Hello out there!
Right now I'm resting a few hours before Richmond's film shoot. He's making this film, "Cumulus". It's about, well, it's about a whole lot of people and how all the stories interact with each other. It's a neat concept and I'm glad I can be here to be a part of it. I'm script supervisor for the film. For those of you who don't know, script supervisors have to watch for continiuty, like, if someone wears a hat in one shot, they should wear a hat in the rest of the scene. also I have to make sure that all the lines are said correctly, and that movements in the same scene match. It requires a lot of concentration when the cameras are rolling but when they aren't, all i can do it make my notes all neat and stuff. People always pigeonhole writers as script supervisors....perhaps because both involve scripts. I do like it, however, I mean, it's something I can do and I'm good at. I could never do anything super technical, involving lighting or cameras. I like the more produce-y side of film, script supervising or assistant directing, or even production design when the production design requires a lot of creativity on my part.
So I'm going to be in Los Angeles this summer, I got into this writing program, Act One. I'll be there for a month, putting in 40+ hours of class a week. Hopefully I'll get into the television program, which will require more time in and out of the classroom. I love writing television and eventually I'd like to produce a television show myself. I get discouraged sometime because I know how hard it will be to actually get to where I want to be. I read a book where it said wanting to be a television writer is like wanting to be a professional sports player. The only thing that makes me feel better about that is that I feel like I'm at least at the level where wanting to do it seems to make sense, like, I have the talent, and i'm in grad school AND wanting to learn more about writing for a month this summer, so I have the drive. I think God has things in store for me and I'm excited to find out what they are. At the same time, I'm nervous about going because of course I won't know anyone and I'll be in a new city and I'll be in a place where everyone is as dedicated to writing as I am. I still need to do my homework for the course, but I think once I sit down and do it, it should only take me a couple of nights to have it completed.
I also have other homework but I'm going to have to put that on hold; I need a first draft of a screenplay by August 20th. I really want to get it done beforre I go to Los Angeles because when I get back to Boston I want to seriously do stuff pertaining to my portfolio. For that I'm writing a few episodes of a show that I'm currently creating. Once it comes together it's going to be really funny. And I don't have to shoot it but I hope there's a way that a little bit of it can be shot. I'd like to shoot a few teasers from the script, if the script will enable that, and there's a shootable location. I'd produce it but I probably wouldn't direct it; even though I'd probably get attached to it after I write it. That's what happens when you write something but then again I have to learn how to give things up to a director...
Wow, I just wrote all that and i don't know who's going to care. :)
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