The LA campus of New York Film Academy is made up of three buildings. All of my classes are usually in the "brick" building, but last night, my teacher chose to hold class in a room with a built-in-set in the glass building. So my classmates and I were all on our jolly way to the class when something amazing caught our eyes. The Spike Lee Room. I guess I should tell you that all of the rooms are named after directors, editors, actors, writers and such. And guess what! You have corresponding classes in those rooms. So, we have writing classes in a room named after a writer. Yep, you get the picture. Anyway, so we saw the Spike Lee Room, and it was the most spectacular thing ever! For those of you who have seen MTV Cribs, just imagine the most amazing theatre room. Well, that was what this was. Three rows of comfy chairs and a big screen. Now listen to this:
My teacher was teaching us a new lighting system, and showing us how to create a moonlight effect. He then broke out "Jurassic Park", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Kill Bill 2". These three movies have spectacular moonlit night scenes. So my teacher was putting on the first movie, and there seemed to be some kind of trouble with the DVD player. And much like in undergrad, when someone would always ask the teacher if we could have class outside, I took the DVD trouble as a cue. I blurted out, "can we watch the movies in the Spike Lee Room?" "Sure. Let's do that," my teacher responded. And just like that, I was the most popular girl in school. We rushed into the theatre room and everyone was fist bumping me and saying, "good call, Edrei." Pretty freaking amazing!
Today, we edited our films from this weekend. I'm about to send an email to my directing teacher to see if we can screen those films in the Spike Lee Room.
Tomorrow, we film on the "Europe" back lot at Universal Studios! Woohoo!
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