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Screenwriting
Sunday, December 14, 2008 @ 3:16 AM

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. - Yiddish proverb

I know it's overly ambitious and probably impossible, but I was in a state of serious-confusion-about-my-future again, so I started looking through possible courses. So far, I had outlined five.

1. European studies - Is a United Nations diplomat possible?
2. Journalism - I'll go to Zimbabwe and see what Mugabe's up to.
3. Medicine - Only because my dad and sister suggested.
4. Law - HAHA, no way. But I thought about it because of my mom.
5. English literature - ... but what am I gonna do with that anyway?

So then, I pretty much had given up: I had no future. (HAHA, okay. That's exaggerating. I probably would have decided to take up some general course like economics or something before I would seriously decide.) But then after a few minutes, I looked at that lengthy "About Me" section of my blog and I saw the word "screenwriting".

So then I thought: Huh, not bad. Screenwriting didn't compromise my love of writing, and it would give me the opportunity to explore film art. (Oh I do love the movies.) Plus, it wasn't all words. It had some mechanical technicality to it - good for me, since I'm not all stylistics and the likes of it. And I don't think screenwriter is as lengthy as novelist or something. It might - might - be kind of easier.

So then I checked the websites of Ateneo and La Salle for screenwriting courses. Um, none. They don't even have journalism. Again, I felt like giving up. Again, no future. But as if like lightning, another spark of ambition ran into my mushy brain. I remembered something. It was called the University of the Arts.

... in Philadelphia.

And they totally had it: A major program in Writing for Film and Television. They had great preps. Courses like film history, video production, screenplay analysis, screenplay adaptations, and eventually a senior internship for media.

But not that it's bad enough this tempting major is in UARTS Philadelphia across the freaking Pacific Ocean, paying for a college education in UARTS would be like my father buying me five Audis, costing 45 fucking thousand dollars a year. That's way more than two million pesos if you include some allowance and estimate. So then I've got four Audis; the fifth one is for my personal expenses like my house or apartment or condo or whatever, and my food and transportation and all that.

BUT NOT LIKE MONEY MAKES THIS THING WORST - I am actually and seriously considering this. I am completely serious about being a screenwriter - hard to make some money out of it, I'm sure, but it's seems so... me. It seems like a "me" kind of career, "me" kind of lifestyle, and... well, I really want to pursue it.

So I am seriously dropping everyone off my Christmas list now. I'm saving up for college.