Jackie: A Tale of Perversity and Woe

Here's the trailer I made for Brittany, in case anyone is curious!

Oh, Final Cut. I missed you. *hugs Final Cut in an ever-so-slightly sexual way*

Script Frenzy is starting today! Guess I should get working on my script. ...Later.

NO I REALLY WILL WRITE IT LATER. I'm gonna try to write 3-4 pages a day, at least. That's not a whole lot. It's manageable. I can do it! I CAN DO IT.

I just want to skip all of this shit in the beginning and go right to the gangster stuff BUT I FEEL LIKE THIS OTHER STUFF SHOULD BE THERE, but maybe it shouldn't. Maybe I really should just skip ahead even more. Because I'm not really sure what the point of all of this particular stuff is except to show how Charlie and Myra meet, because I read how the real Luciano and Lansky met and it's actually a cool story, and I wanted to put it in here, but I don't know if I can without all of this... it's filler! It feels like unnecessary filler. I dunno.

Actually, to be honest, I just want to skip everything until Charlie and Anne meet, but I definitely can't do that. There's gotta be some build-up.

eta: Problem solved by skipping all of the filler shit and just going right to Charlie and Myra meeting. Only now I don't know what should happen next. Great.

A Christmas present for Sophie. This was supposed to be a SUPER HIGH QUALITY WTF video that took four hours to upload, but instead YouTube was all “lol no”, so here is a shitty, pixelated version instead. Yay?

also cross-posting like a mo-fo

Shit is coming together, guys. It is becoming increasingly possible that going to SVA for that one year was not a waste of time or money, and that I will be able to make this my career and won't be stuck doing retail for the rest of my life.

Today's been crazy. Kyle (the guy who directed the music video) set me up with this playwright, and I'll be cutting a trailer for his musical for $300. ACTUAL MONEY. ACTUAL MONEY TO BE PAID TO ME TO CUT A TRAILER. I met up with him today at the Starbucks in my town and discussed the details. It's going to be a little difficult because all of the footage is on DVDs that I'll have to rip, but hopefully it won't take forever.

However, I discovered last night that, when I gave Kyle the video in New York on Monday, I had accidentally exported it to DV instead of HD, and I've been scrambling to try to find a way to get it to him, because I have no time to go to New York in the next day or two. The file size is very large (3 GB), and I even bought a premium membership on Mediafire, but it still didn't work (which is really pissing me off, btw). So I'm gonna have to mail him a USB flash drive with the HD video in it, haha. Which is kind of ridiculous, but what can ya do.

ALSO! Kyle is asking me to edit another music video for him, and this time, the song is actually really good. I don't have to worry about that until another week or so, though.

WTF is going on with the comments pages? THEY LOOK TERRIBLE. The userpic is cutting into the text and it looks like crap.

/CURMUDGEONLY OLD LADY

In other news, still working on music video and got my bangs trimmed today. Yay.

I guess I am officially sick, you guys. :( I'm all stuffy nose and sinus headache and uggggh. I couldn't even properly enjoy the city today I was all "nviroevioaaagh", not to mention all the crap I was carrying with me.

I guess I should explain -- I went into the city today for ~business~. Tanaya hooked me up with an editing job for a friend of hers. I'll be editing a hip-hop music video for an independent artist. I met up with the director guy today in Union Square so he could give me the footage and the song and tell me what he wants. He said I could basically just do whatever, but he wants quick cuts and slow-mo (which he already did for me, so yay!). I don't have to do the green screen either, he said, so that's good, although I took the green screen footage anyway so I have something to practice on.

That took about an hour, so then I went to Goodburger to have some lunch, and killed some time by naming all of the images in my GIFS folder because I would've felt stupid going home right away. Then I wandered around the farmer's market and Whole Foods, then went home since no one was available to hang out and my shoulders hurt from lugging my laptop and 500GB hard drive (which I wound up not getting to use).

Just took some Nyquil. I hope I don't have scary hallucinations in the middle of the night like last time.

I've started writing a screenplay! It is not, however, for the story I mentioned in a previous entry, but for this story instead. I'm a little excited! Mostly I'm just excited that I'm actually writing something, even if it's just an adaptation of a story I've already written. There's very little chance this will actually be made, since it'd be too long for a short film but not long enough for a feature... plus I don't even know who would make it! Certainly not me. I'm never directing anything ever again. It'd be too difficult for me to film this, anyway. At least the ending scenes.

(oh, and if you read the story and you have any constructive criticism, let me know! I wrote the story when I was 15, so it could definitely use some improvement)

I finished making that trailer for Tanaya's short film The Landlady! Check it out and let me know what you think.

The Landlady Trailer from Jackie Forbes on Vimeo.

LJ isn't loading for me at the moment, so I'm gonna post this at Dreamwidth for now.

I called Sallie Mae today, and it turns out that I will, in fact, need a co-signer for this $5000 loan. Which fucking sucks, because I have no idea who to ask. I can't ask my parents because they're filing for bankruptcy so obviously they will be rejected, and if I try to ask my grandma again it will probably take a month to track her down and get it done like last time, and possibly it will be a fruitless endeavor again. I pretty much never talk to any of my other relatives, and they would probably be rejected as well because, idk we are all poor fucks. I need to figure something out, and soon. I have to do this, you guys.

But! In more light-hearted news, there is a possible trip to San Diego in late May in the works. My mom just has to convince my dad to go. There's a concert or something, I dunno, but she said I can tag along on the trip if I pay my own airfare. So, sweetness.