film school ugh

Sorry I haven't been updating that much lately. I am a month into school/producing my senior film. It is still the wildly inaccurate walt disney bio-pic. The teachers are intrigued and confused by what I'm trying to do, which is a plus because they're usually confused or don't care. One of the major problems with trying to make my film at school is that the teachers have this pre-conceived notion of how one is supposed to make their film school films. Their formula is like a mock indie film production. Indie films have tiny budgets, but school films have even tinier ones so it doesn't really make sense to me to try and replicate the process for the school films. One thing everyone is being pressured to do is to post casting calls on websites and have auditions in the city. It's useful to know how to do that stuff but my project is on an even smaller scale than that. My film is my own work, with my friends as actors, and my friends as crew and costume design. There is no member of my production that is being outsourced because i'm not going to try and play my film off as a standard yet indie professional semi-art film. My film is no budget and I have no desire to try and prove I'm a indie yet professional filmmaker. I'm just a person who wants to make their own film, take that as you may. So most of my film work at purchase has been very sneaky, I always feel like I'm trying to conceal the process I use to make my films because the teachers would not like it. Instead I try to be as vague as possible, let them walk all over me because they're confused, and then hope that when I show them my film at the end of the year their doubts will be washed away and they will understand. I know one thing that my teachers are not going to like is how I cast my 2 leads as people of the opposite sex in drag. They're going to think this is unnecessarily confusing. I'm actually considering never telling the teachers that the characters are in drag and just try to play it off as if they were normal. Last year hardly anyone could tell that the venus fly trap in bumbus was in drag. So wish me luck as I navigate my senior production class, hopefully the teachers will end up being supportive.