The IS, Embrace the Thing You Love to Hate

     So I totally realize my title today sucks but I seriously couldn't think of anything creative and fun to emphasize my sentiments of hate.....Yes I definitely just said hate because I can honestly say of all the film assignments I have hated doing the Independent Study the most. It is an unbelievably long and difficult process. First you must pick 4 films from two different countries, and yeah I know if I had done standard level I would of only had to pick 2 films from one different country but I was just being undeniably stupid. But anyways back to my explanation, so after that you must come up with an annotated bibliography and form your thesis of sorts you basically make an entire write up of this fake documentary that you're writing on your topic.

     Basically in its entirety the process is hell and unfortunately I still have not completed anything....I haven't even done film draft one of my IS. I'm in deep shit right now guys, real deep shit. Excuse my French but I seriously can't find the motivation for it, I've looked and its not there. One time I was totally gonna start and then I realized I didn't even know what it was supposed to look like. So yeah I repeat...deep shit.

    So yeah I hate film right now. I mean I love it but, I hate it...Oh wait! Now I thought of a good title!

And on the Third Deadline it Rose from the Dead

     You guys are probably wondering why I just made a Biblical allusion in my title, well the truth is I was just making a pun. You see our film was supposed to be due like a week ago but thanks to the wonderful Dr. Adams he has given us three extensions and we our finally done with our first copy of the film! Yesterday we put our soundtrack into the play, which was quite difficult if I may say so. See you readers are probably thinking, "wow a soundtrack no big deal, you can just go on iTunes and download something." WRONG, with this stupid project ALL MUSIC MUST BE ORIGINAL...That's right we have to record everything by ourselves. Luckily Apple has a wonderful program named Garage Band all I did was put in some strings, a little piano, and a loud ass organ and depressing music was made. We then added some vocals and there is now a depressing song for when Sarah, (Oh yeah I found out her name was Sarah) throws Penelope's ashes to the wind. It's perfectly sad, perfectly original, and a perfectly awesome finish to an annoyingly fun project.

     I know I just made it sound like this blog is over, which of course would be the end of life itself. How would you get through your day without the wonderful blog posts I have produced on a fairly irregular basis? Many of you would probably commit suicide, Like as the Waves make towards the pebbled shore....YOUR DEAD BODIES WOULD WASH UP TOWARDS THE PEBBLED SHORE....Just kidding, that might have been a little too morbid for my taste and that use of Shakespeare was a little annoying, like seriously I'm annoyed with myself for my use of figurative language. But anyways, no need to worry guys because this blog is not over, so don't jump into any abnormally large bodies of water and drown because that would be pointless. You know the whole point of this rant is sort of pointless, considering all of my readers would be dead because I literally never update this blog so to all of you dead readers out there, life is pointless and so was your suicide because this blog will continue...at least until the end of my senior year.

     So guys, how are your lives going, mine's pretty good, thanks for asking...Oh wait I have to go, farewell my dear readers, never fear, I will be back....Eventually.
     -Leah Q.

   

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to...Penelope

     We are almost done with the bulk of our filming, only one shot is left to complete! My acting career has started to develop...into amazingness! Actually not really I'm not that great but our film is about symbolism! Not all that stupid acting crap!...Just kidding the acting is actually pretty important....we'll just do what all those big action movies do....special effects out that wazoo. Nobody will notice that our actresses are sub par.
      So anyways now that you know how our filming is going let's talk business, or at least the actual shooting of the movie part. So we went to the beach last week to shoot that scene where Megan a.k.a. Friend #1...Actually I don't even think we named Megan...WAIT...I think her name was Sarah...actually no, that was someone else's movie....I guess we'll just refer to her as Friend #1...So where Friend #1 spreads Penelope's ashes after she dies. This was probably the most awkward scene to shoot ever. Megan put ashes from her dad's grill in a bag and these "ashes" were supposed to be Penelope. So we take this plastic bag out full of ashes and charcoal as all of these hot surfer guys walk by...They probably thought we were freaks...If I had walked by just then I would have thought we were freaks. I mean here's three girls in rolled up jeans and makeup laughing as they take out this bag of "ashes" and try to pour it into a fake urn. I think the most awkward part about the whole thing was it was so difficult to remove the big pieces of charcoal. So Megan/Friend #1 would try to throw Penelope into the wind and then a big chunk of Charcoal/Penelope would come flying out...Penelope was very chunky, even after she died.
     Another thing, THE OCEAN WAS FREEZING COLD, but it was okay because after like five minutes my legs went numb and I couldn't feel the cold anyways. But even through the wind and the sand and the ashes we got it done. And then we went to Angie's afterwards, supa delish. Seriously though, it was so freaking awkward when people would walk by...so freaking awkward.

A Movie Star is Born...Except Kind of Not Really

     Yesterday was our first real day of filming! We actually got something done, I do believe hell finally froze over, the Apocalypse has finally happened...well it's sort of obvious that I'm exaggerating since I'm writing this now and hopefully you're reading it so never mind what I just said. Just to reiterate...we actually filmed...people. It was great

     Anyways since our first day of filming we have actually filmed a second day as well and I might actually be getting the hang of this whole acting thing, who knows maybe I'm the next Melissa McCarthy or, Rebel Wilson hahahaha if I could be them that would be totally amazing but, probably not gonna happen.

     So along with filming we also planned the ending for our film, I would totally tell you what's gonna happen but, then what would be the point of this film? I know in previous posts I told you what was going to happen but I feel like I shouldn't ruin it this time and don't even think about reading those old posts because we changed the plot so much it would just be a waste of your time! Mwahahahaha...so yeah I'm really bored and I can't think of anything else to write, LQ signing off...

