Advanced Film Productions a Go-Go!

[Mu Satach]

I just found out today that I was offered a place in an advanced year long production course.

I'm going to get run through a ringer of sorts by the instructor, but come spring 2008 I should be spending all my time sitting in an editing lab, working on an AVID machine and well, hopefully churning out a high quality short film that will hopefully knock the socks off people that I can use to help launch a major career change.

Anyway, out of several hundred film students only 18 are chosen each year for the course... so, I'm psyched and totally sick at the same time. Just had to share...

good grief... I have to finish my 16mm films before August 20th!!! ACK!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

*mild panic ensues*

[Itala Marzullo]

Good luck.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

You can do it!

Congrats on getting into the course :eee

[Wyl Staedtler]

Yay! Congratulations on your grand accomplishment! :hug

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Congrats!!! :crack All will be well, you'll see! :glomp

[Mu Satach]

I hope so, it's really hard trying to work on a film and work 2 jobs and I have to learn another language this year as well.

Thanks for the words of encouragement. :)

[Khendon Sevon]

Wow, awesome!

Good luck ;) Let us get a sneak peek when everything's happy and done.

[Mu Satach]

So, I asked my friend who was in the program last year, what it was like doing the advanced course while also completing two other courses I'm wanting to do as well, he had this to say,

"last year was one of the more work intensive I've had, but really, you'll get back as much as you put into it
...
the highlight of Advanced isn't of course, the in-class time, but the <b><big>40 some odd hours a week</b></big>* you'll spend working on your film and everyone else's. If I could take the class over again just for that, I would."

>_< Oy...

<small><i>* emphasis mine</i></small>

I somehow find it rather appropriate that the Godfather II is on right now and the funeral sounding type march is playing. It's the scene where Vito makes Fanucci and offer he can't refuse. :p

Here is a short I did over a year ago in a class.
Title: The Promise
Tag Line: Mom's dead... now what?
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[Mu Satach]

Alright - update on this thing.

Basically, I ended up writing an overly ambitious short that involved too many actors, too many locations, too many special effects and too much fun for my own good. Which created too little time, too small of a crew, thus resulting in not enough coverage of scenes... which has translated into editing room fits and such... but some semblance of the story I wrote is still there and taking shape.

Amid personal life ups and downs, back and forths, lefties and righties... a 1st cut of the film is finally nearing completion. Goal is to have the 1st cut done by early next week so I can have it in the spring film show in two weeks. I want it in the spring show so that I can have my own acting trilogy. I'm an extra in two other shorts where I get yelled at and shoved around. To include my own film where I get tackled would be sweet.

The next film project I do will be extremely scaled back... no wait... the next one involves a flying saucer I have to build. BUT it only has one location... a moving car... and a projection screen... and an alien. Damnit! At least it has only one actor.

Anyway - the film is only one of many reasons I'm generally MIA these days.

EOL