I know it's been a while since a post, and I'll do a real one tomorrow but for now, I'd like to just say a few things about film school that I really dig that have been surprises.
Excuses - it has never taken a lot to convince me to waste a whole day watching TV/Movies, and it's not that I normally feel all that guilty, but film school has made that so much easier. All I have to do is pay the littlest bit of attention to camera movement, story structure, acting, basically anything going on on the screen and I instantly get to call that homework.
Bottled Water - we always have to have this stuff around. you need water for auditions and shoots. It's like the least you can do; that and snacks, but they're less omnipresent. I only drink bottled water now, just because it's awesome and available.
Prestige - it's not like people are super impressed or anything, but USC is a big deal, at least to some. If they knew what we really did I'm sure it'd be a very sobering experience. Not that we don't get to do cool stuff, but you always imagine it to be way crazier than it is, right? At any rate, when people ask me what I do, I usually receive a positive reaction. It is cool.
Events - I guess it should have been expected, but there are a bunch of cool things we get invited to as film students: free screenings, Q&A sessions, movie marathons, etc. Granted, most of it is stuff only film geeks would be into, but still it's rad. Also, taking a friend from outside the film school is pretty cool; it's like the tiniest bit of juice we can show off.
Reading - Not just the film reading, which is generally useful. We are encouraged to read outside material; magazines, newspapers, novels, whatever. They even tell us to watch people, become observers. It makes sense, and I've been doing some of it for a while. But, when someone just tells you to go do that kind of stuff, that it's important to your future work, well it's kinda license to just dive in.
There are a bunch of other things that are semi-unexpected, but those are some biggies. Maybe I'll do another list of something or other sometime.
Expect a real update tomorrow. For now, I'm off to 'study' Indiana Jones.
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Good to see you're doing "real" film stuff. Especially since I still have this nagging desire to be paid exorbitant amounts of money for very little actual "work". I believe that, of course, is your end of the bargain. Mine is, um, commenting on your blog.
Also given our trials and tribulations of old, I know it helps to actually SEE that some fucker out there is reading the things you post in the digital wonderscape (yeah, WONDERSCAPE).
Anyway, come home for Halloween, you bastard. Also you need a costume and no one here has the balls to be Adolf Hitler.
I now realize that most, if not all of this, certainly doesn't belong on your (very serious) film school blog.
one of your breakdowns should have been:
Abe - I finally get to know this guy. Everyone keeps asking about him. Now when I say that I know him, all my friends are impressed.
thanks, nick!
Yeah, thanks a lot for not mentioning that one, Nick. Else I would have asked about Abe. Now you've ruined it for all of us.
Seriously, I have to type "enchic" to make this comment work?
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