Week 5

TOTAL HOURS: 39 out of 80 hours

No way...Nuh-uh! Halfway? I'm halfway done with the WLE? That's crazy. Already? Shut up...No! Pfff...Impossible. You're silly. You're totally silly.

Enough of that nonsense. Trying to make me think I'm at the halfway mark...

This week I had several options on what to do. I could continue to refine the demos, or...I could learn about the totally awesome and interesting world of BUDGETS! Easiest decision I've made during this whole experience. That's right. I was interested in budgets. I mean, who wouldn't be? All the numbers, and calculations. I was all like, "I'm gonna totally impress the ladies around the office with my budgeting skills." And when they'd see me budgeting, they'd be all, "Oh Sean! You're so smart and cool. Come party with us!" And I'd be all, "I'll be right with you babes. But first, I got some numbers to crunch." At that point, the ladies would probably faint from my overwhelming attractiveness, yadda yadda. You know the rest.

But SOMEHOW, budgeting never came. I ended up focusing on the demos the whole day. I started out doing some basic edits Joan had suggested. Then at 1:30, I actually got to run a recording session. Cynthia, Shaklee's quintessential voice talent, came in to lend her voice to my demos. I must say, I was nervous. All I really had to do was tell her when to talk, but my head was too full of thoughts of whether or not things were set up right. We got through it though, and it came out sounding...how to put it...spectacular? Yeah, I think that's good. Spectacular...

So with Cynthia's lines all recorded, I went back to work on replacing my audio with hers. But not before exporting one of the demos while it still had my voice, cause I'm going to be honest here. I sounded damn good. So I saved that away just for me, and finished placing Cynthia in the right spots. After that, things required a little shifting because obviously, she didn't speak at exactly the same pace as myself. But hey, she was a professional, so the re-syncing turned out to be very minimal.

After a little tinkering in After Effects, the day was pretty much over. I talked a little with Joan regarding my final project, and I think we both agree these demos will be the main feature. At this point, it's up to me to figure out how I want to present everything. My plans to wrap this up pretty much include continuing my re-familiarization with After Effects, and creating nice opening graphics for my demos. Once those are in place, I think the pieces themselves are good to go. Like I said, the next challenge would be developing my presentation format. Once I've got that, I think the rest of my WLE will be learning whatever random things I haven't had the chance to do yet.

Oh, and that oh-so-sexy budgeting of course.