So, Sony claimed to be hacked and the victim of many leaks and cyber threats. The FBI takes a look into this and blames N. Korea for ther hack. Why? Apparently the threats revolved around the movie "The Interview" about an assassination of he N.Korean president Kim Jong Un, and they weren't happy. So, pull they pull the movie. Oh the people of USA aren't so happy. Free speech is threatened. Pres. Obama says Sony made a mistake. Days later,Sony says it will release the film in limited cities after all. Victory for free speech and all USA...a movie that was panned by critics is released.
Sound familiar? It should...
Greatest marketing gimmick around - bait and switch. Coke tried New Coke, got so many complaints they brought back Classic Coke = increased sales. Hostess goes bankrupt, no Twinkies. All of a sudden, new bakery returns Hostess Twinkies back = skyrocketing sales.
Sony has learned from previous corporate examples.
Guess what will be the number one movie now, people!!!
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
An April Day to Remember Aboard the Battleship USS Iowa (BB 61)
For this article, I decided I'd just share my first actual film project for my Production II class. This is the final edited version. It is a little under 6 minutes. He assigned the class a 5 min final production, but I had a tough topic to cover and at least 3 hours of video to edit.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Regrets......
They say to live life with no regrets. Well, what do you do when you discover a huge regret?? I seemed to be looking for an answer to that.
See, I was walking out of my Music of the Beatles class, had the song, "Because" on my mind (more like an ear worm). I looked over at the big auditorium and the El Camino College sign on it. Suddenly, I realized that school is coming to an end and I had done something I think my parents wanted me to do way back in my high school days. I basically found the way to pay for my college classes and did what I wanted to do. I was proud of that face. But then I realized I am 59 and don't have all those many years ahead of me...that I know of. Not that I am sick and dying with only so much time to live. Just that I'm old. Who knows what's going to happen in the next few minutes, days, months, years ahead?? It's like I found ME but is it going to be soon enough in my lifetime? I don't necessarily want to be on the A-List of actors, but would be happy to be working and on peoples minds for parts. Hollywood today is not like the drama driven Hollywood of the Golden Age. It's all action heroes and SPFX. I'm old and fat. I wish I had done this sooner.
I wish I'd done this sooner.
I was at LACMA yesterday to see an old movie "Journey into Fear" with Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles. It wasn't all THAT good, but the drama was there. The techniques of the camera added to the build the tension of the story. Afterwards, I stopped in the LACMA bookstore and looked around. There was a sign which they had on a coaster...."Artistic Expression = I could have done that easily + Why didn't you?"!!
Guess that's my motivation to keep on keeping on!!
See, I was walking out of my Music of the Beatles class, had the song, "Because" on my mind (more like an ear worm). I looked over at the big auditorium and the El Camino College sign on it. Suddenly, I realized that school is coming to an end and I had done something I think my parents wanted me to do way back in my high school days. I basically found the way to pay for my college classes and did what I wanted to do. I was proud of that face. But then I realized I am 59 and don't have all those many years ahead of me...that I know of. Not that I am sick and dying with only so much time to live. Just that I'm old. Who knows what's going to happen in the next few minutes, days, months, years ahead?? It's like I found ME but is it going to be soon enough in my lifetime? I don't necessarily want to be on the A-List of actors, but would be happy to be working and on peoples minds for parts. Hollywood today is not like the drama driven Hollywood of the Golden Age. It's all action heroes and SPFX. I'm old and fat. I wish I had done this sooner.
I wish I'd done this sooner.
I was at LACMA yesterday to see an old movie "Journey into Fear" with Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles. It wasn't all THAT good, but the drama was there. The techniques of the camera added to the build the tension of the story. Afterwards, I stopped in the LACMA bookstore and looked around. There was a sign which they had on a coaster...."Artistic Expression = I could have done that easily + Why didn't you?"!!
Guess that's my motivation to keep on keeping on!!
Monday, December 30, 2013
Why I hate the criticisms of JJ Abrams "Star Trek" and "Star Trek Into Darkness"
Just
watched the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode called "The
Drumhead." It is so appropriate to remind us all that "there will
always be those who condemn in the name of righteousness." That we
should always be on the lookout for those people. Yes, that's what Star
Trek is all about, intelligent and thought provoking stories. You can
do that on television. But when it comes to movies, they
have to be made to draw people into the theater away from everything
else life has to offer...all the other daily distractions that we have.
