‘Just one hour of this and you can go back to sleep’ was the phrase I groggily repeated to myself as I got ready to register for my freshman year of high school. Had I known that the mountain of paperwork I was about to fill out that late July morning would ultimately lead to me finding my passion, I would have definitely been a lot more enthusiastic.
I traded all my information for my schedule, only to realize that there was one slight problem: P.E. was on my list of courses for the year. Physical education? I sought out my counselor immediately to fix this quandary. She searched for other electives that still had room remaining and I was offered just two choices: Theatre I or Intro to Media Technology. I had taken theatre classes before; …show more content…
Yet, I soon discovered that coming up with a film idea is easy, but having it come to life is the hard part. More often than not, projects would go wrong and some would have to be scrapped entirely. Scrapping was always thoroughly disheartening for me because, in a sense, it felt like trying to bake cookies and pulling lumps of coal out of the oven. Nonetheless, I evaluated what went wrong, made the needed adjustments as well as additional tweaks, and started over. After time and time again, scrapping proved to be the best thing I could’ve done for the sake of the project.
In the later half of that year, I found that I had a knack for editing, which was unusual due to the fact that I didn’t really have a knack for anything. Editing clicked with me in the same way that learning to walk did as an infant: it just felt natural. Undeniably, editing was a test of patience, and with my diligence, it was one I was able to pass with flying colors. I enjoyed (and still enjoy) editing because it was the process of turning a vision into a reality; a process that I could see myself doing for countless years to
I traded all my information for my schedule, only to realize that there was one slight problem: P.E. was on my list of courses for the year. Physical education? I sought out my counselor immediately to fix this quandary. She searched for other electives that still had room remaining and I was offered just two choices: Theatre I or Intro to Media Technology. I had taken theatre classes before; …show more content…
Yet, I soon discovered that coming up with a film idea is easy, but having it come to life is the hard part. More often than not, projects would go wrong and some would have to be scrapped entirely. Scrapping was always thoroughly disheartening for me because, in a sense, it felt like trying to bake cookies and pulling lumps of coal out of the oven. Nonetheless, I evaluated what went wrong, made the needed adjustments as well as additional tweaks, and started over. After time and time again, scrapping proved to be the best thing I could’ve done for the sake of the project.
In the later half of that year, I found that I had a knack for editing, which was unusual due to the fact that I didn’t really have a knack for anything. Editing clicked with me in the same way that learning to walk did as an infant: it just felt natural. Undeniably, editing was a test of patience, and with my diligence, it was one I was able to pass with flying colors. I enjoyed (and still enjoy) editing because it was the process of turning a vision into a reality; a process that I could see myself doing for countless years to