For my project so far I have gotten in touch with my mentors. We discussed when we are going to shoot the video, were we will shoot it, and what we will most likely use to shoot it. I have chosen the three people who will speak, and today I finished typing what they will need to focus on in their speech.

      I have gotten in touch with my youth pastor, the girls youth pastor, and the middle school youth pastor at my church. I chose them for my mentors because I wanted to have my video kind of reflect a video they recently made for a D-now weekend. vimeo.com/fbcostudents ( Look for the videos with the black background)

2/3/17

Will Warren

Proposal: Everyday stories from everyday people

Testimony videos from kids our age

Needs and Opportunities

Are you solving a problem for yourself or others? How will this project be a learning and growing experience? What is your goal?

This project will teach me how to use videos and software editing to create a more professional video than I’ve done before. My goal is to be able to create a video that is professionally edited, uses professional equipment, and is set in a more professional setting.

Audience / Clients / Users

Explain who will benefit from your project. Who is your audience – who might be interested in following your blog and learning about your project?

Christians and it could benefit non- believers by introducing them to Christianity

Mentors

Who can help you with this project? Who will you need to contact and what will you ask them to commit to in helping you?

My youth pastor, one of my friends who is in college, and the technical intern for my youth group

Timeline

What is your monthly timeline for this project? I want to see a list of deliverables with deadlines. You may find that the timeline needs adjustment during the course of the year, which may be fine. Check in with me if that’s the case.

February 17	Start planning with mentors for set and people
February 24
March 3	Get all the stuff and start thinking about people to ask
March 10
March 24	Invite people and set deadline
March 31	Shoot video
April 7
April 14
April 21
April 28	Finish editing
May 5 (Prep for Presentation Day)
May 12 (Presentation Day)	present

Product

What is the actual product you will show this spring? This project may or may not be made of atoms or bits, but you must have something to show. I’m not interested seeing a bunch of great ideas at the end of the year. I want to see things.

Show the video on my laptop

Technology

You will have to use technology in some way on presentation day – think about how you can use the tools available to add life into your project and enhance what you are doing. (Video, laptops, apps, cell phones, music, etc.)

Show video on my laptop

Reality Check

I am looking for you to shoot for the moon here and do anything you can dream of, but even moonshots need budgets. What equipment are you going to need? What other capital expenditures do you anticipate, and how will you meet them?

All the equipment I would need should already be there.

Possible Roadblocks

What other roadblocks can you predict – time, resources, motivation etc. Explain what you might do when you come to each roadblock to reach your goal.

If the people I want to be my mentor can’t, there is a college professor that might be able to give me advice.

Conclusion

Wrap it up. Why are you fired up about this project? Inspire me to support you, and give me a great reason to approve your project.

I have always wanted to be a movie director, and this could be my chance to finally see how much I would like it. To finally, see the challenges, and advantages, of working with real cameras, costumes and actors.