To Sequence 64:
Enjoy it while you can. Have fun. These people will become your family for a year. You’ll be pouring your sweat and blood into projects together, spending late nights in the editing suites or in the studio, and not sleeping together.
The most important piece of advice I can give to anyone is for whatever you want to do, keep doing it. If you want to be a director, don’t stop directing, do as much of it as you can while you have the free equipment and the friends you can draft into being producers, editors, cast, etc. If you want to write, keep writing. Don’t wait for an assignment to come up in class before you write something. If you want to be a producer, produce stuff. Don’t wait for an assignment. Yes, classes are important, but take advantage of the resources at your disposal. You are paying a lot of money for the right to the Cage and the edit suites, use them!
If your sequence is anything like our sequence, you’ll have a broad range of people around you, with different goals and interests. These are people you’ll want to keep in touch with long term, so don’t just shut yourself in your apartment to study, study with friends. Develop working relationships with people you like. Someday you may be in a job where your bosses are looking for someone, you can suggest someone who is not only talented and qualified, but who you’ll enjoy working with.
To make the most of TRF, just work on whatever sort of projects you’re passionate about, and make sure you cultivate relationships with your classmates.
This is good to hear and I do agree. I also think that sometimes relationships do take time to build. Bootcamp was a good lesson, but also stressful. I think relationship building can not be forced, but developed naturally over time. I got to know people in bootcamp, but not as well as I would have liked. I am hoping to get to know more people in the fall over time. Having a variety of new classes and mixing with new people I am hoping will help build new relationships. I tend to not hang out with the same people or “click” each time. I have always never really belonged to just one group. Sometimes this makes me feel a bit out of place. At the same time, this might help me sort of get to know a more broader selection of peers.