When one spends over several million dollars to make a movie, one hopes
to make money back. People are criticize JJ Abrams for his two Star
Trek movies for a) the way he reimagined the Star Trek universe, b)
rewriting the movie "The Wrath of Khan." But for the medium the stories
were made in, MOTION PICTURE or MOVIES, they basically did what MOVIES
are made for nowadays...they provided a big return on an investment.
Now, that being said, you can still take it or leave it. But there are
quite a few of the TV episodes that are just as bad. Take the third
season of the original Star Trek series. I would venture to say that a
majority of those were junk stories, but they are still considered canon
to the storyline. A lot of folks also dismiss the animated series.
Whatever you think of any incarnation of Star Trek, it is basically just
a form of story telling disguised as science fiction.
With JJ out of the picture now, it's up to whomever replaces him. I personally think that if any of my "film-making" friends think they can do better AND get the return on the investment that JJ did, they should make a Star Trek movie on their own! I would gladly participate as an actor, or maybe something else now that I've actually taken some film making courses myself!!
Don't get me wrong. I am still and always will be a Trekkie with costumes and all.
I love each of the series incarnations, with the exception of "Star Trek: Enterprise." And I loved most of the movies (with the exception of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"), But I get tired of the over criticizing of late by fans around the world. It's fun to be a part of the fandom, but it's not like the stories they tell REALLY HAPPENED. It's a vicarious experience, but all film and tv tell stories that we watch, we live it vicariously. Let's not take these too seriously!!!
Thank you for reading my blog. Please feel free to leave a comment or ask a question!
With JJ out of the picture now, it's up to whomever replaces him. I personally think that if any of my "film-making" friends think they can do better AND get the return on the investment that JJ did, they should make a Star Trek movie on their own! I would gladly participate as an actor, or maybe something else now that I've actually taken some film making courses myself!!
Don't get me wrong. I am still and always will be a Trekkie with costumes and all.
I love each of the series incarnations, with the exception of "Star Trek: Enterprise." And I loved most of the movies (with the exception of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"), But I get tired of the over criticizing of late by fans around the world. It's fun to be a part of the fandom, but it's not like the stories they tell REALLY HAPPENED. It's a vicarious experience, but all film and tv tell stories that we watch, we live it vicariously. Let's not take these too seriously!!!
Thank you for reading my blog. Please feel free to leave a comment or ask a question!
Saturday, December 21, 2013
The Semester Grades Are In!
Well, I looked at my grades today and I got 2 A's and 2 B's. I don't know why but I have so many mixed emotions about the whole year, truthfully. So, let me see if I can try to explain and maybe work this out.
First, all my life, with the exception of Math classes, I've had to struggle for even a C! It just seemed that no matter how hard I studied, that's what I got. And, I admit, I quit trying to do any better after some point in my life. I also felt like I was always being picked on or bullied. But, in reality, even at every new school I went to (I went to 3 grade schools, 1 middle school and 2 high schools by graduation) I always seemed to feel like that awkward new kid in school trying to meet and make new friends. Maybe that was part of the feeling of being picked on and/or bullied. Maybe it was because they knew (as I have found out from some high school friends lately on Facebook) that I was gay long before I did. I really don't know. The fact was, I was always struggling with my grades.
Second, my parents, as well intentioned as they were, had no idea of the harm they caused with their admonishments of; "Why can't you be more like your (older) brother?" and "You can't go into acting!!! You have to be practical and study business." I won't go into details of the severity of the dysfunction in the family, but couple that with the above and I can see that I became more of a people pleaser, or would do anything to please my parents so as not to rock the boat any further. It wasn't until after their deaths and I understood the impact of the family dysfunction that I started to do things to please ME more than anybody else.
Third, a lot of things I attempted in my life I looked for what "comes naturally" to others, to come to me with little to no effort. As with playing a musical instrument, musicians made it seem so natural. I failed to consider the years of practice they went through to become so amazingly good. I took to singing pretty well, and was always in the school choirs...but again, that fell under the "entertainment" field and was forbidden by the family! Mom, wanted me to be the next Artie Shaw (a Big Band era clarinet player), which didn't really interest me, but I wanted to please her so I tried for a few years and lost interest in attending band practices after a while.
