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Cara Compass

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Yesterday I did the table read for my film with this brilliant bunch of actors who took a chance on me. I was so nervous and fully expecting to leave that room a bit down on myself and with a stack of changes to make and instead I am completely thrilled. The characters who have been in my head in some form or another for 10 years came to life in front of me. I went pages without a single note - and all my notes are easily actionable. It's time for next steps! by @cazc0mp

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happy 7 wonderful years @ben_alborough xxxxxxx by @cazc0mp

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4 months ago

BIG GOALS week 1!!

A bunch of miscellaneous things so here's a bit more on each of them
• I adore gameshows. I've always wanted to go on one. I also want to write like an encyclopedia of game shows. I most want to go on the 1% club
• just to be knowledgeable and interesting enough about something that people want to hear it!
• I've always wanted to learn an instrument (besides some trumpet lessons as a kid) and the pinnacle of this would be to play on a stage in some way. I'm most interested in piano then drums a close second
• in another life I would be a chef. I want to be taught. I want to make a cookbook - my current idea being one for the fodmap diet that markets itself as always being up to date - if the medical information changes, customers are sent the updated info rather than waiting for a new book!
• similar to the panel one!
• fodmap like the cooking point, ptsd wise I've had this idea for a while of making like 'the teenage girl's guide to ptsd', I think it is very important to destigmatise it
• eeeeeverything
• I want to keep budgets and overpay as much as I can so that those numbers aren't so big and scary
• I'd love to go to Italy! I'd love to go to Japan! I'm all food and scenery, please
C x by @cazc0mp

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5 months ago

BIG GOALS week 1!!

I want to look fit and feel fit!
Some of these are a bit intangible I know but I want to look and feel my best as much as possible. The outside validation on this would be some kind of company wanting me to model for them - not because I'm pretty or thin or whatever but because I am happy and confident enough to show off idk some lovely earrings or something. And I want to model for an art class! I think that'd be awesome. They internal side is I wanna feel healthy and strong and in control of my diet and exercise so I can run around (I do also have a heel spur rn so cannot run around) C x by @cazc0mp

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BIG GOALS week 1!!

I feel so so lucky to have a job that I love and that I worked really hard to get. I hope I'm here for absolutely ages. Alongside my career, I hope I get to explore some more things - ones I've done before (lighting programming/designing), ones I've dabbled in (publishing), and ones I've got no experience with at all (working with animals)

I also hope at some point in my life to be in a place with my finances and confidence in my career/skills that I can go freelance or part-time, but again, years away, very happy as I am

I'm not sure how to make a start on these goals really. Maybe I can volunteer at an animal shelter? Maybe I can write some short stories and pitch them around.

What other jobs are you interested in trying? C x by @cazc0mp

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BIG GOALS week 1!!

In 2016 (10 years ago what?!) I started writing a book, in 2017 I crowdfunded its release, in 2018 I released it, and in 2020 I started rewriting it in different formats before settling on a film. The last 2 years I've refined it over several drafts, talked loads about it, watched documentaries and read books on how to make films, and worked through a lot of internal uncertainty about how I want this thing to happen. What I realised last year was: the main thing is I want it to happen. So let's get on with it.

I want to raise funds for a tiny crew, do a premiere screening in a cinema with a dvd/blu ray release (even if just one copy! for me!), and I want to write a book and/or make a documentary about the experience (one big thing from reading books about low budget filmmaking is I havent found a recent book that follows the making of an actual film rather than just 'here's how you'd do it in theory'). I also read a book a few years ago that I think would make an incredible film and I keep thinking like, what if I just email the author and say that? What if I say it'd be scrappy and low budget and new but do you want to do this together? They would almost certainly say no, but there's no harm in that.

A thing on casting - Paul McGann is a very important person to me, he was very kind to me when I was a teenager and I wasn't able to be kind to myself. When I wrote the book, I asked him if I could give him a copy, he asked me to sign it (!) and the next time I saw him after that he told me he keeps my book on a shelf in his office that's above his desk, so he's facing it while he works. Even writing this now is making me want to cry!! It would mean the world to me to have any involvement at all from him. Whether that's an on-set acting role, a single voiceover line, whatever. I've had no response from contacting his agent twice and am not sure what to do next. Even if it's a no, I really want him to know that I'm making this, that it wouldn't exist without him, and to share a copy with him when it's done.

Also I want to have a cinema in my house.

C x by @cazc0mp

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BIG GOALS week 1!!

I want to be an artist! And I want to tell you more about that goal. I see an artist as a person who is able to come up with an idea and travel with it until it becomes a reality. A lot of the art I do now is recreations - like a cross-stitch version of a pre-existing image - and that's a hobby I'll always love, but isn't my #biggoal.

I am so inspired by other people's art I also want to inspire and teach people at some point in my life.

I'm actually not sure what sort of art I want to make, including the actual format of it. Am I a painter? A sculptor? A graffiti artist? A clothes designer? A quilter? A stop motion artist? I don't know! How do I find out?! I know I'm not really interested in realism. I like big colours. I like expressive lines. I like little funny and sweet cartoons just as much as I like interactive clothing and fan art and paintings.

Do you make art? How do you think I can find my inner artist? C x by @cazc0mp

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Last night, my partner took this photo of me reading out a list of purposefully big, silly, and positively delusional life goals to my best friends. I'm sharing them here. These are the big ideas I'm going to sink my teeth in to for the foreseeable future. I'd love to hear your wild goals too. by @cazc0mp

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