Visiting LA - the first week

It feels like an essential part of a film student's existence to make a trip to Los Angeles CA. It never really was on my radar. The prices too high, and the fear of falling in love too much of a risk. This summer though, I took up a position as a film TA at a summer camp located in an LA College. This has eliminated only the first of those problems. The second was a reality that only seems to be growing as an issue the longer that I stay here.

Along with my growing admiration for the area, each time that I talk to someone and mention my role as an editor I am only reminded more of the positive job availability of an editor. And listing my experience doing DIT work only results in more confidence from the person I'm talking to, and then more confidence from me.

I told my family before I left home that I'll see them in two months, that it won't be long at all. The summer will fly by and my curiosity of the LA lifestyle will be settled, and a realist picture of the city painted in my mind along with no desire to come back. I wonder if my mom knew that this trip would foresee a future for cross country travel for me.

Anyway, with the way of the world, I will be heading back to PA. I will be spending the money on a plane ticket home. Traveling southwest on a 5 hour flight to probably BWI. Then spending the rest of the summer, and realistically the next year, in my parents house. To not let myself go crazy I have creative plans for the next year. Projects that I can produce as a one, maybe two, person team. But, I will keep in the back of my mind the west coast, and the life I can build for myself out here as a creative.

I will update at the end of this summer, right as I leave the LA area for home. To give my final views and plans. Keep a lookout.