It was just announced that school tomorrow will be cancelled due to the impending doom of Hurricane Fay. Hi, my name is Steve, and this will be my first Hurricane.
Hi Steve.
Bring it on, mother nature. Its actually convenient because it means that i won't have to take the test in my 8 hour lighting lecture tomorrow..not that its going to be a big deal, its only about 5 wire banded power. Bullswitches, lunchboxes, ring of fires, and lots of whips. thats right. and all those are legitimate class terms. my lab instructor says the first test is really hard..but then again, my lab instructor is this guy:
sooooo, how hard can it be? (yes, that is a genuine Full Sail product......can be found on Amazon and Netflix.)
SPEAKING OF GENUINE FULL SAIL PRODUCTS. I've just finished what was and probably will be the longest weekend of my Full Sail career. I participated in a 48 hour film shoot where I somehow became the lead actor in a poorly written drama about a dude who runs away from home and ends up in a bar to get a sappy moral story from an alabaman bar owner....hours of sleepless nights ensue.
I came to set saturday morning at 3 am to learn that i had gone from supporting actor to lead actor, and that required a costume change and makeup appliance. and hour and a half after the 15 minute announcement, we were shooting our first scene, which consisted of me entering the bar sopping wet and taking in the environment. the fun thing was that everything was pretty legitimate. Which is what you can always expect at Full Sail. No matter how silly they look, everyone will attempt to be completely professional in their film making process. I've learned that it will be necessary to sift through the bullshitters at Full Sail to find the people who sound professional AND actually are. The main problem with this set is that everyone sounded professional, but no one really knew what they were doing. they were ignorant to any sort of advice and just bulldozed through the shoot. except their bulldozer was out of gas...so it took 6 times as long to do anything. Because as we all know, bulldozers move 6 times as slow when they have no gas...moving on.
our director had assumed the roll of alabaman bar tender, which means he was too concerned with memorizing his lines to be doing any sort of directing. Which i understand completely, except i'm certainly not a good enough actor to receive no direction and expect a positive outcome. That is why i won't be going to the premiere...
Like i said, the set was completely professional. In my other classes you could hear other full sail students talking about our group and how upset they were that not only did we get a lab instructor to direct/act, but we also got "candyland" (nickname for the soundstage) all the lighting equipment, 600 amps of house power, and genuine sets, such as a bar. I even got misted professionally. (which just means instead of a spray bottle, they used a 100 dollar hollywood spray bottle....)
On sunday I had to be back on set at 6am, because thats what they told me. Silly me, I believed them. So i arrived on set at 6am to find no one around. I went home and slept until 8, whereupon they called me and said their director never showed up, and they would be starting in a half and hour. i tried not to laugh in their faces. we shot on location in downtown orlando until noon, and then i was fed a chewy corndog. which was a very nice gesture, its just the gas station microwaves their food BEFORE putting it on the griller...not a big surprise. I was finished, and they went off to edit and color correct and do whatever other technical dreams they came up with. In the end, i don't think they got to do any of that, because they really underestimated the amount of time it would take to render High Definition footage. Which really urks me, because I warned them constantly that they would need a shit ton of time to render, but they never listened. I guess they paid the price, because they handed in the film 20 minutes late and got disqualified for grand prize.
HA! How do you like THAT for anticlimactic!?! muhahahaha. I bet you didn't see that coming! Lesson learned: bullshitting is your number one enemy at full sail. for those of you STILL keeping track:
- Bullshitters
- Full Sail Required Electronics
- Lightning
- Terminator Mom
- Baby Bursters (considered null, but still a threat)
- Studio Execs
- Master of Muppets Conspiracy Theories
- Hessitic Jews under the command of Jim Henson
whew. oh, and as of 6 minutes ago...kelsey.
