My film/video class has been interesting in changing the way i frame everything i take in day-to-day. My teacher made a rather interesting point about using a zoom lens the other day – a quick zoom shot is unnerving because human beings have no way to zoom in on a picture, but a slow zoom on something like a face is nature because it simulates us getting closer and closer to whatever we’re looking at.
Something else that i’ve been noticing is the distance i frame my visual “shots” from. I think we all mostly use a full or mid shot, where we’re looking at most of the torso of someone, plus their head and some of the space above it. A shot we almost never use in real life is extreme-closeup, where we don’t even focus on the entirety of an object but just the focus of its action. How often do we see a face in extreme closeup? Pretty much only when we’re close enough to kiss someone, wouldn’t you say? It’s hard to keep perspective on something when you’re that close … trying to remember what a cheekbone and a jaw have to do with the rest of a face or the entirety of a person. It’s almost easy to forget that anything else is there except for that fraction of a face… a visage floating more closely than you’d ever dare get with a camera.
q.o.d.
Cast Parties are notoriously highly drunken incidents where approximately one fifth of those in attendance make an absolutely spectacle of themselves and don’t ever live it down. I always make sure to make a spectacle of myself so that i’ll always live in infamy,… at least until the next party. Last night was pretty tame, mostly because all of the Freshmen got their big first-time-drunk experience out of the way already, and everyone else was still recovering from New Year’s. As a testament to the amount of responsibility that was occurring, no one got flagged until past 3am, which isn’t such a bad time to be flagged. True to form, i made sure that i would be reminded about the party every day in the weeks to come. I’m almost afraid to go on instant messenger, because i’ll be deluged by comments from whoever’s on. Of course, they’re probably still all sleeping off their hangovers :p
But, while i’m awake i should probably tell you that i did something that was really uncharacteristic of me tonight, while remaining totally within character. While many of my friends were shocked (though not appalled), in the end their opinion of me didn’t change at all. And, as it turns out, i’m not an asshole! Isn’t that cool? So, i’m thinkin’ that maybe y’all need to guess what would be out of character for me, and what i could do to make it in character. Or, you could wait until i wake up and then i might tell you. Yeah… sure… have fun with that wait of yours. Otherwise, guess your best guess!
Um…, yeah. It’s 5am now, so really it’s still yesterday, which i never quite finished talking about. But i’m not really ready to finish talking about it, or to talk about anything else. The Cast Party was as all Cast Parties are. Theatre rocks. I’m gonna sleep now… this is sorta just a reminder of where i was mentally so tomorrow i can pick up the narrative. I’ll tell some fun bits, i promise…
Meanwhile, i think i finally sorta learned how to flirt. Like… we all went to Denny’s last night, and i kept giving the girl at the table across from us sexy eyes and then she started staring back and stuff. It’s cause i did my hair all sexy, i wish you could see it so you could appreciate it.