Sitting in my 3rd of 4th First class this quarter. What amuses me is the professor says "And the required textbook is..." and I can simultaniously order it on Amazon and have next day delivery for 4 bucks! Thanks Amazon Prime! Also it saves me about $40 off the school's bookstore price.
Anyways; I'm in "Image, Optics, and Cinematic Motion" right now. Intriguing concept for a class, the first time out of the box for it, and it's being taught by a professor with a love of foul language and a thickly accented Swede, which makes for an amusing duo, guaranteed to please, even if the over-technical lecture bores you to tears.
Two professors is a bit unconventional, but it was originally 2 DIFFERENT sections of the same class, and apparently, both professors just didn't want to have to teach it separately so now I sit in a room with 60 people that's meant for 35. Luckily I arrived early and snagged one of the few remaining table seats, which I will now make it a point to do for the rest of what is my last quarter.
Tonight I have my Topics in Directing class for the first time, which apparently will primarily focus on the Dogme 95 movement, which is interesting in theory and brilliant yet sometimes disturbing and off putting in practice. Basically the doctrine of the now foregone movement requires filmmakers to abandon all creativity and simply try and depict the truth of their actor's performance, in an effort to make the most "realistic" films possible. So basically half the class periods will be spent watching movies that visually are no better than my first fumblings with a video camera and yet performance wise are some of the best works I've seen.
My other classes - Film Philosophy (another 65+ person class solely based on philosophical analysis papers on some of the greatest films of all time :-) ) and Special Effects and Compositing (which is a fun (and much needed) crash course in Adobe After Effects) should both be not terribly time consuming outside of class and stimulate a solid interest and dedication from me as I am thoroughly looking foward to the next (and 9th to last) week of my College Education.
Here we go....
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