College I went into the pre-Business classes and did alright to start with Basic Algebra. But the pre-business classes themselves were nearly disastrous with a D in Basic Economics and Accounting I. So, I switched majors because in a Radio & TV in Modern Society class which I took for a Humanities credit I got an easy A without trying! Dad had instilled in me the idea of just getting a degree and you'll "get a good job" so much that he was okay with me switching to Speech & Dramatic Arts: Radio, TV and Film program, so long as I graduated. I still had difficulties with Spanish but managed to get two C's in I and II and a D in Spanish Reading (in English) in which we read "Don Quixote." So, I graduate with a 2.75 average, never making the Dean's list, even though all my Radio, TV & Film classes I got A's & B's in. The one thing I didn't know about was doing an internship. Nobody at college suggested it to me. I hadn't heard a thing about it until I tried getting a job in radio or tv, "you got a great degree, where is your experience? Where did you intern?" I heard from too many people. I just wanted a paying job so I could get out of the house!!! Well, after 6 years of trying various jobs, including a DJ at a country & western radio station (and I have to mention I knew squat about the music then) where I also had to earn a commission on selling air time (in three months with my $450/month salary, I made a whooping $7 commission), and my dad talking retirement, I joined the US Navy, became a Navy Journalist and survived 11 years at their minimal level of physical fitness, before being medically retired with 100% disability. That was probably my saving grace as I thought since I had a degree, I wouldn't need to go back to college so I opted out of the G.I. Bill for education benefits. All that happened shortly after my parents had died, and I wasn't really prepared to leave the service. That's when I went out on an audition for a community theater play, did well in my first role, and then decided that I needed to live my life for me.
Anyway, here we are at the end of 2013. First semester, 3 A's and a B and on the Dean's list. This last semester, 2 A's and 2 B's. I know I am to blame for the B's as in both cases, I either didn't hand in homework or was late with it. And I probably didn't try as hard as I could have either. I fully expected one of the A's but in the other class....I didn't know quite what to expect. That professor I have issues with as the prof was all over the board during the lectures. They would start on a topic, change it mid-topic two or three times until I eventually lost track of what was actually being discussed in class. I asked questions, but wasn't really clear still. It became so hard to take notes in the class that I eventually gave up on it. I never even finished reading the text for the class. And yet, I get an A without even trying. So, that's one reason I'm confused.
As I only got C's most of my life and never received any kind of recognition for that, even when I was not trying, getting the recognition for A's and B's when I feel like I was hardly trying seems ... well, odd in some way. I have nothing to compare it to. Is this a good thing? Did other students who made the Dean's list feel like they hardly tried? I had always imagined they had worked real hard to get the grades and that kind of recognition. And I have no family to speak of to give me a pat on the back for that kind of accomplishment. My brother is all that's left and we hardly communicate about life anyway! I don't know how to accept this.
And if you say that I've found my calling, somehow, I feel a regret over the past 30 years. Had I followed this plan 30 years ago, my life would be so different. I might actually have something for my name instead of living with a friend that cares that I have a roof over my head and living paycheck to paycheck! How do I live with that feeling?
I'm 58, so close to the so-called "retirement age" and I have a chronic life challenge condition at the present. Sure it's manageable, but other than my healthcare through the VA and my insurance I pay extra for, I can go to a doctor of MY choosing. I still don't have dental or vision covered by any insurance. Can I make a retirement plan at this late stage in my life??? Especially in the film biz?? I suppose only time will tell in that regard. But then I get back to feeling regretful that I did not make these discoveries, or at the very least, pay better attention to the signs 26-30 years ago at high school graduation.
I don't know, I suppose none of us has the answers to any of life's questions as they come up and that's where faith and trust comes into play. As a child we trust our parents to help us grow up, but we all have to learn to trust ourselves at some point. I guess I'm still learning that concept even at my advanced age.
The journey of a lifetime begins with a single step. So, here goes......
Thank you for reading this. Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions or ask me anything!!!
First, all my life, with the exception of Math classes, I've had to struggle for even a C! It just seemed that no matter how hard I studied, that's what I got. And, I admit, I quit trying to do any better after some point in my life. I also felt like I was always being picked on or bullied. But, in reality, even at every new school I went to (I went to 3 grade schools, 1 middle school and 2 high schools by graduation) I always seemed to feel like that awkward new kid in school trying to meet and make new friends. Maybe that was part of the feeling of being picked on and/or bullied. Maybe it was because they knew (as I have found out from some high school friends lately on Facebook) that I was gay long before I did. I really don't know. The fact was, I was always struggling with my grades.
