New friends, movies and final exams

[Dylflon]

June9/2004

I have this tendency to make friends with some people near the end of the semester. I always end up kicking myself for not talknig to these people earlier because they turn out to be awesome. I started talking to this girl Kim last week and we're fast becomming good friends. We sepnt 3 hours talking on the phone yesterday.

The amount of attention and recognition I've been getting for my films since awards night has been crazy. All sorts of people are congratulating me and asking me things about my movies and...it's nuts. I made these films months ago so they're old news to me. But everyone else is just getting on the bandwagon now. It's pretty neat and REALLY flattering. People I don't know will approach me in the hallway and say good job or congratulations.

"Hey, great job on those movies, Dylan."

"Uh...thanks...you."

Now everyone wants on board for my summer projects. Everyone is getting really excited about them. I even have some people offering to fund some of my projects...sorta like producers on a small scale.

Speaking of producers, the executive producer on the show my dad is working on (Dead Like Me, I think it's on ShowTime...check it out if you can. I read a couple of the scripts and it looks really good.) invited me on set to shadow him for a couple days so I can learn how the set works and how to handle a huge crew. It should prove to be a good experience.

I'm considering applying for a grant from Telefilm Canada so I can make one of my films. I need to rent a bus for a few days as almost all of the movie takes place on the bus. Telefilm Canada funds people who make all kinds of crappy movies. I figure I could make something decent so why shouldn't they give me money?

My friend and I are seriously considering starting up a production company. We don't have money so it's mainly jsut for show. But it'd be nice to have a company name to tag all of our movies with. We have a name picked out and everything. "Rinse Cycle Productions". I think it's pretty catchy. By the end of the summer I definently want to have a website up to put all of my films on. I'm trying to talk Dyne into doing web design for it.

I want to start going nuts on all my film projects when summer arrives. So I have to start writing the scripts. I'm just to dead recently to do any writing. But I only have 5 school days left, then exams, then it's all over. I've never wanted summer so bad. When I get any scripts done, I'll post them for you to have a look at. You can critique them if you wish or provide ideas.

On the subject of exams, I'm ripping my hair out trying to get prepared for my Math final. The Socials final should be a piece of cake though. I'm getting pretty stressed out right now.

I should probably be studying for my Canadian government test...so I'm going to go do that now.

I bid you adieu.