week nine

week nine was the short week for thanksgiving break!
we had no classes or readings for eric this week and only thorsten's class & excursion happened.

in this classes that we did have, we discussed the "final solution" and wannsee conference in pretty great detail. nathan and frodo gave their presentation, and our excursion out to wannsee was very pleasant besides the obvious considering how those crazy nazi men could think of this "solution".

because we did not have much classwork this week, i had a lot of time to think about my film.
at the beginning of this week, i simply decided that i absolutely hated my idea for the part of the film. it had no great plot/ filler to the story and i was really unsatisfied with what i had. for a few days, i didn't even want to think about it because it depressed me so much about my story.

on tuesday afternoon before class, i played a part for the josh-kelly-sean group's film, which is a kind of "love affair" with the city of berlin. we filmed a lot near the victory tower/tier garten area, then moved on to film more at the brandenburg gate. at first i thought it was silly that i was working on someone else's group's film and neglecting my own film so much, and then i realized that being around people like josh and kelly who are really into filming things was really, really refreshing. it definitely gave me the fresh breath of air i needed to start thinking about my own film again.
after some hesitation, i decided to tell them that i was completely stuck on my film after awhile and they gave me some really great ideas about what direction i should take my story in. i've never been a great fiction writer (always preferring to discuss real events) so writing this story had been so hard to do. however kelly, who apparently is a good fiction-type writer was full of ideas for me and i felt so happy to hear her fresh ideas. i spent the next 3-4 hours writing like crazy with tons of inspiration flowing and feeling fabulous about the future of my part of the film.

i have already set time to begin filming, and i am so excited to start with my part.