the trials of a film major

UGH. I HATE doing shot breakdowns (for those who aren't film majors, a shot breakdown goes: list the timecode/duration of each shot, and describe the focal length, composition, and content -- plus lighting and sometimes sound, in the case of this project). It can take hours to do a minute's worth of footage. And this project calls for the breakdown of a ten-minute segment of Blade Runner. I, of course, got stuck with the ten minutes in Sebastian's apartment that has two separate fight scenes (and thus waaaay more cuts; I think the most so far has been five in one second, but the average is about one or two per second), instead of the parts where Ridley Scott has long takes and not much camera movement. *grumblesigh* I'm still coming off being sick, and I just want to curl up under the comforter with spy TV shows instead of frame-advancing my way through a movie I've seen about fifteen times now.

No amount of close-up freeze-frames of Darryl Hannah's thighs, for the record, makes this any more enjoyable.

Is it Friday and/or Thanksgiving break yet?