Yeah totally, it's just an (ex-) Pixar scale type of thing. (I vote we change the Pixar scale to the Starkid scale btw,since we can't really use Pixar scale any more). Although Alaska pretty much destroyed me for a little while when I finished it.

And I will definitely do that, It'll probably take a bit to get there, but I will do that.

EDIT:

@Dudeman: I read Catcher in The Rye a while back, it wasn't...horrible, but I didn't really enjoy it as a novel. It really just felt like an extended character study that got way out of hand. When I finished it was just kinda like, okay...well...moving on with my life then.

I got these for Christmas (Hobbit was an actual gift, HP was an amalgamation of gift cards and cash, but I digress), so they've been occupying most of my reading time. I've also been reading John Green's, An Abundance of Katherines

Yeah, they are even more awesome than you think.

And when it comes to technical stuff I agree, 180 rules and types of shots, 3 act structure etc etc, But when film making courses are actually being taught in a way that are telling it's students NOT to think about the movie they are making in any real deep or meaningful way before hand, and that the only way to "properly" run a shoot is to just point the camera wildly at everything in the room and hope it works out in the editing room, something is very wrong I think.

And people wonder why the craft of filmmaking is going down the tubes.

I'm not in the LA area, but if you need any work farmed out, I'm here. I think you have a decent idea of my skills.

I also just got a nice new mic if you need narration type stuff and think my voice would work.

It's so bizarre though, coming relatively fresh off the film school wagon, because it's so completely the opposite of what you get taught. In school it's always COVER EVERY FUCKING THING IN THAT ROOM. I actually had a teacher tell me once that "If there's a clock in the room, shoot it, cause you never fucking know."

And I actually went into shooting Lily In The Wind with a very similar mindset to what Sam is talking about, I knew the shots I wanted, I knew exactly what I wanted it to look like. But we had to shoot coverage for everything (Actually part of my grade for the shoot. What a joke), so I wound up spending 90 percent of the day doing that, instead of what I actually wanted to do, and our day was already tight enough as it was.

That's the weird thing about going through a course like that I guess, I'm still not really sure what's BS or not, and this concept in particular has always irked me. It's nice to hear some actual pro's input.

Minecraft. Chinese food. Minecraft. More Chinese food. Watch fireworks out window. Minecraft. Watch clock click over to 2013. Sleep. Work. Home. More chinese food. Minecraft.

And that brings us to the present.

Pretty much the status quo.

All of this.

He might not have managed to finish her off, but one cat I had growing up damn near did his best to shred my sisters legs every time he got the chance.

I liked him.

Fine, yes. It's "good-good".

Copied over from the chat...

I am so flipping happy Tarantino exsists. I haven't been that pumped walking out of a theater to have just spent 3 hours watching a thing in a long time.

It was just good, like legitimate, no-strings-attached GOOD. And that is a rare thing lately.

Easy my pick for best movie I've seen this year*.

*Keeping in mind I have yet to see Le Mis, so that has the possibility to skew things pretty heavily.

Ugh, I preferred getting them all at once and waiting. It's pointless getting like 4 episodes then waiting 6 months.

Saniss: That sounds awesome dude!

And merry Christmas from Red Deer!