Several Months Later

At some point in my life I developed the legal sort of coke addiction. The cola variety. There have been times it's the only reason I've left the house. There have been times I've ordered takeaway not because I was particularly in need of the food but because it meant people would bring cola to my house. To help get over this problem I've started buying it in the more expensive glass bottles and treating it as a treat again, like when I was a child. There's a bottle sat in the fridge at the moment chilling. I have earned it, for today I became a filmmaker.

It's been nine months since I started this blog though admittedly it hasn't been updated for the last seven, so if you're just joining here let's do a quick recap. I work as a projectionist, a job without much future in the digital world. Last year I was offered voluntary redundacy which forced me to really think about what I would do, where I would go if I left the job. I can't move away from film. I mean, I don't want to; it would be too sad. Moving to making films was both an impossible leap and a strikingly obvious choice.

So film school it is. Norwich University College of the Arts to be precise. The blog up until now has been How To Get Into Film School When You've No Academic Background. If you don't want to read the previous entries, here's the tl;dr version: Work Hard.

That's the story so far. Today I made my first film and over the weekend I'm going to talk about how bad it was, how fun it was, and where we're going from here. From here on out this blog is an assessed part of the course so don't worry, I will be updating regularly.