Faculty Review

I've spent over three months rigorously preparing my capstone, not including the months of research, and I have nothing to show for it.  It's truly the great American heartbreak.  My task during my review session was to convince the Mass Communication faculty that I've actually been doing something, and I think I achieved that.

Metaphor

The important thing for me was to present my oh so disappointing capstone situation, but not to dwell on it.  Whenever I have a sob story to tell, especially to a room full of college professors, I try to keep it as brief as possible because people have heard it all before.  I wanted to lay out my situation, but instead of wallowing in self pity, (which I'm still doing in private) I wanted to lay out my plan to fix the issues I've been faced with.  Even though Dr. Kushin looked both scared and confused, I feel like I did a pretty good job.

Dr. Williams specifically said that he liked the idea of taking my screenplay and cutting it to a more manageable size instead of shooting a trailer.  That was really the reassurance I was looking for.  After putting months of work into this monstrosity, I wanted to have something shot.  I was worried that shooting something that's more of a spiritual predecessor to my original script than a shortened version of it would make my project too scattered, so receiving clear support of that idea was really helpful.

I'm actually nearly halfway through shooting my project right now.  I took the weekend and shot about five pages of my script.  Tomorrow I'm shooting one page, Wednesday I'm shooting 2 pages, and next Monday, I'm shooting the last three pages.  Once I finish with this blog, I'm going to edit the footage I shot this weekend.  This puts me on track to finish my film just in time for presentations. Yipee!