Sullivan's Travels

Wait, what? I'm moving to LA on Thursday?! No matter how many times I say that, it still doesn't seem real. I don't think it will seem real to me until I am on my way there. But yeah, on Thursday, my mom and I will begin our 24 hour (yeah, a whole day) drive, through two time zones, to Los Angeles. I'm really not looking forward to that drive, but at least there will be two of us. Orientation begins on Saturday with I think a dinner. We still don't really know what our schedule looks like for next semester. I guess they like to keep things interesting. From what I can gather though, I will be taking classes on Tuesday/Thursday and working at my internship on Monday/Wednesday/Friday.

I will be taking three classes next fall: Faith and Artistic Develpoment in Film, Hollywood Production Workshop, and Narrative Storytelling. Faith in Film (what I am going to call it since that name is ridiculously long...) is our bible class for the semester. We will be learning about what it means to be a person of faith in the film world. In Production Workshop, we will go through the entire process of making a festival ready film (this class sound strangely familiar *cough* Advanced Creative Production *cough*). But in seriousness, I learned a lot in ACP and I really think that it will help me be prepared for Production Workshop, since I will know what to expect. Narrative Storytelling is our elective class. The other two choices being Screenwriting (been there done that...) or Professional Acting (yeah, um, no), so Storytelling seemed like the best option. In this class we will divide up into one of two tracks: a history based one where we learn the history of story, or a technical track where we learn about the aspects of cinematography and post-production. After that, we will group back up and make two short films. So for those who have been keeping count, we will be making not one, not two, but THREE short films this semester. In addition to those classes, I will have an internship for 20-24 hours a week, which doesn't seem like much, but considering it's only three days a week, that 7 to 8 hours a day. Also, it seems that I will be quite busy next semester so that number seems good.

The apartments I will be staying at

The school provides apartments for us. Now, these aren't you kiddy college apartments, these are real people apartments. People not going to school will live around me. That just seems weird. However, the apartments do come completely furnished. With beds, and couches, and a TV, and a DVD player. Wait! That's more than college apartments give! I know. Isn't LA great. The apartment complex also comes with a gym (state-of-the-art), wi-fi, a pool (olympic sized), a multimedia theatre (yeah, we have our own theatre) and an onsite video rental. Go here and be jealous! -->http://www.parklabrea.com  There will be five of us in one apartment, but as you probably gathered from the things that it comes with, these are pretty nice apartments, so five people isn't going to be too big of a deal.

This week I have been packing and cleaning all in order to get ready for Thursday. I finally got around to unpacking from OC (I know, I'm terrible) and I got rid of everything that I don't need and, amazingly, I have a lot more room in my trunk than I expected. I still have a lot more to do, including laundry (so that I can actually have clothes to pack), getting kitchen stuff (so I can eat next semester), and just finish putting all my stuff together. I am very excited about next semester. I hope that you all will keep up with my blog to see how I'm doing, cause I don't want to have to tell what I do multiple times...


I'm going to miss everybody next semester! I will see you next Spring!