Who Me, Edit?!

I spent a lot of time this past week transferring footage from the computer to my back-up drive. I don't know how I'm going to edit this thing yet. I might just learn Adobe Premier Pro, or I'm considering just buying a Mac and getting Final Cut Pro and taking a class at Chicago Filmmakers to learn how to use it. If I learn that program, it would be easier to find a job as an editor in LA. I could also always edit my own projects. That would be awesome.

Other than that, everything is coming together right now. I'm going to talk to a lawyer this week, just to make sure I have everything in order when it comes to the release forms before I do interviews with my friends and family. I printed out the release forms, but I read that I should have them looked over.

On top of that, I'm getting back out there and trying to audition more. I have two auditions coming up in the next few weeks, for theater. I've never done theater before, but I would like to have that on my resume. I'm also going to go back to acting class. I feel out of practice. I also need to redo my demo reel.

Also, I'd put up a little snippet of some of the footage I've taken, and my mother had such a problem with it, I took it down off of Youtube. Not to appease her, per se, because she's being absolutely unreasonable and ridiculous. I mean, I'm still using the footage in the film! She's saying that I can't use pictures of dead family members in the film, and if I do, she'll sue me. Another reason to speak to a lawyer. On top of that, my brother is cyber bullying me. Wow, right?

But I'm okay because a) you learn to expect things from certain people and b) I have so much going on right now, and I'm staying so busy I don't have time to dwell. I'm trying to get more followers on Twitter, because more followers, more fans...more people that care that you've released a film or appearing in a play, released a single, whatever. Right now, I have almost 700 followers on Twitter, mostly because of the dear Rosario Dawson, who I met years ago when I was an extra on the set of the film "Light it Up". She's been retweeting me when I ask her to and I'm trying to get to 1000 followers by my birthday, February 8th. It's also awesome because not only am I networking, I'm meeting new people and having great conversations. So in between filming, editing, acting, working out and mommying, I'm having great conversations with strangers on my Blackberry on Twitter!