Making a film could be a full time job. You can laugh at that statement if you want, after all the possibility of it being a full time job is why everyone has come to school for it. However, I have 3 classes this term and all I want to do is work on my film. I'm half tempted to double my thesis credits just so I can drop one of my classes except that I like all three of them. What all three have in common is that they are taught by professors who LOVE the thing they do.
The most likely candidate for dropping is the business one. We've got to purchase case studies from the Harvard Business School, and learn about entrepreneurs, and eventually learn how to make business plans and pitch ideas and stuff like that. To be honest I'm not really interested in any of that. On the other hand, if I'm going to need Heron Media to keep a roof over my head while I hunt for a professor job, then being better at the business side of things would be advantageous. But really, I look at the homework and think "bleh." The thing is, when I was sitting in the class for 3 hours on Tuesday I was thinking, "This is great. She's fantastic. I'm going to learn a lot and have fun doing it." She's got such a personality. It's only when she's not around that I go back to bleh.
The other Tuesday class is Modern British Cinema - from the late 80s to current stuff. It's a film studies class which is not my favorite thing. Though to be fair, I spent a few hours at a coffee shop tonight with a couple people talking about the films we saw over break and what was good and bad about them, how the acting was, how the cinematography was, how the directing was. In a lot of ways it was a "Studies" kind of conversation. But it all started with 'here's something I watched because I wanted to, and what I thought about it.' In Film Studies classes you're watching things because they are Important for one reason or another. What I learned from Masterworks is that there are an awful lot of important, ground breaking, or just representative films that bore me to tears. However, we got the list of films that we'll be watching or talking about for this class and I've already seen half of them, just because I wanted to. So I think if you have to take a Studies class I may actually enjoy this one.
The third class is Lighting. There is no way I would drop that. He missed the first class so he was doing introductions yesterday. He wanted to know what our major was, what we wanted to do after graduation, and what, if anything, our friends might have told us about the class. Now, I've heard a lot of people talk about this class and everyone says he's mean, he makes people cry, and it's the best class in the program. So I never would have dropped it anyway. And it's lighting. I love lighting. The thing is, he LOVES lighting. All three of these classes are taught by people who think the thing that they do is the best thing ever.
And even with all of that, all I want to do is work on Ghost Tours. And I have been. Not quite to the exclusion of everything else. ... Well, yes actually, I haven't had anything due for the classes yet. But I will have to get stuff done over the weekend. We put out casting announcements for both films (Aaron and I have decided the umbrella organization for the two of us working together is Immovable Ghost Productions) and I booked a room for 2 nights of auditions next week. We got so much response we had to add a third night. That's a good problem to have. But logistically answering all those emails, scheduling people, making sure they get the right pages for their character's auditions, it's just very time consuming.
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