MCOM 320 Introduction

Hi there. My name is Nick Dixon and I’m honestly not really much of a blogger, which is why I’m recycling a blog from a previous class to do this assignment. I may not be much of a blogger, but that doesn’t mean I won’t have a little bit of fun with this assignment. I honestly don’t anticipate I’ll blog after school requires me to do it, but I can honestly say that I don’t hate blogging in the slightest. I just don’t necessarily get it either. But maybe I will after writing a blog consistently this semester! You’ll notice that this blog post is about a month late. There’s a sort-of-good-but-not-really excuse behind that, which segues beautifully to the subject that I’ll be devoting this blog to: my film life. January 14 was the deadline for a draft of my capstone film, Without a Rope. It’s a 20-minute piece about two brothers. Porter, the older brother, is an experienced rock climber, while Rick struggles living up to the example his brother sets. When they get in a plane crash on the way home from a climbing trip, Rick has to decide between waiting in safety to get found and climbing out of the valley (without a rope) to save his brother before he bleeds to death. To prove that I’m not just blowing smoke up your skirt, here are a few screenshots of the film. We’ve been working on it since the submission so we can submit an even better version if we make the first cut. Hopefully I’ll be writing more about this in future posts!