It's Electric!

So, I have just realized that I am the worst blogger ever. My "daily" blog has been left vacant for five days. So I apologize to all of you who are interested in my life.

But in my defense, I've been busy. 

Saturday Steph and Skye came to visit, which was amazing. We slid around my hardwood floor in socks and went to a pool party and saw a woman freak out in Wal-Mart. Good stuff.

Anyway, back to school.

Sunday we had an optional lab on learning to use the follow focus. The 1st Assistant Camera person pulls focus on actors, while the camera operator films the scene. So there's this little thing called a follow focus that you turn and...keep the picture in focus! Who ever would have guessed? 

Anyway, the lab was really helpful, and basically what I learned was that it's really hard to keep someone in focus when they're walking up to the camera. 

Yesterday we had a lab on using the generator. We have these generator trucks and all these big camlock cables that we run from the truck to wherever we want to power our lights. My muscles were sore by the end of the four hour lab, but I felt pretty accomplished and pretty strong. I like some of this hard movie labor stuff. It makes me feel cool.

Today we had producing and cinematography classes. We also had screenwriting. We had to write these scenes about a person with a personality flaw, and then today we read them in class and guessed the flaws. It was pretty fun.

I got really nervous, because I have this thing where I hate when people read my stuff when I'm in the room with them. I wanted to throw up a little. Or leave the room. But I didn't do either. I sat there like a good kid.

And most people guessed my flaw, so that was cool. It was about a girl who was incredibly cynical, and who was at her sister's wedding. Good stuff.

Anyway, my professor laughed pretty hard at one line, so I was pretty happy about that. It's still weird to sit there when everyone is silently reading your script, though.

Hmmm, I think that about covers it. I don't really know what I have tomorrow. It's all in my planner, but I don't feel like looking. I'll just go with it.

Oh, and by the way, the rock star project performance is a week from Friday! So I really have to get into learning "Celebrity Skin" and getting my Courtney persona down.

Also, it's week four. Which means there are two more weeks of classes, and then we start filming. I am still very excited and very terrified for filming. But right now I'm leaning toward excited. It should be fun.

Friday we get to have a meet and greet with our actors from the theater department, so that should be fun. I also think it might involve free food. What could be better, really?