Happy Birthday America

First off, Firework suck in LA. The smog smothers them making them difficult to see, and there are WAY too many people to make the experience enjoyable. Something huge needs to happen around here to get people to move out of here. There are just too many people. And it makes the sky nasty. Yech. Of ALL days for it to be overcast, the sky chose 4th of July. Our goal today was to go to the beach since we had class off, but by the end of the day it was actually a little CHILLY outside! Ridiculous! We drove to Santa Monica because the girls wanted to do some shopping, which I was okay with because we saw Transformers so it seemed like a fair deal. I feel like I could write an entire blog about just that movie but I won't. I will say this: It was very entertaining and another great action movie by Michael Bay, but honestly, if I have learned one thing from my class at USC, it is this: Films are all about the story. Transformers was not. It was about awesome actions, Shia Labeouf and some really cool stunts and special effects. I feel like I need to call this trend the "300 effect" or something. The movie was fun to watch and visually very entertaining, but left me yearning for a little more from the story. This seems like a typical American movie for millions of Americans to watch on their independence day. Well enough about that....

While we were in Santa Monica, we saw a car crash happen right next to us in traffic trying to get to the beach! It was a pretty hard rear end, the guy's front bumper came off, he backed up, and drove over it...and from our point of view it completely looked like a hit and run which seems really stupid to me considering how many cops were around and how slow the traffic was going....what a "clown" as Tony would say. (gotta love the Canadians and their lingo).

About our picks for the four warner bros. stories. Mine didn't make it. Actually the musical got the most votes, but because of many logistical and time/financial reasons we had to lose that project because it just wasn't feasible for our class to do. My story didn't get enough votes, which after having a while to process and think about, I'm actually cool with. This means I get to pitch to produce or direct, which is actually what I would rather do (than writing) anyways. I'm pitching to produce my friend Tony and his story tomorrow. I'm not sure when I'll know if I got the "job" or not, but I'll post as soon as I know.

This weekend we are shooting our 30 second commercials, so that should be fun. I'm having trouble coming up with a good idea for a commercial and a product to sell, so if you have a good idea...let me know!

Allright I'm going to go prepare my producer pitch, hope you all had a great 4th of July! And to all of you that got to go to Sea bright Beach in Santa Cruz to see the mayhem: I envy you!