Tired

Arg.

It's late, and I spent so much time on my damn preview yesterday that I'm still trying to get the kinks worked out of my presentation for class tomorrow.

I know I should have blogged more. I'm freaking out now that it's going to hurt my grade, but I'm just so damned tired. I just don't have the energy to blog about the class in addition to participating in the class, in addition to participating in my two other classes, in addition to being an RA, in addition to graduating, in addition to facing a future that has up until now been a void, in addition to dealing with moving hundreds and hundreds of miles away from my boyfriend.

My head hurts. My eyes hurt. I just want all of this to be over.

Trailer

Here's a trailer I spent pretty much half the day creating for my presentation on Thursday. It's not the most professional thing I've ever done (given that I had next to no footage to work with) but I think that looks pretty good anyway. So I'm happy. Now I'm going to go watch Mad About You.

Films

As I am a film major, one might naturally be able to assume that I have made at least a few films. Well, not really, as I've gone to UCSC and not a REAL film school, but I have created 3 short films (with a 4th on the way).

I thought I'd now post them for y'all to see.


This is the first film I ever made as a film major. It's still the favorite of all my student films.


And my long take, which I think turned out really well.


LOOK! This one was directly inspired by the screenplay I'm currently working on. It sucks, as I had no crew and no actors, so it was acted and filmed by both me and my boyfriend, plus we were limited by the length of the film, but still! Movie!

Well, that's all I have for now. I'll be working on a documentary this weekend, so that should be going up shortly. Anyway, yay movies. Now I just can't wait to graduate so that I can actually MAKE some.

Uninspired

I am feeling so supremely burnt out on the whole Parasite thing. I know I've just got to stick to it, and keep working on it, but right now I really don't have any new ideas percolating. I think I need to step back for a bit, and mull things over. I've been getting really interested in writing/illustrating a semi-autobiographical web comic that I would run through some of my blogs. Nothing serious, just a couple of panels of my day to day life, which is often quite amusing. I think it might be the sort of thing that would be a good temporary break from the whole movie thing. I also feel like I need to be watching a lot more horror films, but I just don't have access to enough films, and I'm not sure how many I can get away with watching in a row.

For now, I'm just going to let my brain think through things, and we'll see where it takes me.

Shaun of the Dead

So I re-watched Shaun of the Dead the other night and I completely forgot to post my notes. I kind of loosely filled out a beat sheet for it, and then just took some general notes at the end. Anyway, enjoy, lol.

The Beat Sheet

Project Title: Shaun of the Dead
Genre: Monster in the House

1. Opening Image (1): Shaun drinking and smoking a cigarette with a stunned look on his face.
2. Theme Stated (5): If you don’t change, you’ll die. "You tried, you did something. That’s what counts." 1:25
3. Set-up (1-10): We are introduced to Shuan, his girlfriend, Ed, and the girlfriend’s friends as they hang out at the Winchester. We see a snippet of Shaun’s monotonous life.
4. Catalyst (12): Shaun accidentally kills a girl and discovers that she’s undead (30)
5. Debate (12-25): Shaun and Ed try to decide what to do and where to go.
6. Break into Two (25): Shaun gets the call from his mother and decides to go save her. (Maybe this is the catalyst...)
7. B Story (30): Get back with Liz (this started earlier)
8. C Story (43): Rescue Shaun’s mom
B Story (47): Rescue Liz
9. Fun and Games (30-55): Fight zombies on the way to the Winchester
10. Midpoint (55): arrived at the Winchester but can’t get in
11. Bad Guys Close In (55-75): Shaun is missing, trapped in the winchester
12. All Is Lost (75): mom is bitten and dies, ed gets bitten
13. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85): fight between group members
14. Break into Three (85): zombies break into winchester
15. Finale (85-110): military cleans up, news reports
16. Final Image (110): Shaun and zombie Ed play videogames

Set up things at the beginning that get addressed at the end
People are oblivious – lots of foreshadowing to the audience, makes them feel smart
Very well edited
Very Hitchcockian
References many of the character’s deaths beforehand
BUILD EXPECTATION!
Repeated long take
Still no catalyst by 25!
Theme of change replicated with breakup, tossing the albums
Bathroom sequence
Great trailer scene of them walking

Editing gets me high

And the rough cut of my Parasite short film is done! We laughed, we cried (well, I did, but not in that order), but it's done! Beginning, middle and end. Doesn't really make any sense, but... Whatever. It's funny. Still needs a whole hell of a lot of work, but it's all down hill from here. The rough cut is always the hardest. The rest is just fun!

Fuck but I love editing.

I get high off it.

Zombified

Ugh.

I do not make an attractive zombie.

I hate acting in my own movies.

:(