So once again it’s that time of year, where film students have stars in their eyes. And suddenly every new person they meet is a ‘contact’ and they dream a little dream of making it big one day. Only this year…you gotta pay sucka. That’s right, every year before it was free for SCAD students to go to the…SCAD Film Festival. I think it was because we shell out $125,000 in tuition or something. But now you have to pay just like everyone else to get your hopes dashed and become jilted like a bride on her loveless wedding day. I guess P-Dub (our kick ass nickname for the President Paula Walace) needed to make alittle more than $800,000,000 this year. Yep…you read right. 800 Million dollars. In profit! Every year. She’s the highest paid college Dean in the world. Now how messed up is that?

Anyways, back to the issue at hand. And to top it off this year, EVERYTHING sold out within 7 hours of them not announcing that tickets were on sale. Yep, a couple Fridays ago tickets went on sale…but they didn’t tell anyone. So by the time SCAD students went to purchase tickets to the workshops (the only thing that is actually worthwhile) they were all sold out. Now our only hope is to email people that don’t email us back, and to go all ‘Alias’ on it’s ass and devise plans of sneaking in. I personally am going to dust off my old SCAD Catering uniform and get in through the back. But I even know a professor that couldn’t get tickets so he had to make a fake VIP pass. All just to sit in on a seminar! It’s ridiculous.

It just really pisses me off. And to see all the SCAD film students putting up pictures of themselves at ‘VIP’ parties and ‘look! it’s one of the Baldwins!’…it’s just all a little much. I really just want to tell them that not all of them will make it. And the fact is that maybe 2…out of 800…will actually make it as big as they’re hoping.

I guess as I near the finish line for graduation, still waiting to hear back from Zoic and ILM, I’m starting to wonder if it was all worth the $125,000 or if it was just a big scam. Because honestly, the best education I got in my 3 years at SCAD (and that’s not a typo, I somehow managed to finish in 3 years) was on the sets of films OUTSIDE of SCAD. Everything I know I pretty much taught myself, and I can count on one hand how much was thanks to SCAD. I guess that’s a good thing. Self reliance. But still, I could have done that back in Indiana and saved a boat load of money.

Anyways, that’s my rant for today. Jess gets back in a few hours and I can’t wait! She spent the weekend up in a cabin with her family and I had to stay back in Savannah to finish this Art History paper. It was a hoot let me tell you! Ok, well that’s enough complaining. I’ll get back to the funny stories and YouTube videos next post.

My mantra:

“It was worth $125,000, I will get a job. It was worth $125,000, I will get a job.” (repeat)