The past week

So staying up last week seemed to work, think I did pretty well on that test.  Only thing is I was dead tired after the test and even worse after giving blood.  Not the best move on my part.

The rest of the week seemed to go by like any other. Shooting the news: one of our best episodes we had done. Classes: as boring as ever. WOW Factor: Used a green-screen to shoot the entire show, either it will come out really cool, or it will look like shit, We'll see.

This past weekend we had another shoot, 2 more 12hr days... loads of fun...
Anyway at least we're almost done, we have this upcoming weekend off and then the next weekend is our last 2 days of shooting.  Everyone is looking forward to finally being done with the shooting of this movie.  Once were done we can finally get into the editing process which a group of people in the class are looking forward to.  Haven't decided if i want to help out with that yet. Plan is to sit in for a bit and see how it is. If i like it and find it to be "fun" then yah, I'll help.

Did something to my knee today while doing some kickboxing.  Hurts to move, hurts while lying down, hurts to think about.  Hopefully it's nothin to serious and will get better soonish.

Not much more going on, group presentation tomorrow for ethics that I'm not ready for and just gonna pull outa my ass. but eh, w/e.

Well,
`till next time
~Jboll3

So here we are again...

Yep, its another all nighter for me.  I have a test in the morning that i have to study for and a paper i need to start. So here i am sitting at my computer thinking about going to sleep and deciding that it would be a better idea to not sleep and just stay up the entire night. at least i have a pot of coffee made and ready for when i finish my current cup.  For some reason this week is just so busy. today i had class, then a group project meeting then i had to go to the edit suites for 5-6hrs to work on my animation some more.  We looked over the animations in class today and they had some ideas of how to make it better, so I went in and changed it around a bit.  Now im sitting at my desk with my ethics book studying for a test tomorrow in business ethics, not looking forward to it at all.

What makes me staying up being an even better idea is that tomorrow i go from 9:40am - 7pm straight through. oh and I'm giving blood. haha, lets see how this goes.

'till next time
~Jboll3

this works

Well this was a pleasant surprise.  I wake up early this morning, get ready and head out for another day of shooting.  I get to where we are all meeting and the director decides that we are going to cancel the shoot because it was too cold outside and the building we were going to be shooting in has no heat.  So today I've been able just to lay around.

Yesterday we had a day off from the movie.  I spent it relaxing in the morning, just laid in bed till 3pm watching Netflix.  Then I went to the communications building on campus and worked on my production logo.  Was in there for 6hrs working on it.  Thankfully Netflix supplied some sort of entertainment while i worked. I finished My logo, its a 10sec long animation, it should be posted on my website within the next week or two, once teacher gets done with it.  I'll prob head back over to the communications building in a lil bit and work on a few more animations i have to make, haven't decided yet.

As for now, just laying in bed. enjoying the weekend that i have off.  Just relaxing, kind of wishing i was back at home or round there where it snowed, somehow, today. Oh well.

`till next time
~Jboll3

So, lets see...

Whats new?
Well, last weekend we went to shoot in an old abandoned mill up in Eden, NC.  We spent 12 hours there on both Saturday and Sunday.  Lets just say it wasn't the best time.  Paint flaking off everything, (walls, ceiling, pillars), Dirt everywhere, trash scattered about, random puddles of water and oil around some of the rooms. And to help it all, it was rather cold those days to, no electricity in the building so no heat.  Would probably had been not so bad if they actually had me do something but as 2nd AD im not really finding myself doing anything, and as props master they call me maybe once every 2-3hrs to bring them something. so most the time I'm just sitting there.

Then this past week nothing new really happened, just the usual stuff. I directed another episode of the news, first take alot of things went wrong but our second take was almost perfect, so lil bit of editing and it should look halfway decent.

And then we have this weekend.  the Producer and the 1st Assistant Director are not going to be here for the shoots this weekend, Friday and Sunday, so im doing the 1st Assistant Directors job. Just had to call a few commands and stay on set the entire time, which wouldn't be so bad if the set wasn't in a small dorm room; so it gets very hot with all the lighting we have to bring in.  But we got through it last night, took us 7hrs.  This is the first Saturday I've had off from the movie.  Tomorrow we have another shoot in the schools warehouse, I'm calling the commands again but this shouldn't be so bad because we have more room this time.

I can't believe that the semester is almost over, seems like it just started... kinda

Well thats all here

'till next time
~Jboll3

Spring break and onward.

