Welcome

Hello again! This shiny new blog is to record my progress in my new film making project!
I'm in my third and final year of university now and it's a big storm of excitment and utter fear. 2 years ago, I started this Creative Writing course because writing was the only thing I was good at. My old dream of being an environmental scientist was squashed when I got terrible grades in science. Back then, I would never have considered that I could actually make a film. Like most things in life, it was something that other people did and I could complain about because I had no idea what it was like. I didn't realise that a module called 'Film studies' actually meant making a film, but once I did it I realised I loved it. Finally, I had an idea of what I wanted to do after university, rather than sitting at home writing novels in the dark.
Since then, I've worked on a couple of films (which you can read about in my Making a Film) blog and tried to make my own fan parody series, which unfortunatly is left on the back burner with all my uni work. When the last film I worked on won second place at a screening, I knew I had to make more films. Ok that's a lie, I wanted to make more films and I had confirmation that I was good at it!
So I took the Creative Enterprise module so I could improve my film making skills. But as I've found out, I won't be marked on making the film but on getting it out there.
I knew all along that I wanted to make a film with the theme of long distance relationships. It's something very important in my life and something I know a lot about. I've been with my boyfriend for 4 years now and it'll be at least another year before he can move to England. I've seen other students lose their boyfriends and girlfriends because they couldn't handle the sudden distance between them. This is why I want to make this film- To assure people that these relationships are ok and that they can last as long as you truely love and trust each other.
Right now I'm still in the planning stages, figuring out what festivals to submit to and how I'm going to get this film made. I've worked on a documentary before but this is the first time I've been a director. I really have no clue how to make a documentary. Does it need a script or not? Do I just record lots of fottage and bung the best bits together? This is all stuff I need to be learning and I'm constantly worrying that I'm too far behind.
But film making is full of stuff like that and unless you totally give up, it does work out at the end. So I'll make regular posts about my progress here and show how the film will develop from a spark of an idea to a (hopefully) very successful short.