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Papers are signed, money is allocated, dates are set, and I am ready. This has been about two years in the works, with the brief stint of me thinking that engineering was the right path removed. I found Full Sail while still in high school, Vess can attest to that, chose a different path for a stupid reason, and corrected my error by following what my heart told me was right. Some people are never lucky enough to get that feeling and work meaningless jobs through their entire life to pay off their cars and mortgages.

I begin my program on the 7th of July with the standard Registration and Orientation. This will last a few hours and I get to go back home. The next day I get my Film-Specific laptop(about $10,000 worth of hardware and software for $2,620; Thanks Apple!). The 9th of July I begin my classes and my career as a Filmmaker. No, to some of you that I know will ask, I will not be making porn. At this point I would like to set myself up to be a Writer/Director, Editor, or Producer, but I won’t decide for sure for a while. There is a lot of learning that I need to do before I can plan my exact career path. The ‘for sure’ plan is that I will be in the Hollywood Filmmaking arena. I will do Music Videos or Commercial shoots to pay the bills if needed, but I want to be onset for the real Hollywood action.

Let me take a second here to brag/explain this ‘Full Sail’ thing to you. Full Sail is an Entertainment Media college that has an excellent repertoire with the industries of Film, Music, Game Design, and Show Production and Touring. There are other majors, but those are the industries they fit into mainly.

The Film program is ranked in the top 5 in the country next to UCLA and NYU (the best, and for a heavy co$t too). The school runs like the industry, develops its program around the industry standards, and trains the students with the same programs and equipment that will be used after graduation. Classes run ~40 hours a week with both Lectures and Labs and a Bachelor of Science degree is completed in only 21 months. The graduation rate for 2003 to now in the film program… 88%(the national average is about 40%). The school is perfect. I’ve been on a tour of campus twice, and it just felt right. The students are all creative, passionate, goal-oriented people with the same passions to make movies, music, or games the absolute best that they can.

Back to the main topic:

Either I am now, or will be a Film Student. I haven’t quite decided when I want to take that title on. I’ve used it on occasion, but when the girls ask for money as they put their clothes on, it’s hard to explain that I actually am a film student, not a hardened industry professional with a one-liner that gets their clothes off. Just because I film it doesn’t mean I’m willing to jumpstart their career as a cheap slut — Okay, not really. That was a joke. No offense to aspiring cheap sluts/pornstars.

I am a film student, with aspirations to make it big, but the desire to only do the best that I can. I leave the final destination of my career to God or fate(pick one based on your own religious beliefs).

I have about three solid ideas for films I would like to make, with a couple more as skeletons that need to be fleshed. I don’t know if I’ll get to make any of them, but I will try my hardest. Getting a production team and financing will be the hard part, especially being a first-time filmmaker. Who knows, I may have to work in mediocre production crew positions before my name is out there enough. We shall see.

I’m rambling rather than discussing… But hey, you’re still reading it. Up, down. Zig, zag. Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy. Purple. Horseshoe. DurkaDurkaDurka.

My apologies, it’s late. Thanks for reading. I’ll write some more of these as my education kicks off.

–Robert