I think it's going to be a good year

We got all our shoots done this weekend. Apart from mine they were rainy and cold and uncomfortable, but there was a lot of laughing and fun just the same. So it leaves me very hopeful for how the remainder of the semester and year will go. I don't know if any of these first films will have turned out watchable at all. Possibly, but also possibly not as we're all learning the camera. We didn't get a whole lot of instruction on this camera in particular, more a 5 minute overview and here go shoot before we did our tests. So I'm sure we all had our share of mistakes as we got used to the gear. But you've got to get used to it somehow and this is a much more realistic way to do it.

Regardless of how these films turned out though I think what was most important was that we worked well together. And we did.

Now I must read read read...

I've updated my list of readings for the next week. About half are late and half are due this week. I'm trying to at least stay ahead of the curve on screenwriting. Production I've been skimming. It deserves a thorough read, but it's the only class I'll really get away with that. Acting doesn't really have any reading yet, though it will soon. Masterworks I'm just hopelessly behind. But screenwriting I'm skating the edge of being punctual about and trying to stay that way.

The thing about the screenwriting books is that it's useful reading. I'm learning things and thinking about things that are directly helping me work on the assignments for the class. So I'm motivated to read it. However it's hard to read it, or slow anyway, because every paragraph or so my mind drifts to how that applies to the stories I'm working on. And once I start drifting into areas like the backstory of my 18th century ghost I start asking the internet questions like "did puritans believe in hell?" The internet is a fascinating and unregulated place. It's not conducive to getting through several chapters of assigned reading.



PS: if you've been trying to send me emails and they've been bouncing, yes I know. I'm having issues with comcast that should be sorted soon.
[edit: email is fixed]