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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2024 18:23:49 GMT
Film school chronicles
Lot's more to follow.
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2024 18:24:32 GMT
Film school, no film school, I gotta get my butt up and out of here for a while.
At my age, you can't just sit on your butt all day behind a computer screen.
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2024 20:11:27 GMT
One of the reasons why I signed up for, enrolled, and paid for this film academy is to 'save my life'.
In that I need discipline again in my life, accountability, and school tends to do that to you, where you have schedules, appointments, assignments, and where others are holding you accountable.
That's when you begin to learn a lot about yourself beyond just words and boasting.
Like I was about to have a few beers, after getting back from working out in the park, but then admissions person called, and new we have a zoom meeting in a few hours, so now, I can't drink, won't drink, do to that meeting, but only cause it's a zoom, where they can see you.
But that's what I mean, and you string enough moments like that together and soon booze, alcohol, becomes a after thought.
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2024 20:13:56 GMT
And school also helps me to not procrastinate so much, as I've done in my personal life for decades.
I have to relearn how to do things 'now', as in 'right now', instead of always putting stuff off into the future, until to drunk to care or get it done.
School will help me get back in mental and moral shape, is what I'm hoping.
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2024 20:18:58 GMT
And I'm doing this to re-establish relationship with others, something I haven't had in years
Another good thing about school (regardless of your age) is it keeps you engaged with others.
In school, you're around others, and thus form, create, new relationships that usually last a lifetime.
I've been cut off from others for years, and the types of jobs I work (blue collar stuff, driving, ect) you just don't form those deep bonding relationships as you do in school or college.
Relationships are life.
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2024 18:11:45 GMT
Today was my first shoot (film session, real life, actually filming an event)
Since I'm new, I was pretty much the 'runner', meaning the one who grabs equipment for others, lifts bags, ect.
If was for a police dog memorial, of all things.
Lots of officers there.
I'm home now, and pretty wore out.
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2024 18:29:17 GMT
I don't know how to feel right now, cause today I did something so out of the range of my normal activity, was around very high brass important people, cops, bugle guy, bag pipes guy, I'm just overwhelmed right now a bit.
And two and a half months ago I was getting off of a lousy shift of driving a semi-truck...things have changed drastically since then.
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Post by Admin on May 1, 2024 15:43:54 GMT
As a older person trying to learn a new skill, I'm finding out that I'm pretty hollow on the inside.
I've gotten this far in life, not really on acclaimed accomplishments or knowledge, but rather just by doing, partaking in the minimums.
Just enough to get by and survive, as such, it has made me lazy, it's made my mind lazy, and I lose focus quickly.
But now that in school, this school, I'm having to retrain my mind to 'learn' things again, and to have the patients to learn things, and to not see everything in terms of a paycheck.
It's not an easy task.
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