(To explain the picture up above, you must first know it is from the movie Rushmore, and that the main character’s name is Max Fischer. He is who I said I identified most with when asked to identify with any movie character, regardless of gender, race or age.)

Well, after the weeks of waiting for the application that would decide whether or not I got an interview to this “prestigious” film school for the next two years of my life that may or may not (depending on the opinion of who you’re talking to) set up my future career…

I had “the interview” today. Wasn’t bad at all. One of the interviewers was tired from seeing Sex in the City and the other one asked fairly easy questions.

The question that was tricky they prefaced with “Are you a good storyteller?” I bluntly answered “yes”, figuring that this was what they expected. Then they gave me three words-parakeet, rowboat, and the color orange-and told me to come up with a story. This is a very painful endeavor and I don’t recommend it if you can help it.

Other than the generally pleasant interview, I sat in a room with about five film students and a couple other interviewees for a time, about twenty minutes before and about an hour and a half after. They were all really good people and it made me excited about the prospect of helping them out sometime in the future. Also it pays to be nice to them because they tell the interviewers what we’re like in “real life situations”.

I walked out with a guy and we talked for a bit about the reality of film school, and he confirmed that the way I’ve been doing things, the independently seeking out projects and creating your own work on the side is equally beneficial as any networking film school can give you. His projects are far more impressive than the ones I’ve attempted, and he encouraged me to audition for Spring Sing next year. High hopes! The lasting impression he gave me was that if he had to pick between Spring Sing and Film School, there’d be no choice… Spring Sing hands down, in the sense that it has led to him getting almost everything he has and is working on.

Sad news for all of you though, this ends the streak of film school postings. I find out one way or the other in July (gets mailed to my house in Loomis… so mother must open it and telegram me the news), and I don’t plan on dwelling upon this anymore than this post.

Ultimately, I doubt that I am that much different than the rest of the candidates, so I imagine I am on the fine line between acceptance and rejection, which is fine. I had a good time laughing around with the other interviewees and the actual film school students, met someone I’d like to work with in the future, and blocked one of Conor’s shots in basketball today.

Pretty good day.