Syllabuses? Syllabi?

So here are the links to each syllabus from each class, like I've been promising you for way too long.

507 Production I
510 Concepts in Cinema
599 Ideation

It should be noted that the 599 is not from my section of Ideation, as my syllabus was not available online. It should also be noted that these contain phone numbers and email address of some professors at USC. I stress that these numbers and emails could be obtained from the USC School of Cinematic Arts website pretty easily, so if anyone is contemplating using them please refrain from pretending that I'm slipping up and giving away something here. Just use their own website, I'm sure it'll be easier.

As far as class goes, it's, um, going. In our cinematography class we shot on 16 mm film, which should be interesting to see this week after it's developed. Film has a mysterious quality in that you have to just trust the light meter and the charts, set your camera correctly and let 'er fly. Shooting digital, which is all of my previous experience, is always layed out right there for you in the view finder. What you see is what you get, basically.

Our directing class is heating up, basically due to our 2nd projects in that class coming soon. Our directed scenes, from various already existing films, are to be filmed over the next two weekends. This means auditions and more auditions. The halls of the Robert Zemeckis Center have been bustling with actors over the past few days. Auditioning is actually much more managable and fun than I had anticipated. Having never actually had auditions before, I had a natural amount of anxiety about the process, but all of that disappeared when the first actor came in and you could immediately feel the power dynamic in the room. I'm the director, you're the actor. I get to choose, not you. It's not an egotistical thing, it's just the facts, and they know it. Never, in the history of the world, have you seen so many beautiful people trying to be nice to so many nerds.

I'd delve deeper, but tomorrow is an early day. I've got to get up and head over to check out a location for next weekend's shoot. Even my time off is permiated by film at this point. There's no turning back now.