First of all, let this be a lesson that now that I'm in big boy school, I should be checking my gmail daily so as to avoid writing a mandatory blog 2 hours before class starts.
It was never a question for me whether or not I should be in RTF. If anything, I've fought to be here more than most of my peers. I've been obsessed with film since the 7th grade. For our end of the year English project we had to create a theme park where all the attractions were based in grammar. Me loving to be an outside thinker, as well as the main reason for my parent's stress lines, I decided to create a grammar based movie theater instead with each of my attractions being hilarious puns such as The Verbinator, Alien vs. Predicate, and Indianna Prose: Writer's of the Lost Article. Then, as the pièce de résistance, I would actually make one of movies advertised, Wordassic Park, a parody of the film our teacher used to introduce us to the project. Easier said then done. I knew nothing about making movies, I was working with my dad's very old camcorder, I was dragging my neighbors off the street to play major parts in the movie, I had my dog and cat play the majority of the dinosaurs/prehistoric words, everything had to be edited off of our VCR, it was just...a mess. And I never had so much fun in my life. Immediately I knew I had to look into this. What exactly went into making an actual quality film? My mom and I found these summer programs for the New York Film Academy, which I immediately signed up for. It was here where I met one of my best friends Brett Glassberg who would later go on to attend the University of Texas and tell me of the amazing opportunities it offered. This was roughly five years ago, and as each year has passed, my interest in cinema has intensified until this simple interest eventually became my obsession and passion.
When I was finally hearing from colleges, I only got accepted to two of the five I applied to: UT and Emerson. I was far more interested in UT but it turned out that I had been accepted as a Liberal Arts student as opposed to Communications. This made the decision difficult as Emerson was willing to let me be a film major, but my heart was in Austin. It was either embrace a sure thing, or take a chance on hopefully being able to transfer at UT. As I've repeatedly stated, film is my life and if I had to go four years without it that would be a pretty terrible college experience. During orientation week I went to visit the Dean of Communications just to see what exactly needed to be done to make transferring as likely as possible. The Dean told me all I had to do was write an essay that essentially answered the same question that is being asked by this blog post: Why do I want to be in RTF? So I told him my stories. I told him of the English Project and the New York Film Academy and Brett; essentially everything you see here in greater detail (I know, is that even possible? Wrap it up kid!) By the time I finished my shpiel he just sat there, looking at me for a moment and then asked, "What other colleges are you looking into?" I told him is was going to be either here or Emerson, to which he gave a snort of condescension and told me, "I'll put you into Communications."
I've never been the best student. I have a tendency to procrastinate that would make Spicoli look like Steve Jobs. But I'd like to think that it's my passion that's going to get me places in life, just like it got me into Communications all those months ago. I am in RTF 305 because of that passion, and it is my hope that it will only intensify because of my being here.
Favorite Blog:
http://www.slashfilm.com/
Best Movie I've Made (So Far) :
http://vimeo.com/6201078
*Sorry the Multimedia was so subtly integrated.
