The Renée Review

October 22, 2009

Thursday – I can’t believe it’s Thursday.  The days and nights are blending together.  I found it impossible to concentrate before classes today and am therefore quite unproductive in my homework completions…  I’ve got to get it together.

In Production One – Tony used my “Back to the Future” edit for class discussion.  That’s cool.  I guess I’ve turned the corner from soccer mom to something else.  The jury is still out on the “something else.”  I suppose I no longer think he hates me, but I’m not convinced he likes me either.  I’m not sure what the issue is, but there is an underlying something there.  It’s weird actually.

Anyway, I was proud that it was MY “Back to the Future” that he used. The class is still floundering with Project One.  Several students (85%) still have not shot their project one and apparently Tony is waiting for scripts to be uploaded so that he can approve them.  They must be sweating bullets at this point – I know I would be.

When we moved into our Post class, we took the mid term that I should have been studying for this week and at the very least, this morning.  I was now in the hot seat, because for some reason I was unable to get the studying bug under control.  We were given our mid term instructions and proceeded to open the test up on line.  I’m sure I aced it – thank God I pay attention in class.  I had extra time once finished, so used that to continue the editing process for “At Your Own Risk.’ 

I really want my first project to look good and am very aware of the sound deficiencies I have with it.  I’ve got to get up to speed on how to put in the music tracks and adjust sound levels and clean up sounds, etc. 

In Post – Margaret Norwood put her foot down and has given the drop-dead date for Project One – it’s this Tuesday!  My poor class mates – This doesn’t give them enough time to get script approval, get shoot approval, get equipment, shoot the film, edit the film and turn it in for a grade!

I’m not sure what we’ll be viewing on Tuesday, but it should certainly be interesting in any event.  In the meantime, I’m really glad I’ve got mine shot and in an almost locked state for sound.  My production book is in a sorry state, but I can reorganize the pages and put that together with 20 minutes of uninterrupted time, so no biggie.  I’ve already done all of the work for it and it just needs to be assembled.

I worked the box office for Urinetown and the show had an amazing walk in crowd.  The box office took in around $1,300.00 in walk in sales!  Great crowd of pre sale and walk in with over 300 seats sold!

I wonder if they will sell out on Friday and Saturday.  The pre-sold seats already have the house at between 75% and 80% of capacity and the adjudication board is supposed to show up for one of these shows – what happens if they can’t get tickets???  Hopefully, they have already purchased in advance J.  If the show goes to nationals – that would be really, really big!

By the time we got home, again well after 10:00PM I was not in a mind set for packing luggage.  Guess that will have to happen in the morning.  I am sooooo tired!