Is this like one of those emotional conversations?
Today was the most fun day of class I've had all year.
We were in the TV studio and learned all the equipment and I got to do a practice directing session. Cool stuff.
There are three cameras in the studio and the director, assistant director, and other people are in the control room watching the monitors and the director directs people and creates a show on the fly. So much more fun then I thought it would be. Everybody in my crew seems to be competent so it should all work out well. I found directing or being one of the camera guys to be the most fun, but it's all good. Especially when you get to wear the headsets with the mics.
Bossing people around is fun.
In preparation for my first studio project, which is this Thursday I had an arts and crafts session with Jimmy today. Before I explain why we did arts and crafts let me explain the project.
I have to bring in a series of photos, choose a song, and create a slide show type thing with music that I put together into a video in 30 minutes by directing my crew of 12 people. For my project I'm using photos of slums around the world, mostly in Mexico, and have yet to choose my music.
The photos I got out of Colors magazine and they needed to be mounted on black cardboard. That's the arts and crafts part of today. We did lots of cutting and made very liberal use of Jimmy's double sided tape.
I have to practice my project tomorrow night and write out the script for the directions as well. I think I might pull an all nighter tomorrow to do all that because:
I have a long day of class tomorrow and then I'm going to see Death Cab for Cutie! Awesome, this will be my first time actually seeing a show of theirs. Other times it's always been at festivals that they were a part of. This should be really cool. I'm going to the show after my third class tomorrow and am going to be skipping my writing lecture. After that I'll be up all night prepping my project.
I'm the first person to go in my crew so hopefully I'll be able to do a good job. I got to run through a practice show twice today and was getting the hang of it, all should run smoothly...
Oh yeah, I didn't have my pictures mounted and ready for class like I was supposed to... when I told my professor he half yelled at me and said "Bad!" then proceeded to stare at me awkwardly for about 3 hours before he broke the awkwardness by telling me again that I was "bad." He then proceeded to further the awkward mood by laughing, wagging his finger, and reminding me for a third time that I was "bad." Um... It's okay, he's still cool.
I need a haircut... I think I might get it cut after class on Thursday... mostly in the back...
I had a really gross Chicken Whopper today at the Burger King inside Weinstein. Ugh.
I need people to chime in and tell me if they think Bjork is sexy? There's something strangely attractive about her, at least when I'm listening to her music... it usually quickly fades as the music fades though...
Jimmy and I are going to make a Counter-Strike movie... how sad... yet cool...
I hate when people put music on their Xanga pages. It's a big pet peeve.
Uh... goodnight.
