Woo boy. Today was exhausting! Today started with my Dad and I running around trying to figure out how to get my housing keys and how to move in to my apartment. We ran out of time and I had to run over to campus and go to orientation, which ended up being about 2 hours. It was mostly pretty boring except for when they started talking about using firearms or animals or minors in our films, kind interesting stuff to be lectured on, but quite kinda boring after that starting repeating it. Not that this is a surprise, but there is a LOT of red-tape in this business. Hiring actors, doing stunts, using animals or other kinds of props, shooting at certain locations, man you better be in for the time and paperwork, because it is a tedious process. Once you get it down though, seems like it is generally pretty quick and routine, but still very important.
Then after orientation I got my USC ID Card which makes me feel pretty official around here. I can use any of the facilities I want, which is pretty rad. Right after that, I rad into an old friend from high school that I knew went to USC, but wasn't sure if he was here for the summer. Lo and behold, there he was: Dan Tkach! Haven't seen him for like 2 or 3 years, so it was pretty cool to get to see him. We'll definitely hang out this summer.
Class met at one in the George Lucas building. Our class meets in a small screening room (basically a tiny movie theater.) We were in there from 1-5 with pretty much no break. That's tough, especially when you aren't into the interesting stuff yet and just are going over the class and the syllabus and all that. Surprisingly, I wasn't bored, because I was so dang excited! It was great to meet other people from the class too. Our class is like the freakin' United Nations, it's pretty cool. My professor is 67 and is French with a decent accent, our Student Assistant is a black dude from England with a GREAT accent. I love it. They both pronounce "schedule": "shhhedjoole." It's fannnntastic.
There are also people I met from Norway, Poland, Israel, Asia (can't remember which country) and people from all over the US (Oregon, Maryland, LA (duh) ) There are 3 kids that are high schoolers, most people are my age, and a few people that are like 25-27 or so and one guy in his 30's. Seems like for the most part, I'm not too far behind in experience. Everyone seems to have the same high amount of desire and passion for film, and have just a little of experience, like me! So not too intimidating like I thought it was going to be!
I also found out that we will be going to the Warner Bros. lot every Thursday! We are going to get the VIP and professional tours and probably get to meet some pretty cool people while we are there. My first assignment: to read the entire Malcolm X script. Tonight. Okay, not happening, because after class got out, I hadn't even begun to unpack, was starving and it was already 5pm. I'm finally all finished moving in, have groceries, and can start reading my scripts (which I have to do online....) but now it's time to go to bed since I have class at nine!
Well that's most of today, I'll update later about my apartment, and roommates and such. Oh: my roomie is not 28, but one of my suite mates is. My roomie is 21, and his name is Jerry. Okay it's late, I need to sleep!
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