HOLY POOP...We Started Our Movie (Well Kind of...Not Really)

     So here I am again and I think this is my longest title yet, ladies and gentlemen for your viewing pleasure I give you, "Life Unexpected"...Oh wait, we haven't finished it yet...Ooops. So we finished out script and sort of kind of made a production schedule that we haven't started yet but our completed film is actually due in December, so I guess we still have a month to do it, we only have everything to do...NBD. So yeah obviously I'm sort of stressing about the fact that we haven't gotten anything done but will get it done eventually...or at the last possible second...#IBlife.

     Well there's basically nothing to talk about with our film so I'll just talk about when I helped my friend Emaleigh and Mara with their film...Something totally amazing happened...I WAS AN EXTRA! Yeah I know absolutely amazeballz but, anyways their film is actually pretty interesting. They have this girl who hangs with her friend they get in a car accident the girl forgets, now her other friend is talking about hanging out and the girl is all like "As long as I can bring Sarah" but, oh wait SARAH'S DEAD! There's the clincher everybody! So the girl forgot that Sarah died and then wherever she goes she sees her around watching her and eventually the ghost of Sarah convinces the girl to jump off this building so they can be together (platonically of course, no lesbianis experiences here...although there was an awkward moment when I totally thought they were supposed to be girlfriends because the girl called the friend sexy....let's just say I was rebuked rather quickly when I tried to bring it up) but anyways so yeah the dead ghost friend convinces the girl to jump off a building so they can be together in the "afterlife"...or heaven, totally open to interpretation guys. So yeah super exciting day of my life!

     Now this project is totally coming in hand, I ended up telling my parents I was going to do film stuff this weekend when in fact I was going to hang out with my friends...This could totally work to my advantage :D Yes, I am a horrible child but at least I'm a horrible child with no drinking or, drug problems...and I am not pregnant, so whenever I start to feel guilty for lying all the time I just think of how lucky my parents are that I am a normal, almost 18 year old who will be going to college in the fall. They totally could have gotten unlucky and had some druggie daughter, she would be like the reincarnation of Courtney Love but like 17 I think if I were a druggie my name would be Amy...So yeah good thing my mom and dad never had "Amy" they are lucky they got Leah...even though she lies all the time and is really lazy...This totally has nothing to do with our film so I'm just gonna stop typing now...BYE GUYS...BE SAFE...DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE...Leah Q. signing off...Until next time...

Oh Dear, We're in a Shizload of Trouble

     So this is the newest update on our film, "Life Unexpected"...I swear that name sounds like a sitcom from the 90's, maybe it was? I don't know I'll look it up later though but anyways I haven't written in forever....So update, we finished our script, finally! Bad news it was like three weeks late but luckily the three people in our group finally finished it so my 36% went all the way to a 93%...Yay!

     Basically our script is about a girl named Penelope, she has a terminal illness...Yes I know this sounds super familiar like some soap opera that you've seen...Oh wait! It sounds like that one film with Queen Latifah! I think it's called "Last Holiday" but that's totally different from ours. But anyways so Penelope doesn't see a point in life anymore and goes to the park and meets a guy (totally platonic of course!) and he basically helps her to not act like an emotionless robot. Before meeting him she was kind of like that one guy in that Albert Camus book, what was it ummm, oh his name was Meursault! But yeah Meursault was totally indifferent to everything he pretty much had no emotion except when it came to like sex, or going to work but, the dudes mother died and he only cared about how hot it was and if the coffee was good. The point of that little tidbit of information was Penelope had no emotions and now thanks to the bubbly personality of this new character she does! So then she goes to the beach and lays down on the sand and dies.

     Yes I know this sounds sort of random but keep in mind the film is only 5-6 minutes long and we're totally gonna shoot it way more dramatic then that. We'll do a closeup on her face and then the closes her eyes and a sheet is pulled over her face and in the beginning of the film she will start with a sheet over her head and then throw it off, so yeah cool technique! We're trying to make the whole sheet thing like one of those crime shows. The whole point of this scene is her acceptance of death. This is us trying to be all metaphorical and deep and I feel like were sort of achieving that. Our film is so depressing because it's way easier to portray sadness then something amazingly comedic, like "Mean Girls" and I'm all about easy!

     So this film seems like it's starting to form itself...wait until we actually film it, that's gonna be Amazeballz:D

We About to Get This Party Started...Maybe?

     So hello again my lovely readers, I'm sure these blog posts are a source of great joy for you, as they are for me...moi,  trying to sound like a sophisticated blog writer is exhausting, I'll just go back to my high  school lingo, so like anyways....I finally have real reporting to do on our film, the script is in production. Well actually it's in the process of being written by moi, I guess I can put in some French here in there to make this blog post sound more legit, but yeah it's actually being written so that's a definite plus!
     I have decided our main character is named...wait for it....drumroll....Penelope, yes I know it is an absolutely amazing name, partly sophisticated (I really like saying that word today) yet innocent. She is a cancer patient who has been pretty much sentenced to death. We're basically trying to focus on the way people interpret death, some act as if it isn't going to happen this character is represented by her mother, some don't want to face it, and some are just annoyingly depressed all the time, this would be Penelope. In the first scene she will be like a doll emotionless and sickly just sitting there while her mother bustles around her nagging, and waiting on her hand and foot.
     So that's the beginning I don't know what's gonna happen in the middle yet, but all I know is she's going to end on the beach with her acceptance of her death and the short future she has ahead of her.
That's all folks, see ya next time on the next episode of the "Young and the Filmless".