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Things are progressing, it looks like there might finally be some light at the end of the tunnel. Yesterday morning I got a call from a company called Follow Productions. I honestly haven't the slightest idea how they got their hands on my resume, but they were interested. They're offering a (unfortunately unpaid) post-production internship for a couple months that would likely segue to an assistant editor post after they confirm that I'm not lying about my B.F.A. Either an overnight post in July or a day post later on, they said. I don't necessarily have it yet, but I've got an interview booked tomorrow and feel pretty good about my chances. I found a job posting for the same internship, and unlike most of the other stuff I've applied to where I'm stretching a bit to meet the qualifications, I totally do for this place. I'm a little nervous about the whole deal of going a few months without pay in New York, but I talked to Mom and the parental units seem okay with it and told me to go for it.
On the apartment front, I haven't been able to do much real searching because my time's been booked so heavily. Like a fool, I really don't want to bite for a place until I've seen it, automatically putting me at a disadvantage, because of course there's somebody so desperate they'll put down a deposit based on a twenty word ad with no photos. Anyway, I'm not going to really get a good shot until I get some time to book a viewing appointment within 12 hours or so of my calling. So basically this Thursday afternoon, and then next weekend, since this one is NYCC and I'm deluding myself into thinking that things will be peachy even if I go. (which is possible, I guess.) I'm seriously considering maybe trying to find something on Staten Island, maybe right around in walking distance of the ferry. It's probably overly motivated by the notion of getting to ride a boat to work every day.
I still haven't really started my essays, at least in terms of actually opening words and making save files for them. I did finally drag myself to the library to watch Nobi/Fires on the Plain (yes, it's probably the same one you read, Anna, it's based on a novel). It was pretty much the feel good movie of the year. Cannibalism, hooray. Anyway, I got a decent enough page of notes, I guess. If I work hard and I'm lucky, I should be able to drag the seven pages I need out of it. Maybe. I worry that I won't have a concrete enough thesis, though. Not much work on my Hong Kong Cinema essay of yet, however. I still haven't quite had a topic click with me. I think I might just opt for one of the broader topics listed as an alternative to coming up with our own. Perhaps Violence and the Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema, discussing the varying takes on it and comparing it to westerns and samurai films. How the violent implications of kung fu are treated differently in, say, Jackie Chan films and Bruce Lee films.
Apparently Spielberg lobbied like crazy and scored the rights to an adaptation of the Ghost in the Shell manga (props to him for going to the original work, not the inferior Oshii knockoff) for Dreamworks. I'm kind of torn, part of me thinks that a live action/CG version wouldn't work, that the American studios would probably get it wrong on the level with how they got Transformers wrong, that there doesn't need to be ANOTHER adaptation of the series (this would make four separate canon universes), the other part of me wants to see it really bad.
Work's pretty easy so far this week. Yesterday they were doing a shoot in the office to get some B-roll of people in front of a white background, which was kind of interesting. I got to get out for a couple hours to go see the woman who knows a guy who went to high school with Dad's choir director. (A meeting which didn't get any real job prospects, but I got some good pointers. Gave me the names of the big NY post houses that tend to be hiring more often, a couple job sites I hadn't heard of before.) The rest of the day was transcription. Today's looking to be even easier. I'm actually typing this on email at work to post later because I've asked everyone, and nobody has a single thing for me to work on. Zilch.
Tonight at get a job class they're winding down and doing a resume workshop. I, of course, forgot my resume. I've already passed the course and they're having ANOTHER workshop next week, but I still kind of want to go to this so maybe I'll drop by the dorm and grab a copy.
On the apartment front, I haven't been able to do much real searching because my time's been booked so heavily. Like a fool, I really don't want to bite for a place until I've seen it, automatically putting me at a disadvantage, because of course there's somebody so desperate they'll put down a deposit based on a twenty word ad with no photos. Anyway, I'm not going to really get a good shot until I get some time to book a viewing appointment within 12 hours or so of my calling. So basically this Thursday afternoon, and then next weekend, since this one is NYCC and I'm deluding myself into thinking that things will be peachy even if I go. (which is possible, I guess.) I'm seriously considering maybe trying to find something on Staten Island, maybe right around in walking distance of the ferry. It's probably overly motivated by the notion of getting to ride a boat to work every day.
I still haven't really started my essays, at least in terms of actually opening words and making save files for them. I did finally drag myself to the library to watch Nobi/Fires on the Plain (yes, it's probably the same one you read, Anna, it's based on a novel). It was pretty much the feel good movie of the year. Cannibalism, hooray. Anyway, I got a decent enough page of notes, I guess. If I work hard and I'm lucky, I should be able to drag the seven pages I need out of it. Maybe. I worry that I won't have a concrete enough thesis, though. Not much work on my Hong Kong Cinema essay of yet, however. I still haven't quite had a topic click with me. I think I might just opt for one of the broader topics listed as an alternative to coming up with our own. Perhaps Violence and the Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema, discussing the varying takes on it and comparing it to westerns and samurai films. How the violent implications of kung fu are treated differently in, say, Jackie Chan films and Bruce Lee films.
Apparently Spielberg lobbied like crazy and scored the rights to an adaptation of the Ghost in the Shell manga (props to him for going to the original work, not the inferior Oshii knockoff) for Dreamworks. I'm kind of torn, part of me thinks that a live action/CG version wouldn't work, that the American studios would probably get it wrong on the level with how they got Transformers wrong, that there doesn't need to be ANOTHER adaptation of the series (this would make four separate canon universes), the other part of me wants to see it really bad.
Work's pretty easy so far this week. Yesterday they were doing a shoot in the office to get some B-roll of people in front of a white background, which was kind of interesting. I got to get out for a couple hours to go see the woman who knows a guy who went to high school with Dad's choir director. (A meeting which didn't get any real job prospects, but I got some good pointers. Gave me the names of the big NY post houses that tend to be hiring more often, a couple job sites I hadn't heard of before.) The rest of the day was transcription. Today's looking to be even easier. I'm actually typing this on email at work to post later because I've asked everyone, and nobody has a single thing for me to work on. Zilch.
Tonight at get a job class they're winding down and doing a resume workshop. I, of course, forgot my resume. I've already passed the course and they're having ANOTHER workshop next week, but I still kind of want to go to this so maybe I'll drop by the dorm and grab a copy.