Second, my parents, as well intentioned as they were, had no idea of the harm they caused with their admonishments of; "Why can't you be more like your (older) brother?" and "You can't go into acting!!! You have to be practical and study business." I won't go into details of the severity of the dysfunction in the family, but couple that with the above and I can see that I became more of a people pleaser, or would do anything to please my parents so as not to rock the boat any further. It wasn't until after their deaths and I understood the impact of the family dysfunction that I started to do things to please ME more than anybody else.
Third, a lot of things I attempted in my life I looked for what "comes naturally" to others, to come to me with little to no effort. As with playing a musical instrument, musicians made it seem so natural. I failed to consider the years of practice they went through to become so amazingly good. I took to singing pretty well, and was always in the school choirs...but again, that fell under the "entertainment" field and was forbidden by the family! Mom, wanted me to be the next Artie Shaw (a Big Band era clarinet player), which didn't really interest me, but I wanted to please her so I tried for a few years and lost interest in attending band practices after a while.
College I went into the pre-Business classes and did alright to start with Basic Algebra. But the pre-business classes themselves were nearly disastrous with a D in Basic Economics and Accounting I. So, I switched majors because in a Radio & TV in Modern Society class which I took for a Humanities credit I got an easy A without trying! Dad had instilled in me the idea of just getting a degree and you'll "get a good job" so much that he was okay with me switching to Speech & Dramatic Arts: Radio, TV and Film program, so long as I graduated. I still had difficulties with Spanish but managed to get two C's in I and II and a D in Spanish Reading (in English) in which we read "Don Quixote." So, I graduate with a 2.75 average, never making the Dean's list, even though all my Radio, TV & Film classes I got A's & B's in. The one thing I didn't know about was doing an internship. Nobody at college suggested it to me. I hadn't heard a thing about it until I tried getting a job in radio or tv, "you got a great degree, where is your experience? Where did you intern?" I heard from too many people. I just wanted a paying job so I could get out of the house!!! Well, after 6 years of trying various jobs, including a DJ at a country & western radio station (and I have to mention I knew squat about the music then) where I also had to earn a commission on selling air time (in three months with my $450/month salary, I made a whooping $7 commission), and my dad talking retirement, I joined the US Navy, became a Navy Journalist and survived 11 years at their minimal level of physical fitness, before being medically retired with 100% disability. That was probably my saving grace as I thought since I had a degree, I wouldn't need to go back to college so I opted out of the G.I. Bill for education benefits. All that happened shortly after my parents had died, and I wasn't really prepared to leave the service. That's when I went out on an audition for a community theater play, did well in my first role, and then decided that I needed to live my life for me.
Anyway, here we are at the end of 2013. First semester, 3 A's and a B and on the Dean's list. This last semester, 2 A's and 2 B's. I know I am to blame for the B's as in both cases, I either didn't hand in homework or was late with it. And I probably didn't try as hard as I could have either. I fully expected one of the A's but in the other class....I didn't know quite what to expect. That professor I have issues with as the prof was all over the board during the lectures. They would start on a topic, change it mid-topic two or three times until I eventually lost track of what was actually being discussed in class. I asked questions, but wasn't really clear still. It became so hard to take notes in the class that I eventually gave up on it. I never even finished reading the text for the class. And yet, I get an A without even trying. So, that's one reason I'm confused.
As I only got C's most of my life and never received any kind of recognition for that, even when I was not trying, getting the recognition for A's and B's when I feel like I was hardly trying seems ... well, odd in some way. I have nothing to compare it to. Is this a good thing? Did other students who made the Dean's list feel like they hardly tried? I had always imagined they had worked real hard to get the grades and that kind of recognition. And I have no family to speak of to give me a pat on the back for that kind of accomplishment. My brother is all that's left and we hardly communicate about life anyway! I don't know how to accept this.
And if you say that I've found my calling, somehow, I feel a regret over the past 30 years. Had I followed this plan 30 years ago, my life would be so different. I might actually have something for my name instead of living with a friend that cares that I have a roof over my head and living paycheck to paycheck! How do I live with that feeling?
I'm 58, so close to the so-called "retirement age" and I have a chronic life challenge condition at the present. Sure it's manageable, but other than my healthcare through the VA and my insurance I pay extra for, I can go to a doctor of MY choosing. I still don't have dental or vision covered by any insurance. Can I make a retirement plan at this late stage in my life??? Especially in the film biz?? I suppose only time will tell in that regard. But then I get back to feeling regretful that I did not make these discoveries, or at the very least, pay better attention to the signs 26-30 years ago at high school graduation.
