Dutch Angles

I think I've had a walk through film-making terminology just about every semester now. But I can't say I'm complaining, it's a nice refresher. The mouse dogs are wholly new, however. This also reminded me of Mitch Brian's tirade about putting camera direction in scripts. I find the hardest thing about screenwriting is slipping the subtle hints at direction in the script. But then again, battle plans never survive first contact with the enemy and scripts never survive, in tact, when given to a producer.

My father became a deist because of Ayn Rand

I try not to think about politics. It generally puts me into a nihilistic state of mind, probably because I'm a Libertarian living with a Tea-Party Republican. But the thing I find myself hating the most about politics is the campaign season. I don't watch broadcast television any more, and I had hoped that would lessen my desire for suicide during the campaign season, but that isn't the case. There was an ad for Obama at the beginning of a youtube video I watched this morning and it really annoyed me (mainly because it's still 2011 and I don't like Obama's 'more government fixes everything' thing). If I believed in the concept of a soul I might say it was a soul-crushing time to be a media consumer. It's a sad thing to be utterly disdainful of one's government and  politics by the age of 23.