Blog Post 4

 This week so far has been very different from my first one. Firstly I have now been working with 3 other interns, Skylar, Mikey, and Bobby, who are from Kenston. This has been a much-appreciated change of pace from working pretty much completely independently last week. I have already started to lean into a lot more collaborative work, although it is still primarily individual from a different perspective. I mentioned that I had handed out save-the-date cards for the festival to shops and people all around the Chagrin Falls area, and this week, we both hit the spots that I had previously been unable to hit and tracked back to a couple of spots to make sure they had not run out already. We, as a group also had to finish the Online Calendar Spreadsheet in a lot more depth and struggled through that project at times. Engelina took us all on a tour of all of the venues that the CDFF uses during the festival (Many of which we had already given save-the-date cards to unknowingly). It was a cool experience to see all of the creative ways that the CDFF uses venues due to the constraints of living in such a crowded area as Chagrin Falls. One example is by using different worship areas of a church to direct to different kinds of films being shown. We actually also got to provide input on posters that Engelina was torn between that she is going to hang up in the downstairs shop, which made me feel very included. At the end of the day, Bobby and I were tasked with carrying some heavy boxes down to the hardware store as well, and we didn't dare ask what was inside. Again, one of my favorite things to participate in is screening films for Illuminate, the high school version of the CDFF. I was again shocked at the quality of the films I was watching and loved intensely deliberating with my peers on what films we were going to recommend.




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