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| Finally, some good stuff... |
| 04.08.05 (5:08 pm) [edit] |
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Well, the bad news first: After sort of figuring out how I wanted to do this very short story about a government conspiracy, I presented it to the group. I can't really describe the story; it's a little bit 1984...Monsters are Due on Maple Street...The Lottery...and maybe just a little bit of art immitating life... It's not a brilliant story. It mostly comes from the Twilight Zones, with a surprise ending being that one of the neighbors was the government agent that started the "verbal stone throwing" to keep current parties in power. And it's a story that never ends. The agent(s) are just going to move into another neighborhood and do the same thing next time. But upon researching the show and finding out that a lot of them are based on other short stories too, I don't feel so bad (it's kinda like that South Park episode, "Simpsons Already Did It.") Along with a pinched-lips, wrinkled-brow stares were statements like, "Can you sum it up in one or two sentences?" "You want how many characters to be in it?" (I'm going to be drawing the whole thing, what do they care? other than voices) "So, how does it end?" "It doesn't have a happy ending..." "that sounds longer than [the minimum] 5 minutes" and finally, "It's good, but it seems really complicated." Instead, we are doing the "story" that another guy in the group wrote for another class. Which is an incredibly cheesy story where first off, a woman is being constantly controlled by men. Her two kidnappers are men, and her rescuers are men. I feel like the villian should have a black cape and handlebar mustache and tie her to a railroad track. But for some reason they are in a wharehouse with "a single swinging light bulb" (which I guess means the whole thing takes place during an earthquake). The dialogue is crap. Evidentally, it is already recorded and "they" did "great job" with it (which i think by the nature of this is impossible). This is unfortunate because I see great potential to make fun of the script which is intentionally over-the-top but seems to take itself too seriously. So, we're pretty much doing something because it is the minimal amount of work we can do. (They can do, I should say, I still have to draw the crappy nonsense). I think the damsel in distress should wear a t-shirt that says something about the Angry Face of Feminism as a bit of irony... So, enough of that. The good news is that this morning as I was obsessing about how much I sucked and how my portfolio was probably somehow all wrong, and I was probably the worst person in the class, and other negativities. We started drawing (I love muscular models!). The teacher went around quickly perusing the room. He came up behind me and said, "You've been practicing, haven't you? It shows." :D And even beyond that, my mom called me and said that the Reno Hilton, who claimed that they never found my CDs when I called them, had them! Yay! So my CDs are back and safe! :D And now I've got to figure out what I am doing this summer. Intership at a TV Station or a Radio Station? Sacramento or San Jose? Sometimes I wish I were still in elementary school. Not thinking about resumes and competing against others for jobs that I will never have in the future (because that would imply that I might be done someday). Current Mood:  contentWhat's on: Simpsons - Bart the Daredevil |
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