I don't know, I suppose none of us has the answers to any of life's questions as they come up and that's where faith and trust comes into play. As a child we trust our parents to help us grow up, but we all have to learn to trust ourselves at some point. I guess I'm still learning that concept even at my advanced age.
The journey of a lifetime begins with a single step. So, here goes......
Thank you for reading this. Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions or ask me anything!!!
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
"The Best Man" and "The Best Man Holiday"...and USA Today's 'race-themed movie' tweet!
Today in class, we had an open discussion on the movie "The Best Man Holiday." I had not seen it before class, but the discussion prompted me to go back to my DVD collection to watch "The Best Man" and then go see "The Best Man Holiday."
Now that I've seen "The Best Man Holiday" I can see what the fuss is with USA Today. To the white man, it may be seen as a race movie as it is an all black cast. However wrong that view is, that is what that one writer at USA Today saw. What he FAILED to see was the concepts in the movie are relevant to ALL of us!! It just happened that this movie had a black cast instead of a white cast. It could just as easily been all Latino or French or even a Gay cast such as "Noah's Arc: Jumbing the Broom." Oh, wait, that was a black cast as well, so is that one a race-themed movie or a gay-themed movie?
My one question is this; Why in the 21st Century are we STILL hung up on the non-issue of race? Why is this still a problem with certain people? It is really unfortunate that the idea of "other-ness" separates a lot of folks from learning about the people that actually populate this world!
I don't really know what kind of things I expected in "The Best Man Holiday." My feeling at the end of the first movie was that everybody but the pimp-daddy actually became a better person by the end of the movie so maybe I thought he'd grow up a bit by this movie. (I suppose at this point I will have to warn you: SPOILER ALERT!!! Don't read any further if you want to be surprised). I surely did not expect the story to end the way it did in this latest version, no to cover the topic of death so well. Death is hard for us all to talk about but even more so during the holidays. My maternal grandmaother passed Nov 30, 1968, my mother on Dec 1, 1989 and my dad on Feb 3, 1990 (2 days before his 68th birthday) and I still feel the holiday blues at this time of year. The themes presented in "The Best Man Holiday" are common to all of us in the human race. The movies starting Kevin Hart that were seen in trailers before "TBMH" might be a race themed movie. But even then, I am uncomfortable saying that.
People talked about "the black experience" in class but what really is "the black experience"? I have white skin, he has dark skin and we both have an experience of life. Is it that much different because a person is black? Only as far as racist treatment of the individual, perhaps. But we all dream of a better life, family, the future, goals, aspirations, love, and relationships with other people whether they are black, white, yellow or red.... gay, straight, bi or transgendered. That's all the same, but the experience has to do with how people are relating to oneself. Now, how people relate to me is not necessarily the same as how they would treat a person with darker skin. But really, that is the ONLY difference...the skin color.
I don't care if you are black, white, gay, straight, etc. If you treat me with any kind of respect, you have my respect in return. And at the same time, I will do my best to show YOU respect regardless of color, sexual preference, etc.
And in the end, such as shown in "The Best Man Holiday," life goes on and it's our friendships and our loved ones that mean the most to us. And it's how we are remembered by them after we've gone that gives us immortality.
Thank you for reading this, please feel free to leave a comment or ask me a question.
Now that I've seen "The Best Man Holiday" I can see what the fuss is with USA Today. To the white man, it may be seen as a race movie as it is an all black cast. However wrong that view is, that is what that one writer at USA Today saw. What he FAILED to see was the concepts in the movie are relevant to ALL of us!! It just happened that this movie had a black cast instead of a white cast. It could just as easily been all Latino or French or even a Gay cast such as "Noah's Arc: Jumbing the Broom." Oh, wait, that was a black cast as well, so is that one a race-themed movie or a gay-themed movie?
My one question is this; Why in the 21st Century are we STILL hung up on the non-issue of race? Why is this still a problem with certain people? It is really unfortunate that the idea of "other-ness" separates a lot of folks from learning about the people that actually populate this world!
