Classroom Classes Are Over!

Yesterday was our last day of actual classroom classes for the semester. Monday we'll be starting Crew Drills. Here's how they work (I think!): 

Each day, Monday through Friday next week, corresponds to one full weekend on the actual shooting schedule. So each day we'll be shooting 6 films- 3 in Stage A and 3 in Stage B. We'll be doing every position we're going to do for real on everybody's show, but this is like dress rehearsal. That's what I'm calling it. Production Dress Rehearsal. 

And this will from here-on be referred to as such.

Anyway, Production Dress Rehearsal runs from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, so we end up working on 3 shows a day. I'm actually really excited for this, because I think it's going to help so much in terms of me knowing what I'm doing. And we get free lunch and snacks. So that's pretty neat.

More about that later. And it might be really later, like Friday, if I'm too tired to update during the week. We'll see.

Yesterday we had a directing class where we practiced making a movie and learned all kinds of protocol stuff, which was very interesting and helpful. I was BBE, which will be my first job in Dress Rehearsal and, therefore, my first job on set. So it was nice to get a little practice in, even though I only had to run one cord.

Anyway, we did this Production Meeting, which reminded me so incredibly much of NAE meetings. I'm so glad I was in NAE for so many reasons, but yesterday I was so glad because I kept thinking, "I totally know how to do this!" Only this is a movie instead of a concert. But still. It was pretty great. 

Hmm, what else?

I have no drawn about 4 different storyboards for my movie, but I think I finally decided on one. I may need to cut it down, because right now I have, like, 23 setups, and I really don't want that many. So I'll probably end up doing 5 storyboards. Oh, and these are practice storyboards. Our storyboards for Director's Prep have to be huge, like one picture per 8x11 inch piece of paper. So that'll be fun. I'll get to put my excellent drawing skills to the test.

Anyway, more on that later, too.

Oh! And I'm officially registered for London!!! Which will, I'm sure, be here before I even know it.