So intense. Four more weeks until the semester is over.

I can’t stop watching movies now without deliberately trying to forget everything I learned at BDFI. I notice all the shots, exposures, mistakes, continuity, etc. in a film I see. I appreciate the writing now that I know almost everything is written! I had this experience before when I first took film production classes at community college. But this is so different. I can see the directors/producers getting bummed out WHILE I’m watching their movie. I feel the pain. I needed more coverage, more takes, more guts in my execution of the story, better dialogue, etc.

We’re doing our second project, a 3 minute scene. And I feel my writing has improved so much. I trust my instincts much more, I’m comfortable with script formatting and I feel now that I have some of the basics, I have so much room to grow as a writer.

Whatever wimpy-ness I have around being a filmmaker is being dragged out of me…I feel supported and concerned at the same time.