I don't really know what kind of things I expected in "The Best Man Holiday." My feeling at the end of the first movie was that everybody but the pimp-daddy actually became a better person by the end of the movie so maybe I thought he'd grow up a bit by this movie. (I suppose at this point I will have to warn you: SPOILER ALERT!!! Don't read any further if you want to be surprised). I surely did not expect the story to end the way it did in this latest version, no to cover the topic of death so well. Death is hard for us all to talk about but even more so during the holidays. My maternal grandmaother passed Nov 30, 1968, my mother on Dec 1, 1989 and my dad on Feb 3, 1990 (2 days before his 68th birthday) and I still feel the holiday blues at this time of year. The themes presented in "The Best Man Holiday" are common to all of us in the human race. The movies starting Kevin Hart that were seen in trailers before "TBMH" might be a race themed movie. But even then, I am uncomfortable saying that.
People talked about "the black experience" in class but what really is "the black experience"? I have white skin, he has dark skin and we both have an experience of life. Is it that much different because a person is black? Only as far as racist treatment of the individual, perhaps. But we all dream of a better life, family, the future, goals, aspirations, love, and relationships with other people whether they are black, white, yellow or red.... gay, straight, bi or transgendered. That's all the same, but the experience has to do with how people are relating to oneself. Now, how people relate to me is not necessarily the same as how they would treat a person with darker skin. But really, that is the ONLY difference...the skin color.
I don't care if you are black, white, gay, straight, etc. If you treat me with any kind of respect, you have my respect in return. And at the same time, I will do my best to show YOU respect regardless of color, sexual preference, etc.
And in the end, such as shown in "The Best Man Holiday," life goes on and it's our friendships and our loved ones that mean the most to us. And it's how we are remembered by them after we've gone that gives us immortality.
Thank you for reading this, please feel free to leave a comment or ask me a question.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Great News!!!
So, I felt inspired lately. As you know, I am a Navy Veteran and I served on the USS Iowa. Well, these classes inspired me toward the idea of actually making a documentary on the USS Iowa and the veterans who served aboard her. So, I mentioned it to my former CO, Gerry Gneckow, who then told me that Mark Mockett was already working on one, and gave me his contact information as well as passing my info to him. I then contacted Mark and we met 3 weeks ago. It was a successful meeting and he brought me aboard his project, though I was not even sure what my title would be or even if I would have one at this point. Today, I met with Mark again and three of his crew for lunch. A wonderful meeting and I discovered that I would be a Production Assistant as well as a liaison with the Pacific Battleship Center and the USS Iowa Veterans Association. I'm excited for this opportunity to actually work on a film and apply what I've been learning about film production from my recent classes. I will keep you informed.
On a side note, I noticed that Mark had already worked out the budget for the film. The form he showed the crew was pretty much like the form that Prof. Dowell handed out in class last week when we discussed making budgets. I was astonished. So, I asked if I could possibly have a copy of the budget just as a reference giving the above explanation as a reason. So, now I have an actually movie budget for my class notes.
On the down side, this past weekend, I apparently downloaded a "horrific maleware" that just destroyed ALL the files on my computer. Guess what news I saw after three days of trying to get it OFF my laptop??
http://www.today.com/money/nasty-new-malware-locks-your-files-forever-unless-you-pay-8C11511655
Gee, no kidding. Well, thanks. Now that my homework on a proposed budget is ALREADY late. Now that I had ALL the information for it in a file on my laptop BEFORE it got infected. Oh well. Look, all this tells me is that I REALLY need to invest in a separate hard drive to back up my files or buy some more cloud space!! Never too old to learn.
Thank you and please feel free to leave a comment or questions.
On a side note, I noticed that Mark had already worked out the budget for the film. The form he showed the crew was pretty much like the form that Prof. Dowell handed out in class last week when we discussed making budgets. I was astonished. So, I asked if I could possibly have a copy of the budget just as a reference giving the above explanation as a reason. So, now I have an actually movie budget for my class notes.
On the down side, this past weekend, I apparently downloaded a "horrific maleware" that just destroyed ALL the files on my computer. Guess what news I saw after three days of trying to get it OFF my laptop??
http://www.today.com/money/nasty-new-malware-locks-your-files-forever-unless-you-pay-8C11511655
Gee, no kidding. Well, thanks. Now that my homework on a proposed budget is ALREADY late. Now that I had ALL the information for it in a file on my laptop BEFORE it got infected. Oh well. Look, all this tells me is that I REALLY need to invest in a separate hard drive to back up my files or buy some more cloud space!! Never too old to learn.
Thank you and please feel free to leave a comment or questions.
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