It's a Go

Just a quick note today since I am in a hurry.  My classmates and the feature film director who was critiquing our ideas really liked my first idea for a documentary (the one I've been jazzed about) so it's a go! Tonight we talk logistics.

There was a surreal moment last night where one of my classmates pitched a fictional short composed of eighteen scenes.  Let's call him Phil.  Because it's a documentary workshop, Phil tried to package it as a neorealism piece in an attempt to shoehorn it into the doc approach (although he didn't use that terminology).  But it was a fiction piece through and through.  Since Phil had traveled from SoCal to do this workshop, it made all of us wonder what he was doing there.  Phil's idea was ultimately shot down because it was too ambitious.  And we were all relieved since none of us had signed up for a fiction workshop and crewing a fiction piece would require different preparation and an unfamiliar approach.

Did I mention that we all crew each other's shoots?  It's a great way to gain additional experience on the set in such a short time.

I am very much looking forward to having a day off tomorrow, from work and school.