I met with my professor today. He thinks I'm ready to start pre-production on Ghost Tours, and I think so too. Yay! I'm emotionally ready to start for sure. I really like this script. I really think it could be a great film. So no pressure or anything, but it's going to succeed for fail based on my skill as a director. This is where I find out if I am as good as I think I can be. I'm really looking forward to starting work on it. Writing was fun, but it's time to take the writer hat off.
He and I also talked about Sydney and then internships. He thinks my going to Sydney is a bad idea mostly because it puts such a hard deadline on getting my shoot done. But he also said, there's no professional advantage to doing an internship in Sydney, if you're going to bother doing one then do it in LA. He was heading off to a meeting, but I told him I want to talk more about it with him after the holidays.
He said something interesting too. He said he had assumed I wasn't going to bother with LA because he felt like I was trying to get through the program as quickly as possible to get back to the professional world. I wonder what I've said/done to give him that impression. Certainly needing to work to pay off the loan weighs heavy on my mind. And I have tried to be efficient with this break from working that I've taken. Tried to milk it for all it's worth, because it needs to be worth a lot (I'm up to $70,000 in loans so far). But I don't feel like I've been rushing through. Maybe that wasn't what he meant anyway.
I think after New Years I'm going to buy him a coffee so we're not just sitting in his office in that formal environment and say, "ok, I want to be a professor. I will certainly need to find work for while I'm looking for a professor job. What do you recommend?"
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