-_-Immenhausen Jens-_-

It's almost been two weeks since we started project "Immenhausen Jens". This is a short film that counts as our German III midterm. Our group, containing Collin White, Adam  Carpenter, Daniel Carpenter, Thomas Rasmussen, and myself, has put countless hours writing scrips, translating scripts to German, planning out shots, getting permission to shoot in certain places, and more. Yesterday marked day one of shooting the film. We were able to film all the scenes that needed to be shot in the "evil headquarters", or in this case, PCHS. It was full of several amazing shots, angles, and bit of dialog, but also with tons of hilarious bloopers. No movie would be complete without a blooper reel at the end. Tomorrow, we'll head over to Mariners Museum for the next few "action packed" scenes. Sunday will be the finishing day, filming any filler shots or transition scenes, editing, and rendering. For all movie makers out there, you know the pain of rendering a video. It requires nothing but the push of a button, and almost eleven hours of your time. So, heading into this weekend, both my group and I are expecting to make this German rendition of Indiana Jones both a complete film, and a complete masterpiece!

-_-_Recovery_-_-

Over the past week, my family has been having to deal with a rather hard loss. On March 1st, at  7:05PM, my grandmother passed away. Trying to recover this loss is probably the hardest thing to do in all my high school years. After she passed, the next few days I felt like doing nothing at all. No work was turned in, information studied, I didn't even want to talk to anyone for the next few days. Immediately I fell behind in just about every class. When I found out about this, or my parents did first (THAN I found out), I realized that not only was I throwing away my education, but that I was ruining my future life. My parents and I have now come up with a plan to get me back on track. Slowly but surely, I will be back on my feet, but I have to keep my eyes on my work and on nothing else.