movies

This Jan Term has been all about the movies. My class, Lone Star Estrella, is a film class. Four hours a day, five days a week, I have been watching and discussing Mexican and Texas movies. We've seen everything from Vamaonos con Poncho Villa (a story about six friends who join Poncho Villa during the Mexican revolution), to Pigskin Parade (a musical about cowboys playing football). Throw in a few Mexican singing cowboy movies, a couple "fallen women", and a little Clark Gable and John Wayne and you've pretty much summed up the course. 

(Pigskin Parade has been my favorite so far. Here's a reason why....)

Not only have I been watching movies the past two weeks, but I've also had the opportunity to be IN a movie.You see a group of theater students here at AC have been busy making a student written, acted, and filmed movie. A couple of my friends had gotten involved and last Friday night, as we were  watching Tangled, they informed the rest of us that the scene that they were planning to shoot the following morning called for a number of extras and asked if we would be interested. It sounded fun and with nothing better to do, I agreed.  So after going to bed unreasonably late, I got up unreasonably early to go be in this movie.

COOL! So what's this movie about Alena? 
Ah, well, about that.... I'm not really sure. But best I can tell it's a space western about a town that is invaded by hooligans who proceed to enslave the townspeople. I think that what we filmed Saturday morning was the first part of the ''slave rebellion".  

As an extra, extra I still don't know exactly what was going on, or where my scene falls in the overall  storyline, but I do know that this movie is a sequel. That video is about 30 minutes long and I enjoyed because a lot of the people in it are also in choir with me. (If you'd like to watch this video click here.)


When the final product is finished, I'll let you all know. :)