Thursday, April 05, 2007

No rest for the wicked...

Today was a tough day... Full of work and other hardships. I call it, The Thursday of Doom!!!!... Our first item of the day was the script selection. I was not chosen... which, I'm not going to lie, pissed me off.... I think the main reason I didn't get picked is because of the class voting... but that's just a guess, I have a debrief next week some time... So yeah... that kind of put me in a bitter disposition... but the day trudged on....

Next we had two consecutive tests... Producing and ADing, they weren't hard at all though, and only took about 10 or 15 minutes to do both. But it sounds hard to have two tests in a row.... right?

As you may recall I had a large cinematography earlier, and today was the day we received the results of said test. It was a tense time... no one was sure whether on not they would be able to move on in the DoP training..... and guess what? I got the highest mark in the class! Yeah, I was just as surprised as everyone else. Yup, 93%... I wasn't even sure I'd get the 85 required... That was a good part o' the day....

Then we got our directing test back. I was pretty nervous about this one too. I felt frazzled and unprepared when I was writing it.. so I was pretty sure I didn't do well... like the last directing test, where I got like 68 or something.... and low and behold I received a 90%! I guess I'm just on a roll.... so as of now all our testing is complete, now we just need some marks back.... but these latest test help my average out quite a bit.... I guess I do have one more test.... hopefully I do okay... I'm sure I will.....

Then we decided to go see a film after this hectic day.. you know to relax, let off some steam.... So on our way to the theatre we sort of witnessed a robbery. We walked out of the Sears onto Robson, hearing a woman screaming off in the distance... which oddly enough is not completely uncommon.... crazy people and the like... so yeah, we walked out onto the street when I heard the lady yell stop thief and a guy ran off... followed by some helpful bystander trying to stop him... I don't really know what it was about or anything.... they were all the way down the street... so it's not like I was a witness or anything... if that's what you're thinking.... cause you were.... anyhow.... yeah, so we walked down to the theatre on Granville street when I noticed a somewhat familiar face. Yeah, I know you're sick and tired of hearing about all the famous people I see, but, um..... I still like talking about it?..... yeah sure....... okay, who was it? It was Nardwaur! Who? Nardwaur the Human Serviette...... yeah... you still probably don't know.... he's like a comedian with Much Music.... and he's on The New Music sometimes.... yeah, I don't know, he's not that funny or anything.... he looks funny though....
Nardwuar The Human Serviette vs. SXSW

so yeah... good times.....

and the movie was okay. It was the lookout. The coolest thing about it was that it was filmed in Manitoba. Isn't that cool?! I thought it was cool. There was a part where they sped up the film though, which is never cool... they sped it up in post, not production so it just looked cheesy... like when cars are going slow and they speed it up to look like they are going really fast. It just doesn't work.... never has, never will....

That's it for today... it was long, it was hard... and now it's over... We still ahve a boat load of work however... but it's not all on one day. So peace out world. I got a test in the morrow and I should get some sleep.

Andrew
and that's the kind of day it's been here on thursday, April the 5th

3 comments:

Hamnet said...

Sounds like you did good on the "Thursday of Doom." Congrats.

jeff and austen said...

i am not going to lie, i did not read this post, as it was intimidatingly long. but i did read the one on global warming, and felt it necessary to comment. but on this post, rather than the actualy one - as i doubt you would look that far back, and then i would just feel dumb.
but i appreciated your perspective on the issue, and objectiveness (objectivity?). i too think it (an inconvenient truth) is a "bit commercial", but did find it to be very interesting. i quite liked it actually. i think that at times al overdoes it, but the issue at hand isn't really debatable. interesting theories put forth on global warming and i will have to check out that other movie. but from what i know (which isn't much) global warming is our fault, and anyone saying otherwise is having a hard time accepting that. i don't know, i guess we'll see when vancouver falls into the ocean... haha.
p.s. how are you, i am coming to mission for july and aug, and i hear you will be there. lets work something out.
ausTen

heather said...

When are you coming to Saskatoon? I'm going home for the summer and I will only be here until the end of the month but I would really like to see you, so I think you should think about coming out here relatively soon