Final Class Reflection

This class was a roller coaster for me. There were moments where I seriously considered dropping the class, and there were other moments where this was my favorite class. I definitely believe that my classmates contributed a lot to those good moments. Though I like working alone, I learned that having other people contribute to one project can create amazing work and it can be fun making them. I also learned that working with others is hard, especially due to the range of schedules and personal life activities. I have not made many experimental films before this semester, and doing so has made me grow in many ways. I have learned new editing hacks and techniques, and I have now worked with actual film. I learned that you can create mesmerizing films only using still images and sound which is something that I am definitely going to continue to explore. Because of this class, I have attended my first ever film festival which taught me a lot about being filmmaker and what it takes to reach that level. I have also grown in the sense that I made a few friends from this class that I would totally work with outside of school. It is important to have the option to work with a group, because sometimes that's just what a film requires. I still don't have my life figured out, I don't know exactly what I want to do but this class makes me want to go towards the experimental path because of the freedom you have to create art unlike any other. My biggest takeaway from this class is that I am a filmmaker. This class and the people in it, especially at the end of semester screening, gave me the confidence that I did not have before.