This could be the beginning

If I was told earlier today that after seeing Bridesmaids tonight that I would come across a film shoot at the big fountain in the mall, I wouldn’t believe it. Turns out, it did. And it was awesome.

While my friend was gushing about how hot the actor was, I was overjoyed I was here watching a legit film crew filming something. We asked one of the mall cops what was going on, and he said that Terrell Suggs from the Baltimore Ravens was the producer and/or the director for this independent film, and that the production company was a smaller company. So this wasn’t a major motion picture situation, but it was still a pretty big deal.

I didn’t think this could get any cooler until I saw that the clapper guy (the person who claps this) was a guy I knew from my video productions class last year. I guess you could say that I was flabbergasted. I knew that he had dropped the class after the first semester because he was getting film jobs that were going to keep him busy, but I had no idea that I was see him again, much less like this! It was just crazy.

After the shoot was done, I was debating whether or not to go up to him and say hi because he looked busy, but he finally went over to his station looking less busy so I took the opportunity to say hi. We exchanged numbers and he said that he’d let me know if anything I could help out with comes up. Oh my God, I hope he really does hook me up with a job or even an internship. I don’t care as long as I get experience. This is what I’ve been waiting for!

All this makes me think about what wouldn’t have happened if I ended up not going to the movies tonight and how my future now has been altered by what has happened. This reminds me things really do happen for a reason.

And to end this post off, I present another crappy cell phone picture my friend took against the crew’s “no pictures/video” policy:

That blinding light is what caught my attention after leaving the theater.It was incredibly bright. haha

What a day

After school I had to go film a scene out of Hamlet for my final project for my film class and my project for English.  I pretty much killed two birds with one stone with this. Good thing too; it would have taken way too long to film two short films today.

It was kind of chaotic though. The first problem we faced was the wind. It’s not good to film when it’s windy because it distorts the sound. The second problem was where we were originally going to film didn’t end up working out so we had to go somewhere else which actually ended up working out better anyway.

Whenever I’m doubting what I want to do for a career (which is do some sort of filming and/or editing) I remember why I want to do that on days like these. Even though it’s a struggle sometimes, it’s still fun to do. (: