The task list that today and this week revolves around:

place a tick (or a cross, we’re pretty open about it) in what you ARE, CAN, or KNOW HOW to do. So what doesn’t have a tick are the things that you need help in either:

• learning how to do
• doing
• getting some direction
• getting some feedback

The things you are, can, and know how to do can be done doing studio time, however since there are all of us here this is the best (and smartest) time to work on the things you aren’t, can’t, or don’t know how to do. 

• do you have a contextualising quote that you are thinking with or about in your film
• find and do more reading around your contextualising quote or problem (the ‘idea’ that your film is treating as a thing that it will make material/concrete/actual)
• do you need to reshoot footage? do you need to shoot more footage?
• do you want/need help to shoot/reshoot material?
• begin writing a script for your film. As a documentary come poetic essay film the script is where what it is ‘about’ really gets figured. This also lets the words and sounds work in counterpoint and synergy with the footage. Think of your ‘script’ as an essay, but not a traditional essay. For example, you should use the same strategies we have used for the readings, collect quotes that confuse, beguile, pique your curiosity, intrigue. Quote them and write about them conversationally. The writing should be fragmentary,  it will be closer to a blog. Considered, informal, intelligent, essayist. 
• should your film be linear? A spatial montage? Multilinear? A gallery?