So.....tired....and mad.....oh, well

[edit] Sorry about the rant below..it gets happier under "in other news" [/edit]

um...3 hours of sleep has been interesting.......I'd be in bed if my dad didn't up and invite company at 9:20 PM.............he's supposed to "drop something off"..........I guess he is dropping off many words..........not his fault..............I think Angel, our youngest cat is deaf, now........the construction dudes in our basement suck.........we tell them to shut the door because we have indoor cats......one guy shuts the door each time..........the other dudes don't care.........on Tuesday, when I was away, they left the house 2-3 hours early and didn't tell my mom.........she found the cats outside.........the door was left wide open for 2 1/2 hours.........she got the cats back in..........we locked them in a room on Wednesday, and I yelled, "Hey! Are there any holes in the basement? Like a window open?" and dad told them to shut the window and of course, the don't.............all day today, we thought Angel excaped.........well, we weren't that lucky...........my mom found her, but with the jackhammering, we think she can't hear anymore...............the construction dudes don't care.........to them it's just a cat.........how would they feel if I put antifreeze in their pets food? Wouldn't THEY be worried that their animals are in danger?............Now they aren't on schedule and my dad won't take off work.......meaning I flunk my college class (for not showing up) and have to wait a year to get it again........and pay over 1,000 dollars..........It's my fault that I can't drive (I mean the DMV lied to me and I haven't been able to walk 15 miles to the DMV since then), so my parents won't pay for college.........we are paying these dudes TONS of money and we can't even have the right to pay them less for their neglegence of their job and damage to our pets and my carreer? my mom said a neighbor might be able to drive me.........yeah, right.....

In Other News..

I was too lazy to make the color composition costume..but last night, my dad brought up a box (so big I think they think I'm 100 lbs. heavier than I actully am) and my mom cut it..I used my old "photo scraps" (my old test strips from a year's worth of photography classes) for the TV face...I cut them up and did a mosaic/collage thing to make it look like a TV with bad reception..a lot of people (even young kids) got that I was Samara from "The Ring"..that was fun! I got to give out candy to my classmates and friends at lunch..a classmate from Writing for the Media class gave my classmates and I a flier about writing for the new school newspaper..so that would be fun..especially if someone else could edit it..like, my WFTM teacher or something..he was really good at explaining what was needed to be changed and why..

In Tuesday's class, we turned in our scripts..Virginia, Jenny, and Megan helped me by reading the script..Virginia seggested they read the dialog out loud..that made my murder story into a comedy! It was so FUNNY!! Well, we pitched them in class..usually I go 5th, but I decided to go 3rd because I felt that since we all had the same basic story, people will start losing interest after the 5th person..So I bomb the pitch...I talked too fast, didn't say my name, didn't say what the title of the script was, and didn't say "thank you for your time" twice! So, grr....but I kinda got worried when people started having the main character die after the chase and some had him or her alive at the end and it was all a dream..DID I DO IT WRONG? I thought we were supposed to follow the treatment..the teacher said to have EVERY scene that was in the treatment in the script..um..I'm pretty sure he dies in the treatment (and before the chase)..MAYBE people had him "die" in a metephorical sense....somehow...I felt bad for my friend who had the whole script and showed up 30 seconds late and got a 0 on her script because of being late..that's why I'm there at 12:25 p.m....

Today, our storyboards were due..it took me 7 hours to draw yesterday and this morning..57 frames...it's not much, I think..people had pages and pages..it's just hard for me to DRAW what's in my head..I can DIRECT people and TAKE PICTURES of the ideas..I can explain my ideas through SPEAKING..but I can't draw...I called my people "Mr. Potato Heads on stick figures"..then, I'd slow down on some (like the last scene) because the "technical photographer" side of me comes in and tries to think about HOW I'd get the shot..like, I was thinking "I need to use a wide-angle and have the guy fall 5 feet away from the car" and "OH, CRAP! People don't fall like that!" and then I changed the legs of the dude so it would work right..it was hard too because I had to depict NIGHT...so I scribbled darkness in the empty spaces..

The funniest thing was at school, my friend Clarissa that I talk to a lot, had THE SAME opening scene!! Her teacher was a photography teacher, too!! And we both had circled f-stops in our first scene! The only difference was that her teacher was a girl and mine was a dude..We never discussed the details of our script before today!..at the time that we thought we were doing our own movies, she asked me to play the teacher in her movie..I don't like to be in front of the camera! But I said ok because I wanted her to be in my movie..

Well, in class, I thought we were gonna present our storyboards..I was ready to "bullcrap".."bull craping" to me is when you put a lot of terms from the class in your presentation and you look like you were paying attention in class and understood when half the time, the idea of using some terms comes after you're done, rather than before..even though, I've gotten so used to it that I know what I'm gonna bullcrap about WAY before starting the project..which I guess is a good thing..

I wanted to talk about how I used light and dark to contrast moods and how the teacher is surrounded when he is safe and alone when..alone...and how I wanted the shots toward the end to be closer and thus cut off more of the background and surroundings and have more off-frame elements because that's when the "fear" part of the movie is and the guy is really paranoid and thus afraid of the unknown..so I made it so more and more is unknown to the audience..and how the mugger looks anonymous and is silhouetted and becomes a blurry shadow during the chase scene to represent Death catching up with the teacher-dude..

Well, Jim (our teacher), had guest speaker talk about deadlines and then had a lecture with movie clips..then he said something like, "Lets do some presentations!" and so he picked some people's storyboards out and they presented them..the first guy (he was in my Typography class and is really good at coming up with ideas), he did a great job of explaining *cough*bullcrapping*cough* his storyboard..he even talked about the red/cyan contrast with the skywalk! YOU GO DUDE!!! and the other people had good ideas, too! Then the teacher asked for the next student to go and this dude already had his storyboards so I guessed he was picked and then later, another guy comes over and grabs his storyboards and said, "I was supposed to go next." so I thought he was picked..I didn't want to volunteer until I knew we could and then, just before the end of the class, the teacher gives me my storyboards meaning I go next..we ran out of time, so I get to go first on Tuesday..

But now I'm over analysing..did he want me to go next because he wanted me to present or was it because I was picked randomly? He told us that the top 3 scripts are gonna go on to production and that storyboards and pitches were important, too..I know I screwed up the pitch, I have no clue about the script, and I'd hope that if he picked me to present that maybe at first glance, it's worth explaining? Whatever way it goes, too many people wanna see it made into a film, so I'd probably film it in a year (when I can finally afford a camera), using my friends from high school and my college lunch table as the actors and crew..

Wee! I can finally go to bed now!

G'night!

Posted by Hope at October 28, 2004 10:10 PM

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