what about behind closed doors

so, listening real time dialogue can give you mass amounts of insight on how to write more naturally for characters, or how to better project concepts to your consumer. What about what people say in "private" or under their breathe. what about facebook or tweeter? with each status update people want the rest of their friends to indirectly know what they feel think and are doing at that moment. whether you wrote a vague comment relating to a certain love interest, or for specific example, expressing your pretencious ideologies to somehow persuade those around you to buy into your minimal efforts to actually creating anything worth deeming art.

Sorry for the side rant, but it further more proves my point, how much does this change how a person is percieved? Just because you don't mention it doen't mean it might not pertain to you. I might make a negative jewish remark ( not that I would with ill driven intentions) but I have no idea who actually might be jewish. I guess for comercials sake you just keep it safe. How do people actually dance around the social taboos out there? It's always funny when you can tell someone notices that they are just diggin themselves a deeper hole.

just cause you call it art doesn't mean its art. and if you are paying all this money to say that, then you are just making yourelf look dumb.

conversation

working at walgreens gives me a nice view of all the crazy people that depend of medications to not kill people. The other day we had someone bring in a fake prescription for 120 caps of oxicodone. What made it interesting is my prior encounters with him when I worked in photo. It's really wierd to see someone be caught in that act. how do "bad" guys really react or feel.

The other day, we had to take someone's plate away at the cafeteria because they didn't pay for food, knowing well we where just about to through it all away anyway. would that make them bad, the dialog was interesting in the sense that I knew this person, enough to feel bad for them. I saw myself in the same shoes because I myself use to sneak into the cafeteria and steal food. but at the same time my job is to make sure she paid. I convinced the guys I work with to jsut let her eat and in the end all was well.

How crazy is crazy really? to what degree have we actually encountered someone in such a horrible place in life, or someone just completely unstable and unaware of the consequences that follow if their actions. We all believe what the media tells us is crazy just so we won't havbe to experience it first hand.

full circle

It's actually really interesting that I'm in Doug's pre-production class this year and taking this class at the same time. The two are starting to take the same structure so that I can learn about structure myself. In Doug's class we are learning how to create a well rounded character. Appearance and mannerisms.

Then in this class we are learning the contructs and certain guidlines to adress when making a story. Boht obviously importnat ot one another and I think developing both is helping me understand the other, granted, I feel more comfortable developing a character, especially one based on assumptions I believe to be my alter ego. But building the story behind him will be like a self reflective process, and maybe that's what gives a story more credability, or atleast more umf.

depth.

Putting together a working story should be complex in structure maybe not in content but definitely in structure. Last class we made our own sequel to the Three Little Pigs, and we where made aware through a quick exercise that gave us first hand experience as two the many technicalities that come up when developing a story. The audience is more than one person, adn thus your story needs to be viewable from multiple perspectives. This is necessary so that through your story, everyone has an opportunity to be lead through the same path with trust and comfort in what brought them into your story in the first place. Something that is obviously desired in a more commercial setting but is what makes a good film as well.

Even if the story has a direct representation of you, you need to understand and feed everyone a seemingly personal a unique piece that is eventually leads to the same place which should be your punch line or your whole plot point. Again, those awful snuggies assured that even the most lame of lame people can seem normal under a snuggie. What is going to be worse is when poeple actually start wearing those in public. they are going to become the next Moomoo.

c'mon america, say no to snuggies.

The Awareness Of A Character

In my pre-production class, our assignment which is meant to be built on throughout the semester is to create a character that would be considered our own alter ego. I don't know what he is going to be like but i have physically designed him and given him some superficial characteristics. How involved am I actually going to get with this character? I thought about the Abraham Maslow Heirarchy and but I felt like I haven't developed him as a character with choices to categorize him. I don't know how in depth I'll go because I feel like if we go to deep, trying to encase everything that this character is will be tough for a short story line.

I know he's a goofy guy that is very musically inclined. I thought about him aesthetically more than anything, just as far as how he'd move around. I tried to understand his body language more and this deduct a listing of possible characteristics that will help develope this character.

I feel like I'm trying to name a pet, the name should reflect it's personality. I guess I had already decided on Fernando simply because that would have been my parents second choice for my name when I was born, so I guess maybe find out what the name Fernando means, and try to see how that reflects on my character.

I think that's what I'll do.