Good Morning, Starshine

Today was a monumentous occasion for me in my metamophisis as a film maker. For this was the first day I have shot with a film camera. I must tell you that it was an exhilarating experience. To work with film you have to really know what your doing. We have taken 3 or 4 classes on the cameras and the film itself before we could actually use either of the two. First off, film is quite expensive, a 100 foot roll costing about 80 dollars. That may not sound too bad, but that much film only lasts about 2 minutes and fourty seconds... so not that long at all. That price also does not include the cost of having the film developed... so it ends up being quite expensive indeed. It was quite nerve racking loading that film bit of film in the camera. You have to be sure to do it in the dark so as to not pre expose and thus ruin the film... that just a little bit of pressure... It did help however that we did have daylight rolls, so it's not quite so crucial that you do it in absolute dark.

It was high pressure, but thats film! We didn't actually shot anything of that great importance, as it was just an exercise, and we were just the crappy Bolex 16mm cameras. That particular camera while being a 16mm camera, which is nice, does have some flaws. Like the viewfinder that you can hardly see through... and some of the crews had to use ones that had hand cranks.... which while being nostalgic, is quite irritating... so I'm just glad I didn't have to use it.... When we get farther along we get to use Arri SR II's which are a much nicer camera. To put it in purely fiscal terms, a bolex runs about 1 grand, maybe 2 and as for an Arri SR II... it runs about, and this here is a rough estimate, around 100 000..... So there is a little difference in the price.... But it is a much nicer camera...

Also in film school news... I have as of minutes ago, finished my treatment for my short script. The script itself is still rather hush hush, as it is in the development stage... but I think the treatment turned out rather well. For those of you who are unfamilliar with what is involved in a treatment, you can just think of it as a shortend play by play of the prospective movie. Next on the agenda is the 1st draft of the script...... well that and script analysis, art design, film theory, cinematography, assistant directing, and film history.... so yeah, not really much at all.... It's okay though, since it is all freaking awesome.....

Holy CRAP!!! Ryan Rowe wrote Charlies Angles...... I always knew he had a secret life as a Hollywood screenplay writer.... sorry, I was just watching Charlies Angles..... I can't believe it didn't win an oscar..... ah well.....

So, as you can tell, my spirits have been lifted quite significantly, which is definatly a good thing, but thats what happens when I'm on my own. I get narasistic to the point where I give myself made up diseases... the brain is a weird thing.....

So, thats it for this instalment.... and if you are wondering what the title is about, well... to tell you the truth, I don't really know..... it's from a song... It popped into my head.... enough said?.... "The Earth say's hello".... it's a really weird song......

anywho...... You know what your problem is? I'm too good looking!

Peace out,
Andrew