I HAVEN'T BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS!
Wow, guys. Just wow. I haven't updated this thing in ages, which is a shame, since it's such a great resource and has so many wonderful people!
Anyways, I'm a junior in high school this year - it's a big year, and I'm quite busy. A few months after my last blog, I was the only student director in the one-act play festival at Dover Little Theatre, which was completely awesome. It was my first time directing, but I had a great cast, and the issues about respect and stuff because of my age that I thought would happen, well, didn't. =P So that was good. (Of course, I know that they still call me "Little Sarah" behind my back...but that’s okay. Hee.)
I've been volunteering at my local television show, Jefferson Highlights, for the past few months, and I LOVE it. I'm learning a lot from Art Benito, who runs the whole thing - he worked for NBC for forty years, and has graciously taken me under his wing. He's taught me so much, and I know that if I ever get into film school, it will be because of him! =) I've even directed a few episodes so far, which is incredibly exciting.
I finally got into the video class at school, but it’s our teacher’s first year of teaching video and studio production…so, yeah. It’s an interesting experience, and it’s teaching me a lot about time constraints and not making things more complicated than they need to be. When you only have about two and a half hours spread over the course of three days to make a short film, you learn not to be a perfectionist. Also, I’ve embraced the wonders of storyboarding, which I hated to do before, but now save so much time.
A friend of mine is working on a horror script, and he and a bunch of guys want to make it a feature. *facepalm* Personally, I would rather make a really good short than a craptastic feature, but I’ll take on any project at this point. The whole process is going along kind of shakily - every day I’m like, “Have you finished the script? Do you want someone to read it so far? Have you settled on locations? Who’s doing the preliminary storyboards?” and those lovely gentlemen simply look at me like I’m slightly insane. How is it that men dominate the film industry when they can’t get anything organized by themselves? ;)
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go read about forty pages in The Canterbury Tales, because AP English is kicking my ass.
-Sarah
