Broadcast Camp

At the end of June, five of our journalism team went to a broadcast camp at UT in Austin. This was the short film we made over the 4 day camp:

Film idea

I have a short film idea loosely based on my love life.
This is exciting. haha

It's going to be called "3 Weeks Later" because that's the magic number that I decide I really don't see a point to be the relationship I'm in... until one day.
:)

LA Film Schools

I've been working on this so it's still rough but I thought I'd let you take a look and add things you might know... I'll add more later. (maybe tomorrow)

Over the past week I have toured Loyola Marymount University, Chapman University, and the University of Southern California and their respective film schools. All are private universities, highly selective and competitive, and cost between 40,000 to 47,000 dollars a year.
Here are the Pros and Cons (in my opinion):

-LMU-

The Pros: Location (in LA by LAX airport). Small (5000 undergrads). Very independent "do-what-you-want" feel. You own the films you make at LMU. Decent studios and equipment. Plenty of Internships.

The Cons: Limited Avid. No 35 mm/ film cameras. Facilities are not as great as CU or USC.

-CU-

The Pros: Small (4000 undergrads). Avid Exclusive (industry standard). State of the art facilities, just built last year (over $40 million building). Attracts many professional studios (students get to work on those projects).

The Cons: Location (Orange is an hour drive from LA and from San Diego). Internships maybe harder to get with the location (but you probably won't be able to take advantage of them in the production track).

-USC- (The Top School)

The Pros: Location (Downtown LA). Avid Exclusive (industry standard). State of the art facilities, with a whole new building being completed and occupied in December of 2008 ($175 million endowment from George Lucas). Tons of internships and Alumni/Faculty recommendations (but you probably won't be needing them until you graduate).

The Cons: [It is easier to get into Harvard Law than this program; 45 get in out of 1700 applicants] Large (14,000 undergrads). No hands-on till Sophomore year. Course load is so heavy virtually impossible to intern or study abroad. Not possible to double major in screenwriting or most other majors. Minoring is hard too. You do not own your films at USC.

Other Questions:
How many students double major or minor who are in the production program?
Are students able to study abroad at all in the production program?
How hands on is your program in the freshman year?

Cory in the House...

well I haven't updated much but I'd thought today would be a good day to catch up.

Happy Independence Day!

Tonight I got to be a VIP guest of Madison Pettis (Sophie) from Cory in the House, to be in a live studio audience recording of one of the upcoming shows (it'll show sometime in August)! It was actually very interesting to watch. They had a four camera set up in the studio where they moved from set to set for each scene. The booms were on these fancy automated mounts (the boom operators just sat there and twisted knobs and pressed buttons). There were a ton of people on set, a crew of at least 40... I'm used to about 20 or less. After they were finished shooting, we got to meet the entire cast and have a piece of cake for Jason Dolley's 16th birthday! It was awesome.
Then we chilled in Madison's dressing room for a bit, which was decorated very cute with an awesome purple couch. Check out her next movie The Game Plan with The Rock coming out this fall!

Evan Almighty was corny but cute.

And Fight Club is one of my new all-time favorites.

The White Stripes new album Icky Thump is fabulous go pick it up and check out The Bravery if you haven't listened to them yet.

and that's about it on new stuff...
Next post: Los Angeles Colleges and their Film schools