The Answer to life, the universe, and the reason for the blog

So the purpose of this here BLOG is two fold.

One, I can now point my family and friends to this site as a shortcut to the questions like "How is school going?" and others of it's ilk. I imagine most people don't really want to hear me drone on, and those who do will have an outlet for it now.

Two, in my preparation for film school and for USC in particular, I was somewhat shocked in the complete lack of information about the actual process. Besides having no information about HOW to get into film school, which I still have no real idea about even though I've been accepted, I found it more surprising there wasn't any information about WHAT you even do in film school.

I should point out a few exceptions to this statement. One is "Wendy's" journal which can be found here. It is a wealth of information, and similar to what I am purposing here; except for the notable difference that Wendy started in 2000 and her journal seems to be written entirely from some mysterious third person's perspective.

Secondly, there is Film School Confidential, which I actually found in book form several years ago in college when I was searching for film school information. Apparently, it has just come out with it's 2nd edition, and while I haven't read it, if it's anything like the first it'll give you a solid run down of many film schools in the country.

I'm sure there are other places to get information. The individual school's websites are somewhat helpful, but ultimately I think you'll never really know what it's like until you go, right? With that in mind, I set out on my mission to give my best effort in providing information about USC - School of Cinematic Arts. I say now, it will be informative but also slanted from my prespective; if I find something annoying I'll lay it out here. Also, as I'm not 100% sure I'm allowed to be telling and posting all this information, I will be keeping my actual name off of this, though to get it out in the open:

• I have been accepted into the Production Program
• It is a three year MFA program
• I am beginning class August 25th 2008

Maybe I'm being ridiculous in thinking anyone will care about this besides my friends and family, but all the same maybe someone will find some use for this. Who knows? I feel very lucky to be accepted, I'm very excited to start, and hopefully this is just the beginning of my movie life. We will see.

More to come...