Visions6 is wrapping up, but this last week has been busy nonetheless. We have all been hard at work with the DVD preparation and thank-you notes to send out, and time seems to be slipping by even faster than it did counting down to April 15.
The last few days have include long hours in the editing lab fixing up the Scholarship winner's presentation, and I certainly wouldn't have been able to do it if it weren't for my Editing class I had been taking this semester. There were so many "umm's" and stutters to take out, and matching the footage to the sound was extremely difficult since only one camera had any audio. Some "um's" had to be left in to avoid awkward jump cuts, but I think the overall picture is pretty nice. The slides fit in well with the presentation and gave it a professional look. Although my partner and I could not get our schedules to match up with each other's or the edit lab's ridiculous hours, we were able to communicate through the drive and I got great critiques from fresh pairs of eyes. As far as updating the manual, I had been critiquing my section throughout the semester in bold font and marking anything I felt was false or confusing in red, so I just needed my director's approval to solidify the changes. I think having my own separate copy I kept on my laptop and critiqued throughout the process really helped me make the manual the best it could be, and it saved me from trying to remember things and piling it together in a week. My final act as Awards Coordinator for V6 is filing out the tax forms, which are as confusing as the manual warned me they would be. Luckily I have my awesome director to help me through it! Once those are signed on Tuesday they will be sent out by a separate person from UNCW, and then I guess I hang up my hat as Awards Coordinator.
Visions has been a crazy, stressful ride but I think everything turned out as best as it could, and I hope all the lessons I've learned transfer over to the next generation of staff members through the Almighty Manual.
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