Everything I have learnt this semester, all my training, my lessons, has led me to this moment.

On Saturday I shoot my final Film 3 project. The lead up to this shoot has been a bizarre hopscotch of time passing in flurries of activity and extended periods of inactivity. Every day I wake up and I feel like it should be happening today, right now, this instant! And even now its still two days away. Im eager to get to it, and create these images that have been stuck in my head for so long.

Already this project hasn’t been exactly smooth sailing. On Wednesday I was expecting i’d have to scrap the whole thing. I didn’t have an actress, no time to audition any, and no way of getting my film equipment home. Thankfully, due to the help of Corey the equipment is en route, and I asked Gen, a high school friend of mine who I hesitated to ask in the initial stages of looking for an actress, since she is in Yr 12 and approaching her exam period, is now starring.

Its been rough emotionally, and logistically, but in the end these are all minor hiccups, baby problems, especially when I think of some of the horror stories that come off big budget movie sets. But its given me a taste of the kind of problems and pressure that rise up in this industry, and the knowledge that I can handle it.