Film – Week 11 – Updating Workflow – Mind Like Water

“‘Be shapeless and formless.. like water’ (Bruce Lee)” by Akinini.com is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

“Have a mind like water.”

― David Allen,  GTD

SUMMARY

I relaxed a good bit this week. I got my work done this week in a somewhat timely manner.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• Set a timer for 60 minutes in this ‘room’
  • Complete up through pre-production in SneakOnTheLot.com

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Set a timer
• Spend 75 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch the first episode of The Story of Film and take notes in a separate blog post

Steps

1. Create a blog post titled, Story of Film – Episode 1 – Birth of the Cinema
2. Embed an interesting Creative Commons image from Flickr.com at the top of your post
   • Have an image that sums up the gist of the episode
   • SELECT A CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGE  FROM SEARCH.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG AT THE TOP OF THE POST
     • WATCH MR. LE DUC IMAGE PLACEMENT TUTORIAL, if you need to
3. Create a heading 2 titled Notes 
4. Watch Mr. Le Duc’s Story of Film Notetaking Video Tutorial (2:00)
5. Copy and paste the episode’s referenced films as text with links from The Story of Film: An Odyssey at Wikipedia
6. Cite your source as Wikipedia and link back to The Story of Film: An Odyssey page
   • Example: “The following material is from Wikipedia.”
7. Take notes as you watch the episode
   • Indent under the film Mark Cousins is referencing
     • Place your notes there
     • These notes will help you on future research projects in high school and possibly in college
8. Access Episode 1 and begin watching

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend 15 minutes in this ‘room’

• Review this infographic for 5 minutes (Click for larger PDF version)
• If you want, read more at  bananatreelog.com/blog/daily-dose-of-happiness-chemicals