So spring break was last week. Not too bad, rather boring though.  Ended up just sittin round the house most the week cause nothing going on back round my home.  Then finally towards the end of break got to do some stuff.  I drove down and met a friend and drove back up to her school.  Spent time with her for a few days. We ran the DC Saint Patrick's Day 8K on Sunday.  It was tough but fun.  I finished just over an hr, about 20min after her, lol.  And Duke won ACC championship!!!

Now back at school, back in the rut. Everything is the same. Still busy, very busy.
Now that the 8K is over had to find something to keep me motivated to keep going to the gym. So now I've started P90X.  Today is Day 3. So far its going pretty well, however it is really really painful. This workout is really intense, defiantly since im not used to working out like this.  But I'm determined to get through it and do the full regiment.  Who knows, maybe it'll work and ill actually get into shape. We'll see.

Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day, and it was rather boring for me.  I was busy all day till about 9:00 at night so didn't get to drink or party much. first St Patrick's Day for a while that i was sober all day, oh well

Tomorrow and Sunday I have to go up to Eden, NC for a few scenes for the movie.  Were shooting in an abandoned warehouse.  yah... this will be fun... Oh well, maybe if im lucky we'll be done quickly.

other than that nothing else really going on

'till next time
~Jboll3

One more week down, 11 more to go

So this semester is taking its toll. Less sleep than I would like to be getting.  Way too much work. Just busy as can be. The lack of weekends isn't helping at all.


We started shooting the movie last weekend. The first day, Saturday, we shot in a small classroom for 9hrs. I ended up being an extra because we have been having problems getting enough people to volunteer to be extras.  It was... well not fun. I ended up just sitting there for 9hrs straight and pretty much doing nothing.  Apparently i ruined a take because i had a "strange facial expression." Oh well, it happens. I didn't sign up to be an actor. 
Then Sunday we did another 9hrs of shooting. Thank god we were at least in a little bit more of an open space.  This time I just spent most the time sitting around.  Few times I got called in to be an extra just to walk in front of the camera. But other than that, after i had all the extras signed in and the set dressed I did nothing.


This weekends shoot is gonna be worse than last weekends.  We're shooting in a dorm room. I already set everything up yesterday.  But I still have to be there just in case anything goes wrong.  So for today I head over and I get to sit in someones bedroom for about 9hrs, most likely not doing anything, while they shoot in the other room.  hopefully I can be on skype most the time, we'll see.  And then I get to do it again tomorrow.


Thankfully this is our last weekend of shooting before spring break.  My break starts on Thursday.  So I'm planning on leaving straight from classes and getting on the road.  No real plans for most of break.  Playing it by ear for the most part, we'll see what happens.  Towards the end of break I have that 8k with my best friend, hopefully we'll be ready.  


The first actual show that I've ever directed has been posted to the web, http://bit.ly/gCSzK1. Yah I've directed a few shows for class before but those were for a grade and weren't serious really. This is a news broadcast that HPU has weekly. and now I'm the director for the program. So lil bit of pressure. I watched over this first one I did, I see my mistakes, and I'm ready to fix them and make a better show next week. we'll see on Tuesday.

Thats about it here,

'till next time

~Jboll3

Finally the end of the week...

Soooooo...
This week has been rather long.  Classes eh... had a TV news shoot on Tuesday and today I had a WOW Factor shoot (our variety show).  Seemed like everything that could go wrong for the WOW Factor recording, did.  The guest we were gonna interview didn't show up, mic's kept dieing, a few graphic and video glitches. But in the end everything seemed to come together rather well.  The director was really stressed about the whole show and was worried that it didn't turn out fine, but im sure once we get done editing it will be one of the best ones done so far.

The movie the communications department is shooting the first scene on Saturday.  First of many long, long days of shooting. We shoot every weekend till the end of the semester.  Only break I get is spring break and one weekend near the end of the semester.  So, this will be interesting to say the least.

Next week i direct my first news show.  I'm not even part of the class that i will be directing for but apparently the teacher wants me to direct for her class so I guess at least its good practice for when i graduate since thats what i want to do in the long-run.  I'm nervous about it though.  I really don't want to screw up since its pretty much on me what it looks like.  Oh well, we'll see.  Sure it won't be too bad.

Still training for the 8K. So far so good, haven't missed any of my days for my regiment, so i guess thats good. It's still hard to force myself to go on days that i really don't want to move but I'm getting through it. It is slowly getting easier and easier for me to work out, i can go longer than i could before without having to stop so i guess it's working; at least a little.

Thats about it for now

'till next time
~Jboll3