Hello again!
It has been almost two weeks this time since my last blog post...sorry! Again I have been extremely busy and so when I get home I basically just go to bed.
This past week has been a mixture of emotions because everyone who was just in the 4 week filmmaking program instead of the 6 week went home. I didn't think you could make friends that you cared about this much in 4 weeks! I would say that the hardest goodbye was to Omayra Espino, she is this great girl from Puerto Rico who I hope will come visit or vice versa. I think her last film was one of my favourites that my classmates have made thus far. It was really well done and quite a creepy story!
Tomorrow will be my last day of shooting here in LA. All week we have been shooting our final projects. There are only four people in the 6 week filmmaking class so we each were given two days to shoot our final project that we all chose to shoot on digital. I only ended up using one of my days and another girl in my group only used one day so we had our first days off since being here! It was nice to be able to just relax.
I guess we didn't really relax though, we went to Disneyland! It was incredibly hot when we went on Tuesday and still there were so many people. It was crazy, most of the lines were over an hour long. Even with these conditions we managed to have a great time! The saviour of the day though were those stupid fans that also spray water because it was just so darn hot and you would stand in the sun for a long time waiting. The highlight of the day would have to have been splash mountain. I was in the front of the little log boat that you go in and I got totally soaked along with all of my stuff. We all got pretty wet and then we couldn't stop laughing for quite a while. I always think that I hate Disneyland but it was quite a good time and we ended up staying until around midnight.
On Sunday I had my film acting debut! I was the main actress for my friend Leticias last film. I can't wait to see the result, I just hope I did a good job for her last movie. It was a fun day because we got to shoot at the beach and it was another hot day so when we finished shooting I went swimming in the ocean in the dress I had been wearing for the shoot. It was really refreshing and a lot of fun.
Monday I shot my film and although I think I am happy with the footage I shot and the performances my actors gave me I am nervous because we haven't started editing yet and I don't know if it will cut together well. I will be able to relax once I see the footage on Monday. I used one girl named Catrina who was in the 4 week acting program who luckily stayed around for an extra week. She is always fantastic and I love working with her. For the other actress I used my friend Tamaris who was in the 4 week filmmaking program but she was kind enough to act in my film.
I shot my movie on July 4th so after we finished filming we all went to the pool at a big apartment complex and listened to a band they had playing then went over to someones house to watch the fireworks.
Other then that it was been a busy couple weeks with classes, editing, going out, and all the other things you can do it LA. I have a few more films that I haven't put online yet because they are apparently too big to upload to the sight I have been putting them on. I will figure something out and then post the two videos I haven't shown you yet!
I come home in just over a week (next sunday) and although I can't wait to see my family and friends I will definitely be sad to leave all of the new friends I have made and just the general routine I have gotten into here. I love making movies all the time. By the end of this I will have my name in the credits of 20 short films which is an insane amount for 6 weeks! It is a great start though and I can't wait to have my name in 20 more movies! I hope you all had a good couple of weeks. I miss you all!
