May 2012
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David Kelley: How to build your creative... →
I am always having people tell me they can’t make or do the things I do because they aren’t creative or talented enough. I’ve always disagreed. So does David Kelley in the TED Talk.
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My movie is done, it is turned in and I am so happy to be finished with the stupid thing. If there was a chance for something to go wrong, it went wrong. First, we used a shotgun mic and a separate camera to record the sound because the DSLR I was shooting with did not have an XLR socket. The cassette was blank, or rather it was blue, as in freshly opened and never recorded on blue. My sound did...
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Does anyone else have a lot of specific memories about past jobs? I hate how at interviews they ask things like, “Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a difficult customer, how did you handle it?” or “Tell me about a time you provided exceptional service or went above or beyond you usual duty and what did you learn?”
I don’t know about anyone else, but I...
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Excuse the (edited) cussing but...
Ah Frak. How the heck do you get letters of recommendation from people in the entertainment industry when you are applying for a fellowship in order to get INTO the industry. I live in freakin’ Yuba City, California. There’s no entertainment industry here. This is the cultural black hole of the universe. The Mass Comm program at our local college doesn’t have a decent studio to...
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So, I made an interesting discovery about my writerly self yesterday. Even if the story I wrote is not chosen for the anthology, the fact remains I wrote a 3,000 word short story in a little over 12 hours. It would have been closer to 5,000 if not for a word limit.
I can write an entire short story in one day.
If I don’t have to edit in the same day, I can do 5,000 or more words in that...
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Now we find out how good my writing skills are. I just found about this yesterday and wrote my story today. I like it, but I had to cut out over 1,000 words to fit the word count. That is a lot of words. I hope I got sent it in time. If not, I may be posting a Sherlock Holmes story here soon.
April 2012
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The short film is almost done. A few filler like things to do and the sound to fiddle with. I am hoping I can clean out the background noise from my original recording so I don’t have to have my actors redo their lines. None of them are really actors, just other film students who know how hard it is to get people to show up to film, so they won’t be good at syncing up with the video....
Diane Duane: Reblog if you're a fangirl. →
So much of a fangirl, forever, including, but not limited to:
Books (starting with)
Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden, Star Trek (some of which were written by the above Ms. Duane), Star Wars, Mercedes Lackey Bard books, Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, Ellery Queen, Albert Campion Mysteries, Dr. Who, Tony Hillerman books, and a myriad of others through the years.
TV
My love of “bad” TV is...
“Well fuck you science that determined this. At least I’m having fun while...”
– The Random Happenings of a Hailey Cowden: NPR Music: The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined By Science) (via newsweek)
So basically it is any degree relating to anything that makes society or culture worth notice and can feed the soul more than the wallet. After all, when we think of...
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I have a new timesuck.
I signed up for Pottermore today. It’s fun.
My wand is a 10 and three quarters inch cypress with a phoenix feather core. But the most surprising part was I was sorted…into Gryffindor. Totally thought Ravenclaw would be my house (maybe saying broom flying was what I thought would be coolest to learn…).
So if you wanna friend me there, I am...
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I should have gone in to edit my film today, but I didn’t feel like it after yesterday’s awful studio production. Tomorrow I am on campus all day and only have 2 classes. I’ll edit between classes. The teacher pushed the rough cut due day to next week because we have to finish that scene we were filming last week with the old (actual) film camera. I’m so bothered by...
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So glad my project for studio/ video recording is done, and no, it did not go well.
You know, I show up for every class while we do projects so that their projects go well and they don’t get marked down, or if they do, it isn’t because I didn’t do my best for them.
Our class is small to begin with, even if everyone showed up, some jobs would have been doubled up. Three people...
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Oh my goodness, I am exhausted. I’m not sure why though. We filmed today, but it was less than three hours of work to get almost the entire film. I have a couple shots to do that do not have people in them, but it will take longer to prepare than shoot. Maybe it was because it was very hot and we were in the sun for much of it. Poor James got a sunburn. Maybe it’s because I forgot to...
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In movie making class we are using up a small stock of real film my teacher has by filming a short scene. We have like 300 ft of film, but the camera will only let us film 15 ft at a time. We can only get through 20 seconds of the scene at a time, which is fine for close ups and reaction shots, but crap for filming a longer portion of a conversation. And I am script supervisor, so I have to keep...
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Ahhh, ScriptyFrenzy I shall get back to you soon, I promise. I am getting ready to film my movie on Sunday (I have actors! you don’t know how hard it is to find people who will show up, but they are in the same classes and totally understand). Then on Tuesday it is my day to film in Studio Production, so I have to get all that together too. Tonight, I go over my script for my trailer trash...
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No ScriptFrenzy totals today. I worked on my commercials today because they are due tomorrow. I may get some pages done tomorrow evening though. I am not worried, I’m a quarter to my goal pages already. Goodnight.
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Hey, I just realized my Missing e has disappeared. Huh. Hope Tumblr has made up for what Missing e did, because I don’t like being asked if I’m keeping something and having it disappear.
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