Back in either January or February I became attached to an independent feature film entitled “Into the Forest” as an office production assistant. My initial responsibilities were to add friends to the film’s MySpace page. That was about it. Once actual production kicked up, I was spending twelve hours on set, busting my ass for this legit project that was being put on by Full Sail students and a few faculty members. Apparently my hard work was noticed because I was offered two different promotions. One was as a Production Secretary and the other was the 2nd 2nd Assistant Director. I chose Production Secretary because it will offer me the opportunity to learn about becoming a Producer later on in my career. This project is still ongoing, and will continue to force me into ~4 hour sleep sessions a day.

I’m currently taking Intro to Editing and Visual Effects, where I am editing the D.C. project that I wrote and directed last month, and finding numerous things that I will change for my next production. Mostly, it’s issues with continuity.

The other course I’m taking is Documentary Filmmaking, in which my group’s project is currently set to involve a road trip to New Jersey in order to document the teams PMS Clan and Funk That in their pro-gaming competitions. Whether or not the trip will take place is still under consideration, but either way, we are making a documentary short about those two pro-gaming teams. The Manager of both teams is actually a Full Sail student taking the Entertainment Business Online Degree Program. Small world, eh?

Wednesday I found out about another opportunity I had. Rick Ramsey, my D.C. Course Director and one of the key faculty in the Film Program, gave me a call to let me know I had been nominated to go to Dallas in the end of April-beginning of May to attend the 2009 Apple Educators Conference. Only ten Full Sail students would be going, and they had to interview and be approved by Dave Franko, Full Sail’s Film Program Director. I interviewed yesterday, told Dave and his assistant Bobbi that I was good with pretty much everything I had learned up until now, but I was better on camera than I was with Final Cut Pro. I got a call that afternoon saying, “Congratulations, you’ve been chosen!” So I’m going to Dallas in April.

Whew… that’s a lot. I haven’t even gotten into my private time where I am planning out how to produce a couple of shorts I have ideas for. I currently have three full stories, and about two that are 50% there. This year is going to be intense, and like I tell everyone, I love every minute of it.

- Robert

The first one is Devastator. Now, his torso is made up of that giant wheeled bot from the Super Bowl spot(Alt mode is the giant excavator they have in mining valleys), so just guess at how big he will actually be. And yes, he is a Decepticon.

The Fallen is that second badass brute. I think this film will center around defeating him. I think the title gives that away.

In the third image you see Devastator, The Fallen, and a bot that looks a helluva lot like Megatron. Bad news people, Michael Bay and the writers have said that Megatron is DEAD on many occasions. Then who is it? My guess is Galvatron, Megatron’s second form. Galvatron’s alt mode is a tank, and numerous details keep spilling out about toys and other things with “Megatron” in a damaged tank mode. I think this could be excellent, given that it follows the lore pretty well or a live action film.

Tell me what you guys think!

- Robert

Oh, and here’s a little snippet of the stuff they are up to on the production of TF2:

Here’s another angle of what I think is that same explosion(different take, more than likely). Make sure you click the “HD is OFF” button so you can watch it bigger, in HD. It takes you offsite, but it’s sooo pretty.

- Robert