I've found over the last couple of years that my semester depends a lot
on how carefully I pick my instructors. This semester is pretty much a
wash. I have one instructor that I hold in pretty high esteem and a
handful of windbags who want me to "creatively" tell them what they
want to hear. It runs the range, though. I feel like the last couple of
years have taught me a lot. I come front-loaded with 20 years of video
and still photography experience that frequently tells me when someone
is teaching from the text or teaching from experience. Being
enthusiastic about what I'm doing has bought me a lot of breaks. For
the first two years I was shooting a lot of Super-8 and I had
instructors cleaning out storage rooms so they could scrounge up
20-year-old old Ektacolor sound cartridges for me to trade to people
shooting sound for fresh reversal stock. Instructors have given me all
kinds of old Super-8 equipment that's been sitting around since the
program migrated to Mini-DV. It kind of feels like summer camp or
something from time to time. I've tried to work with the same people a
lot and we've all become pretty tight-knit about our goofy little
movies. Now we're getting ready to shoot our first 16mm stuff and we're
all feeling like Welles or something. "16mm 'scope with Dolby A
optical? Why if we shoot Kodachrome that's practically a Technicolor
extravaganza, isn't it?" ;-)
On Nov 29, 2003, at 12:03 AM, Moose wrote:
I'm not a drop out. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention when I was
in college, supporting myself, sailing, dating, etc. took most of my
time, but enough to stay there. That was a no-brainer, with Vietnam
going full speed and the draft waiting for me. I certainly learned
more from the non-academic time than from the classes then and what
seems like an infinite amount more since. I have friends who have
acquired higher degrees later in life than you and value them. For
myself, the academic learning format is not something I would choose.
Moose
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