My first weekend since classes started is about to end, and I believe an update is due. Actually, I should be working, but what the heck. It's not even 11pm.
On Thursday (or was it Wednesday?) Donny George Youkhanna from the Iraq State Board of Antiquities came to do a little presentation, where he talked about his experiences at the Iraq Museum during the US invasion. He was one of the 5 people actually in the museum when US forces entered Baghdad. He was here thanks to the Oriental Institute which is the real-life home of Indie Jones (who was based on an actual U of C prof).
Sometime last week, Prof. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize in literature. He currently teaches at the U of C, which brings the total number of Nobel laureates related to the university up to 75. In general though, the "normal" reaction upon hearing this news here appears to be, either to sigh or groan. It seems like us new students are the only ones excited about it...
On Friday night, I had my first shift as AP (Assistant Projectionist) at Doc Films, which was very exciting. I knew absolutely nothing about projecting film, so it was a completely new experience for me. Apparently you're supposed to start with 16mm before doing 35mm, but they messed up and scheduled me on Fridays, which is all new 35mm film. We projected the Hulk, which comes in 8 reels. Basically, there are 2 projectors, and you alternate back and forth. Considering this day and age, I was expecting something heck of a lot more high-tech than what we (and probably most theaters) use. Loading the film entails passing the film through 5 gates and sprockets, making sure that the frame is lined up right (which is done visually) and also ensuring that there is enough (but not too much) slack in certain places. Then you forward to the 7 second frame (basically, you see a big "7"), and you're done. When the reel on the active projector starts to run low, you get ready by the other projector and stare at the upper right hand corner of the screen. Eventually, a dot flashes, and you turn on the motor, then the lamp. Another few seconds later, the second dot flashes, and you bang on a foot pedal which makes the switch happen. Since each reel is about 15 minutes long, and it takes me nearly that long to load up a new reel, I really didn't get to watch much of the movie, except when Jason (the projectionist) was loading reels... In the furture, I'll probably go to early showings (with my free volunteer pass :-) so that I'm not too distracted by the actual movie when I'm projecting.
Today was the first meeting for Fire Escape Films. The main purpose of the meeting was to meet the officers, then split up into groups with whom we will be working this quarter on our intro projects. They had a few past members with their own ideas, but they also asked new members to present their own ideas, if they had any. I would've been perfectly happy going with one of the existing projects, but I decided to do my own, because I'm crazy like that. One other person was interested mine, and there were a couple of other groups that only had two people, so we all joined and formed the "Experimental" group. Basically, we're going to make all 3 movies, except we can get help from the others. We also have two "mentors" who will help us figure things out as we go...
I only had a rough idea of what I wanted to do when I presented it at the meeting, but it's since evolved into an action-packed thriller with a surprise ending. Titled "The Beast", it entails swooping camera action (i.e. flinging expensive cameras around at high speeds), murder, and a rubber ducky. That's all I can say for now, but it's going to kick ass.
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