Mediocre Film Depts don't care

So, this week, I am heading out to California to see Glenn and get things in order out there. Also, I am heading out there to see what it's like so I don't end up fucking myself over by moving to a place that I hate.The thing is, I was going to bring a camera but I came to find out that the faculty has it. and that REALLY pisses me off. So, I have to use the shitty PD-170 (as I had to with Scott Willis's shoot because someone in the department thinks that besides getting paid (probably pretty meagerly I admit), they deserve to be able to take away from student's productivity.

It's also hilarious that the Sophmore class ties up the best equipment for the ENTIRE semester so that we literally have to work a small miracle just to shoot something of quality. It was funny when we had to beg, borrow, and steal from people other than the film department just to get some quality lights to use on the Advanced Production Class...a class sponsored by the same department that purposely (I would argue) tried to handicap it in order to see the one narrative fim tacher at MassArt fail and perhaps get fired for this same reason.

It's also quite silly to me that this department is finally going to start moving in the right direction only AFTER me and my peers are gone.

Don't know about you, but I went to college for equipment access...not film theory (the word film theory makes me laugh when I think of this school. ha ha ha)
It's not enough that we only have 2 cameras for 12 students to shoot a 30 minute piece each and the shooting ratios that that needs (you do the math) we have to be given more of a middle finger by the fact that our teachers are taking away from our time to create pieces by taking the cameras out over the single most productive time of the semester..Spring Break. I remember having to wait for three weeks at the beginning of the semester for various people to "let" us take the cameras out. Now, we all know that the first few weeks of September are the best time to shoot because of the weather and people's schedules, but NO, that's just when teachers/studio managers want them to sit there. Man, am I pissed that I have to use a PD-170 for three different projects just because the HDV has been taken out of commission (I heard a faculty memeber had it). Call me old fashioned, but I think I should probably be able to use it if I am forking over this amount of money...but no. Man, I could go on and on about why I hate the film department, but I won't. I'll just say that when I graduate, I won't be giving any money to this terrible school because all it did was make it an impossible uphill battle for me to make anything of quality while I was here...no wonder no one knows about this film department. No lie...everything I have ever attempted at this school was shortened or truncated by the department's facilities, equipment, students, and sometimes even teachers (esp in this case). At this point, I am ready to go away and never even look back. And mark my words, if I am famous/rich one day, I still won't contribute a penny to this terrible program because the way I see it, it owes me $12,000.00 for each year I wasted here.

I could have been making films. But, instead, I went to this school that actually prevented me from making them in any way that it could.