Always busy

Now that school is back it has now back to full blown busy work. Not only do I have a 5 page treatment, a 5 page paper on the movie 'Gun Crazy', and a paper proposal, but I have to fix up a project for the Association of Professional Piercers. Not super happy about having to fix the editing that I already did, since if I had a chance I would redo the whole thing. Not only was it filmed on different types of cameras, but there was even a camera phone used. That is not the quality that I would really like to use. But having to do this on top of school hasn't been the most joyful project ever. But I did tell my sister's boyfriend that I would do it, and when I say that I will do something I do it. No matter how much I wanted to not do it since it overlapped with work and school. So I will be happy once it is done and over with.

I've also been planning for going to the Sundance Film Festival this January. Can't wait to go. Going to be expensive but if I am able to get to volunteer it is so going to be worth it. As long as I can get one good lead on a job or a future contact, then it is going to be all worth it in the end. Trying to not stress out too much, but with the festival being three months out I still have some time.

Any whoo back to work. Lots to do in a little amount of time.

More and More Writing

So in my screenwriting class not only do I have to do my individual script but also a group script. Though for the group project we are only taking to the treatment stage I still find it in a ways annoying. I know that the working in the group is good for the future when we are working with others on projects that we are getting paid to do, but this right now is a bit annoying, since its a group of 6 people who can't seem to find time to meet other then an hour before the class starts. And let me just tell you that I don't like not being properly prepared when it comes to presenting something. I mean on my individual pitch I must have rewritten it about a thousand different times and still feel that it needs some work. I do admit that there are times when working in a group does help the creativity with having different peoples input, but it doesn't help if you cant get together to do it. I know that my group will be fine in the end. I just would like it if we could make sure that we get the work done more then an hour before class.

Any ways I have just sent out my application to work at the Sundance Film Festival that happens this January. Dont think that I will get hired for the positions that I applied for, but I figure that it doesn't hurt to try. And if I don't get it then Im just going to volunteer full time so that I am still able to go network and maybe end up getting a job from one of the many filmmakers that will be there. I would be amazing if that would happen. Plus my friend who is now in LA trying to get her foot in to the industry is attempting to be a creative assistant to some German producer. Im really hoping that she gets the job since it would be a great experience. Not to mention that she would be able to travel to Europe all the time. That is like my dream job right now. And who knows if she is able to get it and they need another person and she could just happen to drop my name. lol. I can dream. I know that it is going to be a long track in to the film industry and one of the hardest parts is to just get your foot in the door. It is going to be really nice to have a friend who is going through the same things as I will. Even if she will end up having about 7 more months of a head start then I will.

I just have to make it down to LA to really have more opportunities, but it seems now days that everyone and there mother is going there to try to make there big break. But I don't want to limit myself to just having to go to LA. At this point in my life I have nothing holding me back to letting me travel and move every couple of months. I guess that is one of the benefits of being single and having friends only be a phone call away.

Up wards and onwards. There is no reason why my dreams can't come true. Just have to keep my sights on them and not get discouraged by all the failures before that one success story.

Script Changes

Whoo the pitch is done and now its time for the changes to be made. It was nerve racking but the questions that I was asked are going to help the script in the long run, but it does mean that it is going to change alot of what I had already done. Its hard to let go of some stuff when Im so attached. One of the main things that was pointed out was that I dont know the world that the story takes place as well as I had once thought. There are still rules that I need to figure out and why I ended up putting certain aspects in to the world. All in all it was good and enlightening. Still a bunch of work to be done on it before it is better.

Back to the salt mines, doing homework and readings for school.

Log lines from hell

I have been trying to come up with a log line for my screenplay for the past two weeks or so. One sentence should not be that hard to write. Or atleast that is what I thought. But I think I now have narrowed it down to two different choices. And it only took me sitting at work looking at my paragraph discription to be able to narrow it down. I know I know I should have been working on accounting since that is what I do, but what else am I supposed to do when there is nothing in my inbox. lol. Any ways, I didn't get the nerve to give my pitch last week in class and will have to give it tomorrow. Kind of freaking out about it, since Im not the best public speaker. I mean Im not the worst, but I do have a tendency to talk fast and as I have reciently learned, when talking about my ideas in class, I get nice and splotchy. Not fun. Its not that fact that Im scared to get the constructive critisizm, but the fact that no one will understand my idea. I have talked it through with the roomies and they have been a great help to clean up my ideas, which I really dont think I would be able to get through my class with out them. Crazy I know, but its nice to be able to have some one actually interested in what Im doing and not have them just saying it.

So what is my log lines that I have now narrowed down from a paragraph to two different one or two sentences you ask? Well I guess I will be nice and put them up. Here they are:

1. Drew has her life after high school planned out, but that all changes when aked to join a secret council to help find a powerful amulet that she had once owned in a past life.

and...

2. Drew is asked to join a secret council when she starts to have flashbacks of past lives, only to find that the invite was a ploy to help find a powerful artifact that she had once hidden from those who seek it now.

Im thinking that Im going to pitch the second one to my class. I think that it covers more of the story then the other one. Ahh Im so nervous. Time to not think about it for a while.

Work is a calling me back to the salt mines. Till a later date.

The New Semester

The Fall Semester is now here and it is the last semester that I will ever have to go to college. Or at the very least that is the plan. You never know I might end up going back to get my masters, but Im really not wanting to spend the money on it, and I really hope that I can find a job with it.

So since I didn't write this summer this is what I pretty much did.

1. Worked as many hours as my office would let me. Can't do too much or else they just might have to give me benefits and we just cant have that.

2. Read more novels in a three month period then I did in the last year. Yup I know I have no life, but at the very least I can say that I have done something with my time other then just sitting on my ass doing absolutely nothing. Plus they did help me get some new ideas for future writing idea.

3. Started writing an idea for a novel. Got about 40 pages, don't know how great they are but at least I got some stuff down.

4.Didn't touch my screenplay in hopes to be renewed in my screenwriting class now sot that Im not so annoyed with it that I will never touch it again.

Yup that is pretty much it. Really needing a change in pace and hoping that after this semester that I can find a production job in SF so that I have something other to do then being an accounting clerk for a construction company. Plus it would really be nice to have my shit together when May comes around for when I have to move. OK not going to freak out now about going in to the real world and having to go in debt before I start making real money. Just keeping my fingers crossed that all will end up right in the. Im defiantly not going to win an oscar my first time out in the film industry. Woot there is always a dream.

Any who back to working on some homework... Time to start my beat sheet.