Week 1, fin. Week 2- bring it on.

I feel good right now. The past two days were chill class days, although I know they won't always be like this, its nice for now. On thurs I only had Genres class at 7pm. We watched a film called 'Faces' which kinda made me sick a bit, they had a few many close ups for my taste, also everyone was either drunk or had a hangover which makes for some confusing dialogue in a roundabout sort of way. Friday we had our first writing class and our filmmaking 1 development class. Our writing teacher is brilliant. She would ask us things like: what does this character want right now? what does she really want? and it blew our mind. Things like every scene has a beginning middle and end. the beginning can be better called as introduction, the middle as conflict and the end as resolution. in the conflict you do two things: you pose an obstacle and you raise the stakes. Also: a character is just what they want and how far they'll go to get it. I wish we had more than 6 writing classes this semester but I guess thats enough to get us started. After that we had a lot of time till our Filmmaking 1 Dev class later. So my group from Filmmaking 1 decided to go shoot our weekend projects- the one about loosing something and then finding it again. We shot 3 out of 5 of the projects in that time, including mine. Unfortunately we went to the boy's apartment to shoot so mine didn't turn out the way I would have liked it.

Let me explain: Mine was all about losing that one sock in the wash and then finding it again in the washer. I wanted to have that sock stand out so I wanted to use a colored sock that would stand out, but the boys don't wear bright pink socks- only white and black. Also It was very warm in the laundry room b/c there is no AC so I had to film quickly and efficiently. In this exercise we were supposed to demonstrate framing and depth of the frame. I couldn't get any effective framing to work in the laundry room so I just had depth of field, I'm just hoping that Andrew grades nicely for the first one, because this is defiantly not my best.

So after that filming I walked back to the FS and ate lunch and went to Filmmaking 1 Dev. I kept asking Myranda what Dev meant and I think she told me on three different occasions that it meant development and I just kept thinking that in church Dev meant devotional and that definition was always foremost in my mind. In F1dev we talked about our F1 films and how this session was all to help us develop our ideas and give us deadlines for visualization so we're not shooting in the dark. We watched two F1s and critiqued them and talked about what worked and what didn't work. One was about a fat woman who ate Healthy Choice so she could go out with her boss and the twist at the end was that the boss was actually in love with the other secretary and that the fat woman was actually anorexic, she just saw herself as large. The second was about a woman who experiences flashbacks of her husband while smelling lilac lotion and the twist at the end was that she was actually going to a funeral of her husband. We then did a writing exercise where we had 9 minutes to write out three ideas. It was really tough. Andrew told us that if we were stuck just to write 'i am stuck' over and over again until we came up with something. I wrote I am stuck and then I came up with an idea about a woman who got her foot stuck permantly in a hole and she had to live like that kinda like John Travolta in the plastic bubble. That was the weirdest one, but Andrew gave us Homework to post 3 story ideas on a discussion board by friday, so that way if we couldn't think of anything good then we had the three ones from that exercise.

I drove all the way home and find out that Joshua put the truck driving manual for my BTL lab class in our mailboxes at the FS and that we're going to be tested over the info on monday. thankfully he attached a pdf that I printed out instead of going all the way back to FS.

I am totally freaking out about monday.

But to keep my mind off of it I'm reclusing into a state of inspiration to come up with ideas for my F1. I've acutally come up with quite a few and I'm watching one of my favorite musicals, the German musical Elisabeth on youtube as I type this. It has always been a source of information. But thankfully my rommate Kathryn just came up to my room and asked me if i wanted to go to the dog park with her and Oliver. So I'm going to stop typing now and press pause on Elisabeth because- I really really just want to get out of the house. :D

I know I'm going to regret this before I even type it...

... I am really tired of just sitting around.

There- I said it.

I've really enjoyed these last couple of days but i've just been sitting here. In my room. on the left side of my bed, with my macbook on my lap. Thats all I've done. partially because I was too lazy to call people up and ask to do stuff and its been relaxing but in the past three hours when I've been watching TrueBlood and snacking on goldfish contemplating how I need to go to the gym- my roommates have walked by with visitors a couple of times. And I know I've seen them before from the exact place that I am sitting a couple of days ago. Its very hypocritical because I'm bored and kinda lonely but I don't really want to be around anybody else and I don't want to do anything. I just want to sit here and stare at Oliver (the dog) and pet him. Haha.

So I said I'm going to regret this because-school starts tomorrow.

And its not high school or the first day of lecture or anything. FILM SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW.

AHHHHHH!!!!!

what I've been wanting since freshman year of high school is about to start tomorrow and I know I will have no time to sit around an be bored for a while because of FS boot camp (my affectionate way of referring to the FS just so that people will understand that my major is NOT like theirs [no sarcasm hand raised here])

So I have to get up early tomorrow in order to get a parking spot on campus even though my class doesn't start till 2:15- so I'm getting up at like 7 and then driving to campus and then going to the gym and then I guess just hanging out and eating until 2:15......... must bring something diverting to read.

So in conclusion:

1. I'm bored. And Chad Vader isn't loading which is annoying.

2. FS starts tomorrow.

3. I need something diverting to read and i need to buy GLOVES!!! (read 2 posts back)

4. what am I going to wear????

About This....

Heres the introduction, the Act 1 in Nerd-Speak:

I am a 19 year old Film Student at FSU and I am going to orientation in two days- and I am scared shit-less. More about that later. I just moved into my apartment which is a little far from campus to the dismay of my parents and for the most part I'm settled. I have two roommates named Ashley, Kathryn and a puppy named Oliver (who is already larger than my 13 year old dog back at home). I want to keep a blog to chronicle my journey through the film school and also remember everything that has happened because lets face it I'm not very good at remembering things long term.

So what you need to know:

I am a Sophomore and part of a Christian sorority (I know right? Good luck with that at F.S.).

I'm a little bit of a nerd as you will see and I love Disney and Harry Potter (probably not good to love two of the biggest franchises to ever suck all of your money out of your pockets). I am also not very knowledgeable about filmmakers and sorts- oops.

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

...Robert Frost