i don't even know
I feel kinda blank. Prague was so helpful and interesting, but in the end, I feel a little like I failed in my objectives. No real improvement in the social factor, and while people really liked the film we made, I feel like the end product was good for all of the stuff that had nothing to do with me. (Also, no, it is not online yet.) I look back and I feel like I could have done so much different, but I couldn't get the creativity to go, and now I want to try and do a bit on my own so I'll fee like I matter, but it's still not coming. Not to say things were bad; I really miss the Czech friends I made in the cast and crew and good cheap beer and trams and the clubs and people to go to clubs with. I am really happy that I learned so much about film and cameras and met the people that I met. I wish I had traveled more, but hopefully someday I can save some money and go back and go traveling around Europe.
I do have a pretty good internship though, at an indie production company. It's not like, tiny though; they're finishing up shooting of an HBO miniseries, and they've done quite a few films (the most famous of which being I'm Not There). Even cooler, the office is currently in Steiner Studios, so I'm in an actual studio lot two days a week. My boss even said I could probably slip into a set and watch as long as it wasn't a closed set, but unfortunately, it seems like all of the sets for our production are closed, and I assume I'm not really allowed to just waltz into a different production's set (even if I really would like to check out the In Treatment set/eat their food). The useful parts of my job are that I get to do script coverage and occasionally watch reels people have submitted, though most of the scripts aren't that good (the last one I read was mind-bendingly bad). Unfortunately, I have to do a lot of typical intern bullshit like being a gofer and booking the higher-up's plane tickets and looking up how much iPads are and picking up medication and those types of frustrating things.
I need something to do for the rest of the week though; I don't know why, but I've been really exhausted and sleepy lately. I also don't have a lot of money at all; my mom's giving me less than usual and I'm buying monthly metrocards because sometimes I'll be going back and forth both days I'm working, but they take a big chunk of money as opposed to the little chunks that refilling one would. That means at the moment, going to see movies in theaters is right out; as if New York prices weren't ridiculous enough, they increased while I was gone. Also, I'm still getting used to the prices here after Prague, which was just generally cheaper. I might ask Mom for $200 so I can do this lighting workshop so I can learn some stuff as well as do something for a weekend, though I might look around for something cheaper or more long term or maybe even attempt to get on a set. I'm reading a cinematography book right now, and maybe sometime I'll take a drawing class and maybe storyboard? I don't even know.
I do have a pretty good internship though, at an indie production company. It's not like, tiny though; they're finishing up shooting of an HBO miniseries, and they've done quite a few films (the most famous of which being I'm Not There). Even cooler, the office is currently in Steiner Studios, so I'm in an actual studio lot two days a week. My boss even said I could probably slip into a set and watch as long as it wasn't a closed set, but unfortunately, it seems like all of the sets for our production are closed, and I assume I'm not really allowed to just waltz into a different production's set (even if I really would like to check out the In Treatment set/eat their food). The useful parts of my job are that I get to do script coverage and occasionally watch reels people have submitted, though most of the scripts aren't that good (the last one I read was mind-bendingly bad). Unfortunately, I have to do a lot of typical intern bullshit like being a gofer and booking the higher-up's plane tickets and looking up how much iPads are and picking up medication and those types of frustrating things.
I need something to do for the rest of the week though; I don't know why, but I've been really exhausted and sleepy lately. I also don't have a lot of money at all; my mom's giving me less than usual and I'm buying monthly metrocards because sometimes I'll be going back and forth both days I'm working, but they take a big chunk of money as opposed to the little chunks that refilling one would. That means at the moment, going to see movies in theaters is right out; as if New York prices weren't ridiculous enough, they increased while I was gone. Also, I'm still getting used to the prices here after Prague, which was just generally cheaper. I might ask Mom for $200 so I can do this lighting workshop so I can learn some stuff as well as do something for a weekend, though I might look around for something cheaper or more long term or maybe even attempt to get on a set. I'm reading a cinematography book right now, and maybe sometime I'll take a drawing class and maybe storyboard? I don't even know.