Filling Extra Time With Filmmaking School, Begin Monday

March 13, 2009 by Jeff Gammons
Filed under Featured, Gammons Personal Blog

It’s been a very complicated week with several projects going on and a lot of running around. First I’m happy to announce that I will be attending a Filmmaking school over the next 4 months to better myself in screenwriting, pre production and post production editing. I’m very excited and look forward to starting class this upcoming Monday. I’m also excited that I’ll be learning Final Cut Pro and working on Mac’s. I have always been a Windows user, and did all my video editing in either Adobe Premiere CS3 or Sony Vegas Pro 8, but now I’m ready to learn the very popular Final Cut Pro Suite. I have wanted to do this for a while now, and I have the extra time to fit in my 2 day a week classes for the next 16 weeks.

Starting First Screenwriting Class This Monday -

I’m really looking forward to getting started this upcoming Monday. First up, FLM 101- Screenwriting /Scriptwriting: Research, developing the story, creation of characters, characters evolution, creating the 3-act structure, film terms, writing treatments, drafting a short story, and creating a storyboard. Sounds like a lot of fun, and even though I do know some of the basics already, it will be great to fine tuned things I have learned over the years on my own, and to do it in a state of the art lab working with high end HD gear. I plan to have a blog series on my Film School session, so look out for upcoming updates of my class’s here on Weatherzine in my personal blog section.

Busy With Other Things Going On -

Other than getting registered for school and attending open house in the last week, I have been busy around the house, tending to J.J. who has been under the weather, and working on a video highlight film for my Grandfathers surprise 80^th birthday party this Sunday. No worries, he doesn’t read the blog or even get online these days, so spilling the beans here on this post won‘t spoil the surprise…I hope.

Boring Weather, But At Least It’s Getting Hot -

One thing for sure that has been depressing me is the weather lately. No rain, no storms, nothing to chase or even get excited for. The only up side to the weather for me is it’s now hot. Yeah I love the hot and humid weather, and it was a very below normal temperature wise for Florida all Winter, and I‘m sick of it! Very drought conditions for much of Florida and we need rain bad as brush fires are beginning to break out.

So that’s it for this personal update. Much more to come on my film school experiences, and other news.

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5 Responses to “Filling Extra Time With Filmmaking School, Begin Monday”

Fernando on March 13th, 2009 11:10 am

congrats!
Charles Roop on March 14th, 2009 12:56 am

Congrats on starting film school.Sounds like a lot of fun. Final Cut is a nice program (I use FC Express 4) for video editing. You’ll like it.
Jeff Gammons on March 14th, 2009 11:56 am

Thanks Charles. Yes, I’m really pumped to be working with Final Cut Pro suite. It should be a fun and interesting next 4 months.
Boston digital imaging on March 17th, 2009 11:01 am

Good luck with film school!

I’m sure you will love working on a Mac and really enjoy Final Cut Pro. I actually just switched over to a Mac not too long ago and I am so happy I did. Enjoy your classes.

TJ
Jeff Gammons on March 17th, 2009 11:34 am

I appreciate that TJ, thanks! I started class yesterday in Screenwriting, and have a great Screenwriting professor. So many idea’s already running through my head. Really looking forward to diving into Final Cut too. I’m really happy I’m doing this now and know I’ll benefit from it well.

Is CDIA a school you attend or you’re an educator at? Thanks for stopping by.