Tuesday, July 08, 2008
there's nothing you can do that can't be done
My goodness, what a busy summer I'm having. Thus far, I am/have been: a counselor-in-training, captain of a makeover team, co-director/choreographer of a musical, and a movie producer.

And the fun doesn't end here.

About a year and a half ago, I played Toccata & Fugue (by Bach) for a conservatory recital. It was there that some friends of mine planted in my head the idea of making a silent film with the aforementioned song as the theme. With that in mind, I went directly to my friend Andy, who happens to be a film major at UT, with this idea. He liked it as much as I did, but it was put on hold for quite some time for us to actually take it seriously. At around the same time the next year, I approached him again about making this silent film, and he agreed. That was in May of this year. Ever since then, we've been working steadily on getting everything ready. Scripting, casting, re-scripting, re-casting, location scouting, organizing, etc. Finally, it was time to make it happen. We had a script, a director (Andy), a producer (myself), four cast members, a location, a full crew (including a bona fide director of photography), and 12 hours to shoot our film. So yesterday, from 9 am to 9:30 pm, we did just that. We got all but one scene filmed (the reason being that we'll have to move to where our snake lives to film that scene), and I must say, it is going to be incredible! Our actors were wonderful and worked wonderfully together, and our crew was spectacular. So I'll be letting you know when it will premiere, as it gets closer to being finished.

A few people have asked me about this, so I thought I'd just clear the air: Yes, I know what the blog labels are, and I know that you're SUPPOSED to label them things like "scooters, vacation, fall" (that's what blogger says anyway) but in real life, when I label something, I usually don't put my name or what it is, I label it with a quote that either describes it in some way, or I just happen to have in my head at the time. So I do the same thing when I blog. It's basically the same with blog titles.

In other news, I read The Other Boleyn Girl (all 661 pages of it) and I was blown away. Philippa Gregory was a genius when she wrote this book. It was a work of art. Then I saw the movie, and I have to say that compared to the book, I was disappointed. I know that converting a book to a movie means taking out the less important elements, but in this movie, the entire plot changed quite dramatically. THE most important elements stayed almost as they had been, but how they got there was definitely not the same. There were also things that were added to the movie that occurred nowhere in the book. Also, in following a grand Hollywood tradition, they made no effort to make love play into the theme. It was ALL lust, ambition, and power that drove the movie. However, disregarding the book and taking the movie at face-value, it was very good. The cinematography was very intense and very beautiful. The costumes blew me away. And if you have not read the book (or if you forget about it for 2 hours) the storyline stood very well on its own.

That's all I have for now, my wrists are aching (they've been getting steadily worse this year, so my hand-strengthener has come back into play!)

I love you all very much!

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