It's amazing to think that it has been almost a month since my last entry. Well, 21 days. This semester is going to fall through my hands like grains of sand if I'm not careful. But a lot of things have taken place the last few weeks that were both life and project altering. The first bit of news is a family tragedy, the night of January 27th my sister Shannon, died of a blood clot resulting from a minor surgery she had. This was (and still is) the most difficult experience I have ever gone through it my life. The pain, despair and emptiness were almost too much to handle. The day after this was discovered was quite possibly the longest day of my life. My sister was a wonderful person, as evidenced by the hundreds of people that showed up to her memorial service despite 5 inches of snow falling that day. It is just such a random, pointless event that nobody could ever be prepared for. The only thing I could think of that made me feel better was to dedicate this film that I am doing in my sister's memory as well, adding further emotional gravity to this entire project.
The other event that has taken place is the immense snowfall that has decided to envelop the entire Northeast. I'd say Shippensburg got easily about 3 feet of snow, spread between two crippling blizzards. As such, I have barely left my house in the past week, and the world is just now starting to crawl out from under everything. I have not been to either of my classes in two weeks now, due to my family emergency and now this. My original first filming date was February 6th, which was during the heart of the first blizzard. My rescheduled date is this Sunday, but I don't see how I can do any of the exterior shots I had planned with 2+ feet of snow on the ground. It may make for some interesting shots, but I am going to just stick to interior shots until some of this snow goes away. I've now had 2 meetings with Dr. Ellerbach rescheduled, and I know he wants to see some sort of script before I start filming, but Adele's schedule is so tight it seems like I'm unfortunately going to have to forego procedure due to all of these extenuating circumstances.
I finally got my MacBook Pro back from the shop, and it is working like a champ again. I captured the footage from the Hi-8, and my original plan was to edit the trailer from strictly this footage, but I now believe that is not going to work. I feel that I am going to need some other footage to make a sufficient trailer. It is just great to have my computer back. Two weeks on a netbook isn't great on the eyes.
That's about all of the updates I have for now. I hope it is understandable why I have been so silent for the past few weeks. It has been an unbelievable difficult time for me, but I will make it through. My band's first show at an actual venue is this Saturday night in Baltimore. Wish us luck.
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