Tomorrow: The First Day of my Future

Tomorrow I begin University. Its the course that I have always wanted to do, at one of Melbourne's best Universities. This seemed like an impossible destination for myself a few years ago, I thought I had absolutely no hope at getting here, but now I am it seems like it was meant to be. Although, I felt like I had just taken the next step in life, as though I hadn't really discovered my big breaking point in which I have my once-in-a-lifetime breakthrough and discover my purpose in life. It felt like I was just waltzing though one step at a time to reach my career destination.

Then I realised what I was doing here- why I had worked so hard through the last 13 years of my life to get into this nearly-impossible to get into course. It was to experience a life that I want, not to take the next step, but to experience life as I, like everyone else, try to reach my destination. And, suddenly, it became not about the shiny glimmer of a life I could have in the future, but a completely well lit path, which will become my life.

Like they say...life isn't the destination. It's the Journey.

So anyway, from this point my blog will turn into a record of my life through Uni, doing my Media course. Keep your eyes on this space!

My First Project of the Year

Have you seen the recent 2009 movie "Paranormal Activity?"


Well, when I first watched this low budget jumpy flick I knew absolutely nothing about it. My mother handed it to me on a blank DVD and said that her friend gave it to her and she wasn't sure what it was. With not even a simple home-made DVD title screen, I was a bit weirded out by the home-movie style concept. When I sat through the whole thing, I was home-alone, sitting in pitch black darkness on a cold night and extremely curious as to where this footage came from.

Turns out I had received a "leaked" copy of this film before it had been released. If you had seen the cinematic version of the film, you will notice that there is no credits, just a simple message at the beginning explaining when the footage was shot, and a simple "Thanks to the families of the couple for releasing the footage" at the end. My version was absolutely nothing like this, it did not even have a black screen at the beginning, it just started as if you had plugged in your handy cam to view your own footage after a day of shooting. There was nothing at the end either, it just ended.

I am the type of person that needs to know some information about a film before I see it. I'm the annoying one that enters a room when everyone is half-way through watching a movie and I yell out "What's this movie!?", "What's is about!?", "Who's in it!?".



I have to admit, on this cold winter night the film Paranormal Activity scared the shit out of me.

I know this is hilarious, but if you were in my position you would have probably shit yourself as well. And I'm the type not to get scared while watching a film - believe me!

Anyway, after a few sleep-less nights recently I just had a small idea that would give me a small kick up the ass and prepare me for film school in the coming month. This was to create another home-movie style film, inspired by the film Paranormal Activity, complete with rigs, stunts, and jumpy moments. With the help of a few very talented friends from a theatre I know, I can see this ridiculously highly-shit-risked film having a small chance of having the same affect on its viewers as Paranormal Activity had on me, but that small chance is something I am going to take!



What will make my idea different?

This is all to do with what the intentions are. The film Paranormal Activity was a project created by the maker's of the Blair Witch Project, which was intended to be released cinematically and make shit-loads of money, particularly because it cost around $14,000 or something to actually make. This is an investment to laugh at. What I plan to do, is burn multiple copies onto blank DVDs with no labels, and hand them out anywhere and everywhere. No plan to even upload it to YouTube.


Incredibly stupid, I know, but something about this says "fuck you" to Hollywood.