Wednesday, 05 October 2005

• Mentoring the film camp and life decisions.

  First of all, David made it back fine so thank you for your kind words and support. I feel lucky to associate with such a stand up guy.

  I never talked about the film camp. I mentored Divas Direct, a film camp for at-risk teen girls. The program is put together by the San Diego Women Film Foundation. It was challenging at times to deal with the girls' behavioral problems, but in the end they made me very proud. Each group produced a Public Service Announcement about issues important to their generation and background. We screened at the Museum of Photographic Arts. This was all in August and is the most productive thing I did all summer next to working on Creepshow 3.

  I have been milling over what to do with my film thang. I did finish principal photography on the Micromatic music video, but I won't be editing until December. That's because I am taking 17 units at school this semester! I've decided I really need to get some academic obligations over with before I continue with film. That's because the sooner I finish these few pesky classes, the sooner I can go to film school. It's only a matter of months now.

  Lastly, I would like to thank David Gonzalez, Jeff Hillman, Jennifer LeBron, Joseph "Israel" Perez, "Mattzog," and Luis Robledo for all their help on the video. I know it's going to come out great. Extra special thanks to Jen, who risked her life on the last day of shooting. We had to reshoot the roller coaster scene because the one at Belmont Park was far too shaky. We ended up going on a kiddie coaster in Tijuana. Wow, that was an interesting event. The ride operator would sometimes stop the train too late so that I would have to climb back two carts in order to get out, lest I step out and fall the ten feet below me to the ground. Poor Jen tried to shoot the last round for me, but she didn't understand that when I said the last turn was "hard" I meant HARD! So she literally flew out of the cart, much to our horror, but luckily Mattzog pulled her back in and everyone was "okay." Amusingly, the ride operator didn't seem to think that was a big deal and still made them ride around a second time. Guess he wanted us to get our money's worth.

  The security guard got annoyed by us after some time (even though the other guard said shooting was okay) and we were literally escorted out of the place. It was so cool. I love Mexico.

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