Saturday, October 29, 2016

Found My Passion

Junior year I took this class called Digital Design.  Basically, it was a class where we learned how to write scripts, create storyboards, perfect camera shots, and edit.  It was one of my favorite classes that I’ve ever taken.  Junior year was also the year that we were to start thinking about colleges and what we wanted to do with our lives, or what we wanted to major in. 

I will tell you right now, I hated the word ‘college’ or ‘major’ or anything like that.  Here’s why. I had no idea what the heck I wanted to do with my life.  It was frustrating.  All my friends knew exactly where they wanted to go, what they wanted to major in, and had their favorite college that they were about to try to get into, all that stuff.

When I had to think about what I wanted to do after high school, I basically had the mindset of, what do I like to do?  What are my interests?  So, I thought back on Digital Design and how fun of a class that was, and I was like, ok, I enjoy every aspect of this class.  Brainstorming, creating, doing, editing, everything.  So that’s how I found Huntington.

Last week in my production class we had a simple assignment of editing a bunch of Ted Cruz footage together to make a campaign video.  (I’m on topic guys stay with me).  I hadn’t edited anything in quite a while, it hadn’t been since May I think, in my Mass Media class.  Anyway, my partner and I got to editing, and just to fast forward a bit, we finally got something we could work with, and I don’t know if anyone else gets this feeling, but I got that feeling inside where I was just excited about what we created.

I will admit this 100 times a day:  I might not create the best, most perfect thing ever in the world.  Our campaign video probably isn’t the best one in the class.  That’s not the point.  I like creating things that I enjoy, that I am happy with.  If other people are happy with it too, awesome.  If I’m happy with it, that’s all that matters. 

I don’t know if I want to be behind a camera, in a director’s chair, in an editor’s chair, or what.   I just know I enjoy doing this.

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