Grad School Update
Things are becoming pretty normal here. I'm settled in, and I feel pretty at home in the paint shop now. The nice thing about La Boheme is the entire thing is covered in a bunch of different textures, forcing me to learn a lot about most of the different textures I will be using right away. So I'm stating to get caught up as I learn how things work here. There is some laziness that drives me a little nuts, because if I'm there to do the work, and I know we have a lot to get done quickly, I'm going to work to the best of my ability, and hopefully get it done quickly. But quality comes first in my book.
Still five million things to learn though. I am very aware now that my drafting sucks some major ass. But apparently I do have vision and ability to create a set. So drafting [should] be easier to learn as it is a skill set. I didn't do much at all in the way of elevations, so I guess it's understandable that I wasn't doing them detailed enough.
Anyway, I'm finding plenty of things to do. Tonight is the designer run for my assisting practicum for the semester. I talked to Eric about what I could do to actually work on Metamorphases instead of just being there (which is what I feel like I've been doing at all of the meetings). So depending on how things go tonight, I may get some problems to fix or work on, and depending I might get to work a lot with the projections on the show, and then when I work on Cosi Van Tutte I might get to do the video editing for the projections. This all would be a really nice thing to know as projections are a really cool visual and as I know nothing about them, it would be really nice to know all about working them, making them, and getting to know the Watchout software. So that could be pretty exciting as something else useful to learn about.
So for now there's mostly researching for our next scene design project, Oedipus. After my meeting with Eric I'm feeling a lot more confident that the ideas can work, instead of going back and forth on how I feel about it. Plus he has so many good ideas on how to make things more engaging or just better. And I'm always like "that's a much better idea than what I had" or wondering why I can't seem to think that way. It's really cool how he does that. I'm jealous.
So basically. Things are going pretty well, and I don't feel stupid. I don't feel smart either though. So really I'm like a giant sponge ready to absorb more information, which is important if I want to learn over my 3 years here. So I think I'm on the right track.
I'm feeling very homesick though. I feel like part of me is missing without certain people here in my life. And there never seems to be enough time in a day to call people. (I'm aware that there is some time, but it tends to pass by me before I think of making the calls.
Still five million things to learn though. I am very aware now that my drafting sucks some major ass. But apparently I do have vision and ability to create a set. So drafting [should] be easier to learn as it is a skill set. I didn't do much at all in the way of elevations, so I guess it's understandable that I wasn't doing them detailed enough.
Anyway, I'm finding plenty of things to do. Tonight is the designer run for my assisting practicum for the semester. I talked to Eric about what I could do to actually work on Metamorphases instead of just being there (which is what I feel like I've been doing at all of the meetings). So depending on how things go tonight, I may get some problems to fix or work on, and depending I might get to work a lot with the projections on the show, and then when I work on Cosi Van Tutte I might get to do the video editing for the projections. This all would be a really nice thing to know as projections are a really cool visual and as I know nothing about them, it would be really nice to know all about working them, making them, and getting to know the Watchout software. So that could be pretty exciting as something else useful to learn about.
So for now there's mostly researching for our next scene design project, Oedipus. After my meeting with Eric I'm feeling a lot more confident that the ideas can work, instead of going back and forth on how I feel about it. Plus he has so many good ideas on how to make things more engaging or just better. And I'm always like "that's a much better idea than what I had" or wondering why I can't seem to think that way. It's really cool how he does that. I'm jealous.
So basically. Things are going pretty well, and I don't feel stupid. I don't feel smart either though. So really I'm like a giant sponge ready to absorb more information, which is important if I want to learn over my 3 years here. So I think I'm on the right track.
I'm feeling very homesick though. I feel like part of me is missing without certain people here in my life. And there never seems to be enough time in a day to call people. (I'm aware that there is some time, but it tends to pass by me before I think of making the calls.