some freelance things, which reminded me how much happier I am when I have something creative to do. I have a lot of time on my hands now, and I desperately need something to do with it.

A couple weeks ago my good friend Victor announced a little project/idea he was going to start doing. I thought this was a really good idea, so I stole it. I've changed most of the activities to be more pertinent to my interests.

At the beginning of the week I will roll a 20 sided die (that I own from my past dabblings in being a total nerd) and do the activity that coincides with the Roll List.

The Roll List

1-10: Theory

11-20: Practice

1. Listen to an album I’ve never heard and write about it
2. Watch a movie I’ve never seen and review it
3. Analyze one of my favorite albums
4. Analyze one of my favorite movies
5. Analyze one of my favorite songs
6. Write about a director/cinematographer/etc. I love
7. Write about anything
8. Read something and write about it
9. Write about an artist
10. Analyze the sound of a scene
11. Recreate the sound of a scene
12. Change the sound of a scene to make it entirely different
13. Make a video essay
14. Write/record a radio play
15. Shoot something, anything and edit it
16. Record one podcast
17. Music video without music
18. Work on Jonesy and the Big Chap animation
19. Create/record some sound effects
20. Roll a D-6. If even, pick any activity 1-10; if odd pick  any activity 11-20

It took quite a bit to come up with this list, but I'm actually pretty happy with. The list is subject to change, and I'll be feeling all this out over the next few weeks. I will expand on what each roll means as they come up, but I think most are pretty self explanatory. I will make a post about my experience with each Practice activity and I will roll the die three times, for three activities. I won't necessarily do the activities in the order they're rolled.

The Schedule

Monday: Start Activity 1
Tuesday: Post Activity 1
Wednesday: Start Activity 2
Thursday: Post Activity 2
Friday: Start Activity 3
Saturday: Post Activity 3
Sunday: Wrap-up post, re-roll

This schedule gives me two days to work on each activity, which may not always be necessary. Say if I roll three Theory activities, then I may roll one or more extra - I'll bring attention to this when/if it happens. Three Contents^tm a week is my goal, but I may go over or under depending on the rolls and how my week goes. Sometimes life happens. Every Sunday I will do a sort of weekly wrap-up and roll for the next week's activity - where I will disclose if I rolled extra activities.

So that's Project TimeSync (get it, like "time sink"). I'm pretty excited, hopefully I will be good or at least entertaining. Be sure to follow me here at this blog, and also give Victor a follow since it was his idea and he is generally more talented than I.

And the first rolls are: 17, 15, 5