This week I will be shooting my first project! I am very excited and I hope I can get it all done in time. Last week I finished casting and my actors are great! I really lucked out and got two amazing actors that are exactly what I was looking for. This next week is going to be a lot of rushing around and getting everything ready for rehearsals, location, costumes and all the other little details. We are also going to be pitching our ideas for our next project this week, so we are jumping right into the next one before we are finished shooting. It’s good that they keep us busy, I know it will make me better at multi- tasking and organizing my time.

Last week was amazing we had two guest speakers. First we had Debbie Brubaker, who was awesome. She is one of the most prolific women producers in the bay area and she had a lot of great advice and wonderful stories to share. It made me realize how much producers have to be responsible for, it’s so much work! It really gave me a lot of respect for her and the work she does to learn how much she has to know and go through to see a project through until completion. Then we also had Randy Quaid and his wife come to our school with their movie project they have been working on with a few of our Senior students. It was a very experimental film and was unlike anything I had ever seen before. It was interesting to see people’s different styles of filmmaking and learn about their process.