I Just Checked My Email....

AND I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Midterms

I'm sitting in my environmental science class right now. I'm so bored. I'm refreshing my email every fifteen seconds. I'm waiting to hear back about that job, I'm supposed to hear by tomorrow. I'm freaking out.

I don't usually get stressed out. It's just not how I deal with things, I'm usually really calm and positive about everything. Then I got to college. I had a few midterms three weeks ago and I had one today and two more later this week and next. For history and science I have two midterms, I've already taken the first and I got D's on both. D's! I never get D's. I get A's. I've been so stressed this week trying to study like crazy to do better this time around. I took my Film Aesthetics midterm today. That was easy. All I had to do was analyze a scene from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and talk about two aspects of film off of a list of eight things. It took me thirty minutes. I hope I did well. Now I have history tomorrow, which I'm really worried about.

I haven't slept in a week. I eat one meal a day. I don't exercise anymore. I snap at people when they're nice to me. I don't like to be stressed. I'm not a nice person when I'm stressed. My teacher just announced that he's moved out midterm from Tuesday to Thursday. That is really helpful. I have so much to do this weekend.

If I get the job, I have orientation on Saturday plus training every afternoon during the week. I have a film project to do. Location scouting on Friday night, filming on Saturday night, and editing on Sunday morning. The film is due Thursday and it's going to be amazing. Then Sunday, of course, is Halloween so I'm going to a party. The party happens to be over an hour away unfortunately, but it's going to be fun. Jeremy and I are going as Bonnie and Clyde. We look pretty cool.

So this film project I'm doing this weekend is going to be awesome! The assignment is that the film has to be a 2-3 minute pursuit. So my group thought doing a film noir style pursuit would be cool. It's all black and white and very classic film noir. It starts out with a kingpin who finds out his wife is cheating on him with one of his dealers. He sets up a drug drop with the dealer, but someone takes the drugs from right in front of the dealer. The dealer chases down the guy and ends up in a dark alley. Headlights shine on him and it turns out the dealer was set up. The kingpin shoots him drops the picture of the dealer and the kingpin's wife on the dead body and then drives away. Basically awesome.

Second Job Interview

I got an email today that says they want to have a second interview with me tomorrow! I'm really happy about it, because I really want the job, but I used my only nice outfit for the first interview! I have no idea what to wear!

New Videos

I uploaded some more of my projects to youtube and vimeo. You check them out here:

http://vimeo.com/user5012563
http://www.youtube.com/user/FamousFeetProduction?feature=mhum

Heres my most recent project for my Visual Storytelling class!


Moment of Decision from Zoe Loza on Vimeo.

Feminism

I read this really interesting article today on overthinkit.com about the way Christopher Nolan treats the femal supporting characters in his films. The author was having a hard time deciding if Nolan was being sexist or not  by killing off a female character in almost every one of his films in order to drive the main (male) character into action. The author states:

• Memento: A man with amnesia is obsessed with finding the killer of his beautiful wife.
• Insomnia: A detective plays a cat and mouse game with the killer of a beautiful young girl.
• The Prestige: A magician engages in a bitter rivalry with a former friend he blames for the death of his beautiful young wife.
• The Dark Knight: The lives of a masked vigilante and a district attorney are shattered when the woman they both love is killed.
• Inception: A dream thief struggles with the crushing guilt of his wife’s suicide.
• And here’s a bonus: Nolan’s first feature, Following, apparently features a beautiful dead girl as a final twist.

The one movie that doesn’t fit the pattern is Batman Begins. But of course, the love interest dies in the sequel. And there is a dead mom to tide us over.

I thought he brought up a really interesting point. Now, I wouldn't exactly call myself a feminist, I don't advocate for women's rights or anything like that, but I do believe that as a woman I deserve equal treatment (except in a case of like handy work or heavy lifting in which case I am more than happy to let a man step in). I've noticed that in movies when a man gives something life changing up to be with a woman, that's romantic, but when a woman gives something life changing up to be with a man, she's being "anti-feminist." Well, why can't she be romantic?

As for the article, I think that the reason women are so often killed off to drive the male character is because it's romantic and if it were the other way around it would be anti-feminist. Personally, I think that's really stupid, but that's how America and the film industry view life. So while most people say we've come so far in regards to the feminist movement, I disagree, I think we've just changed what it looks like.

Job Interview!

So today I had an interview for a job at this place called Bruxie. It's in old town Orange right across from the Chapman campus and they sell waffle sandwiches. I know, it sounds weird, but I'm hoping it works out and I get the job. The place hasn't been opened yet, they're rebuilding it right now, it used to be a burger place. I feel like the interview went well and I really hope I get the job because I really need one. They said to watch for a phone call this week about a second interview so I'm hoping that means they like me and I can stop my job search. I feel really good about this. :)

Public Enemies

Today, in one of my film classes my professor said that Public Enemies was filmed partially in 35mm film and partially in HD Digital. So I watched it tonight. I can totally tell the difference, it's crazy. I like the look of film better than digital, by the way, I think its more realistic.

Fixed It

I realized I could fix my misspelled title...so I did. :)

My First Blog Post!

I have never done this before, so please forgive me if I fail miserably. Today, I was sitting in my dorm room, bored out of my mind, trying to think of something to do. Usually when I'm bored I'll write a script or go out and mess around with a camera. Unfortunately for me, I have been bored so often lately I have run out of good ideas for screenplays and the camera I have available for my use is being used by someone else in my group. So again, I was sitting. Bored. Unable to think of something to do. I started reading my cousin's blog. I thought, "wow, that looks easy, I bet I could do it!" So I set out to start a blog. I have no idea what I'm going to talk about or why I titled it as I did, but, again, I was bored, you can't blame me for these things. 

As the title of my blog says, I got into Chapman...it's a college in Southern California and I'm studying Film...you may also notice that I spelled "into" incorrectly. My bad, in addition to being bored, I am also tired. I haven't slept very much since starting college. Mostly just because I don't have to. My classes don't start until 10:00 so I don't wake up until 9:40. It's nice, but that also means I stay up until about 2:00 or 3:00. I also don't eat very much. I made the mistake of of scheduling all my classes around lunch time and I don't wake up early enough for breakfast most days, so I tend to eat snacks until 6:00 when I go to get dinner. It's kind of stupid, but whatever! 

One of my roommates just came in the room. Her Halloween costume just got here. She putting it on right now to show me. I still need a costume. I'm going to a party that night near Calabasas, which is over an hour away, but it should be fun. She's coming out now, she's wearing a slip with Freud on it...she's a Freudian Slip. I'm not gonna lie, that's pretty clever.

I think I'm going to start studying now, I have midterms and such.