OTH Opening Credits

I don't know about you but I miss hearing Gavin DeGraw's "I Don't Want To Be" at the beginning of OTH. In honor of this I have complied a video of the opening credits from each of the seasons (excluding the current one because there isn't one). Enjoy the walk down memory lane.

Ok so the original posting that I did had a slight error in it. This is the real one. APRIL FOOLS!

Small Soap Box

Ok so something sparked inside of me while talking in the chat tonight. Welcome to my small soap box rant.

Does life always have to be neat and tidy and follow a set of rules or guidelines?

I don't think so. I think that life is messy, unorganized, chaotic, random, and never follows the rules. If it did we would all be living in 2 story houses with white picket fences and have 2.5 children. 

So why should you squash someone's vision to fit into something that you already know. What is wrong with being groundbreaking? If it weren't for someone taking a risk and trying something new we wouldn't have what we have today. They aren't cookie cutter copies of other things. No two people, companies, bands, TV shows, drinks, foods, anything are the same. They can't be handled the same either. You have to adjust your thinking for what you are dealing with.

SGP is breaking the mold. They are treading in territory never touched by a production company. They are reaching directly out to their fan base. Interacting with them, making a more personal connection to them. Before they shot a single frame of film on their movie they are having a dialogue with the people who will eventually make or break it. Because lets face it, you can make the best movie in the world but if you don't have people to go and see it then it is classified as a failure.

You are nothing without your fans in Hollywood. Ratings, box office numbers, $$$. That's what the suits live for. Fans can be some of the most passionate and out spoken people in the world. They share what they like, and share more what they dislike. They can have the power to get a show cancelled by not watching it, bring a show back from the edge of cancellation with their voices and they can change the entire direction that Hollywood aims their products.

As times change so do the fans and the studios. I think what SGP is doing is the future of Hollywood studios. People want to feel a connection to the things and people they see on the screen. Between Twitter, Facebook, Myspace you can see it slowly changing. But no one has tried this approach. No one has blogged and chatted, and shared with their fans. They are sharing their passion, their dreams, their business and they're doing it from the heart. That is what matters, do something you love because you love it. They don't have to share with us but they choose to. That is why they will succeed.

"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." - Shakespeare

Why Entertainment?

Of all the careers I could have choose I picked one in one of the toughest industries to break into. But why did I choose this. I don't want the glitz and glamor of the celebrity of it. I don't want to be known world wide. I don't have to rich or overly successful either. 

So why this area, why this career?

I have always loved movies, music, TV, entertainment in general. I always made up stories in my head and acted them out. But I never thought of using that in my career. I wanted to play sports, coach, teach, all of that other stuff.

But when I moved out of my house and went to college nothing seemed to fit. I didn't like any of my classes. I didn't really want to spend the rest of my life stuck in a classroom or gym. Then I was just going to go into business, just general business as to not tie myself down. But then I didn't like being stuck in an office. During this period I had babbled in writing screenplays and making short films/documentaries of my life. I never thought of this as a career still tho.

Then I got back from living in Florida and one of my ex-boyfriends was going to a school called Full Sail University. I looked into the school and thought it sounded interesting. After having worked at the local movie theater, being interested in how the film was made and sent to us, and how we put it all together in the end, film school appealed to me. Then I starting researching careers and doing some soul searching. It all clicked and I was hooked. I wanted nothing more than to make movies or TV shows. To write, shoot, direct, find locations, get funding, everything. I had it all planned out in my head. But then the recession hit and my plans had to change again.

It was not feasible for me to move to FL and go to school. But then the opportunity to learn the business side of things presented itself and it made since. I want to be able to be an independent filmmaker or start my own production company. I want to be able to know what I'm doing on the business side of things. I have connections to learn the actual production side and would rather try to get real world experience with that. So it worked out.

But what about my original question. Why the entertainment world? 

There is no easy answer to that question. And I wonder if you asked anyone in the industry if they could give you and simple answer either. I want to inspire, but there are many ways to do this. I want to entertain, but again there are many ways to do that. So why?

Because I have so many stories to tell, or help tell. Because I see things and can see what they could look on a bigger scale. Because I talk to someone and want to tell their story to the world. Because I want to be apart of the magic that has touched my life. I know what a story, or an actor/actress, a piece of music, a location, the way something is shoot can change your life. I want to do that. I want to change lives, or if not then just make them a little bit better for an extended period of time. 

I want to entertain. To much of the world these days is doom and gloom. The news saves the happy stories for the end, and leaves all the bad at first. We are surrounded by the bad. I want to bring back the good into someone's life, even if it's briefly. I want to make their day just a little brighter. That is what I want to do. I was born to entertain, but not as me, as the characters I create and display.

Once When I Was Little

Here is my embarrassing childhood videos. I am looking into ways of converting more of these because this was actually a pretty fun project. Now please remember that I was 11, it was the 90's and there is no accounting for my fashion (or anyone else's for that matter). Enjoy.

Childhood Memories

It's time to lighten things up a little bit. So many of my posts lately have been on the serious side that I want to share something funny with everyone.

Now everyone has embarrassing pictures and videos from when they were little. We all dread when they get brought out around our friends or boyfriends/girlfriends. Well I have recently discovered videos of myself like that.

When I was 11 years old my family took our first trip to Disney World. Now I loved it. But I completely forgot about the videos that existed. That was until I moved to Florida. My dad sent me a couple DVD's of these videos. When I moved back home I put the box in storage and never really thought about it. 

Well I am going through all of my stuff to clean out and get ready to move and rediscovered these DVD's. I watched them this afternoon and wow, talk about embarrassing. It was funny for me to watch. I couldn't help but laugh at myself.

Now as a special treat to all of you I will be sharing pieces of these videos with you all. I am currently editing and retouching them but they should be ready by tonight or tomorrow morning. So get excited.