I finally did it. I started one of the most egotistical blogs on the planet. Just playing, truthfully my reason for creating Wade's World is for those people out there curious about the life of a person who moved far away, keeping a long distance relationship and leaving family and friends to pursue a career behind the camera in filmmaking. I am about halfway to receiving my Bachelor's Degree at Full Sail University and I have learned more about film then I could ever have imagined. I no longer watch movies the same because I constantly ask how they did that, or problem solve in my head to figure out how.
THE ISSUES
I get pretty personal sometimes, but I am a genuine person. I can safely say that I currently am holding no grudges against anyone. What might make this blog appealing to you all is the issues and problems behind this lifestyle choice. Well me and my classmates at Full Sail are constantly tested by will are passion for the job. Two classes are completed each month, which means 2 finals and 2 midterms a month. Sometimes its hard to schedule all that in, so we usually have 4 hour intervals of class mostly every day and some late nights, including 1am - 5am and 5am to 9am labs.
We all suffer from a severe lack of sleep. Filmmaking is Problem-Solving. So through this blog I will discuss my adventures with my fellow classmates solving such problems. I also have times that I struggle from being homesick, but I mostly miss my girlfriend, her name is Tara Montgomery, we have dated a year and three months now, eight of those months being long distance. She currently attends Marshall University in my hometown of Huntington, West Virginia and has plans to move down here with me in the summer to attend Valencia Community College.
THE SITUATION OF TODAY
I'm not going to bore you with some cliche' biography of myself, I am the least interesting person. So I'm going to get right down to my first segment of today, April 4th 2011. One year from now I will be graduating with a Bachelor's Degree. I slept about four hours last night, not to bad anything above four hours is usually ideal. I just had one class today, it was a lecture for Documentary Filmmaking 1. Last month we had a class called Digital Cinematography 2 where we did our first class production, a short film titled "The Final Slice." I was the Gaffer for the production, not and ideal position, but I'm not complaining. Well its working similar to this class, for DCI (Digital Cinematography) we had our first month, which was February to go through the stages of pre-production. Then we shot the film in two 12 hour days in March. We are currently Editing the film in our Editing and Visual Effects (EVE) class.
Where was I? Oh yeah! Documentary Filmmaking (DFM) we recently picked positions in our group for our upcoming production, and our plot outline. Diego's idea beat mine out by a little, a biographical take on the life of Glen Rogers a man who currently owns the Boom Art store specializing in pop art on furniture. This man has also worked for SNL and was a clown for The Wringling Brothers. So I was more than content with the idea. I was given the position of the Unit Production Manager (UPM) which is a pretty big role. I basically put together the Wrap Book which contains the Treatment, Contact List, Specific Dates/Times, Talent Releases, ect. Making sure all these papers are properly filled out is my responsibility, I am the link between the crew and our producer.
Today's discussion in class was about that paper work and we were told of our shoot days, which can be picked out of three days when we come back from Spring Break in May. These instructors are also urging us to go hard with our post production on this project, something I am good at. After this film is complete and edited I will make sure it hits up as many local film festivals as it can. We then concluded our class with a film titled "Murderball" a very intriguing documentary about the sport of murderball played by paraplegics. I loved it, an amazing film. I went and got lunch at Moe's afterwords then came home tired, and ready for a nap. I just finished my homework for DFM and now I will nap and then prepare for a class and lab worth of EVE tomorrow. Stay Tuned!
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