Ain’t that the truth.
Anyway – the quick update is that things are busy but good. I just got back from a 6-day film shoot out in West Virginia (beautiful!), doing production sound mixing for an NYU Student Film. I’m hoping that I get a chance to work with the film in post-production as well. It was a lot of fun – really awesome people and a great experience. Doing sound for a movie, it turns out, is extremely different from doing studio music recording, but there were a lot of really experienced people on the set to help me figure stuff out. AND… turned out that one of the people on the shoot was from Portland… went to Lincoln High… and was in the same graduating class as Nick!!! He was like, “Nick Katagiri? Yeah, I know him. We used to party together. Football player. Really good too. And a great artist. We all loved him!” So that was a trip.
I’ll post some pics from the shoot.
Other than that, I’m just doing the school thing and trying to make the most of that. I had to miss some class to go to West Virginia, but I figured that opportunities like that were the reason I was in school in the first place.
I also got into a study abroad seminar that will take me to London for two weeks in January, before the Spring semester starts, looking at the music there in particular and thinking about international music management in general. Part of the curriculum involves going to concerts that the professor will set up for us. I’m pretty excited about that – sounded like she’s got a good track record of finding good up-and-coming bands.
And… I hesitate to write this because I realize it’s kind of cliché, but I’m in the process of writing a book. I’m half-hoping that this declaration will ensure that I don’t leave it on a back-burner. It’s been a lot of fun so far and I’m really enjoying the process, if nothing else. I hope I can finish it… but at the same time I can already hear the Great Spirit laughing.
I hope you are all well!!
Sound stuff…
Location at mid-day…
Scott, our director, talking with two of the principal actors…
At sundown…
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2 comments:
Zach, that sounds incredible! Movies, music production, a book...I'm going to be saying I knew you when. :) Thanks for the update!
was it a horror movie? the second picture looked just like a scene from a short horror movie i saw a long time ago. i think it might have been one of the stories in a creepshow movie. these college kid go out on the lake and get eaten by a blob in the water. :D
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