Filmmaking Personal Statement

I have made a contribution to the AVID program by spreading all the wonderful things AVID teaches you to my friends and relatives also how it can change your life positively. I have spoken with many friends as to why they should be considering the AVID program in high school in order for them to gain knowledge and learn important college factors so that when they move on they won’t have a difficult time in college. This contribution may not seem as much but I have also tried my hardest to earn a good grade for all the years that I have been taken AVID not only for a grade in the class but for others to see what I have learned throughout all the years that I have been in AVID program and what it can do to improve high school students who want to attend college and become successful trying to reach their goals and dreams.

Pursing a career as a medical doctor is an opportunity for me to mentor youth in underserved populations. As a child, I was raised in the low income, urban community of Roxbury, MA. Although not as notorious today, the neighborhood had garnered negative attention for its high crime rates. My mother emigrated from Haiti and raised me as a single parent. Due to our financial circumstance, Roxbury became our permanent residence. I have always felt there was something lacking in Roxbury in comparison to other towns I visited. My teenage years were largely spent in the suburban town of Stoneham where I attended high school. There was a literal difference in air quality and a psychology contrast in future prospects. While native students of

Coming from a Latino household, I’ve learned that anything is achievable – there are no walls nor boundaries to stop me from reaching my goals. Whenever it came to achieving something in school, I could hear my father’s words “si se puede” – meaning “you can do it” – playing in my head. So long as I believed I could excel and go beyond in my studies, I felt that I could open doors of opportunities for myself.

My parents grew up in families with little parental direction. Attending school, overcoming adversity, getting a job and becoming successful were up to their own making. Although my parents did not go to college, they took advantage of other opportunities to better their lives so that my siblings and I would be able to attend universities. They worked hard to get jobs even without college degrees, and then worked harder to maintain those jobs; subsequently, this furthered their positions in their workplaces. By setting an example of making the most of what life has to offer, they influenced me to seize every opportunity that crosses my path. Going to college was not an opportunity my parents could take advantage of, but it is one that I can.

During high school I decided that I wanted to be part of a program that would guide me to be able to attend college . I didn't really know that much about the AVID program, I only knew that it would help me when I applied to college. Now being in AVID for four years I now know that it is more than just that. AVID has given me many opportunities. It has motivated me to take AP and other College classes, something I might not have done if I wasn’t in AVID.

“The first step towards becoming a filmmaker is to earn a bachelor 's and/or master’s degree” (Study, 2017). Obtaining a degree will give the education I need to start on my path to making films. Utilizing the knowledge of storytelling, storyboarding, hiring the crew and equipment, to create a short or feature film.

JB: For me, filmmaking began with picking up a friend’s camcorder the first time and simply starting to make movies. It was one Saturday a long time ago, I think I was thirteen. From that moment on, I knew there was no other option, and aside from some part-time

I wanted not only to watch films, but to learn about them. I wanted to surround myself with film, I wanted to read about it, write about it, hear about it. I had this craving to apply these onscreen visions to my everyday life, and slowing I began to do so. I began to read magazines like Variety and Entertainment Weekly where I tried to understand their views on cinema and what made a movie a hit or miss. Soon I found myself critiquing everyone movie I sat down and watched. I traveled back in time and transported myself to the world of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, in hopes that their movies would show the foundation of cinema that seemed to be hidden by all the glitz and glam of today's Hollywood. I opened up to different genres of film and found some of my favorite movies to be of the foreign film category. I based many school projects on the history of cinema such as Hollywood’s Effect on The Great Depression, or the importance of Cult Classic films. Pretty quickly I realized my archive of film knowledge surpassed anything Blockbuster ever would have been capable

My Producer is Phuc Tran . He is my older brother. He is influential to me because he motivate me to be better than he is. He force me to challenge myself, which cause me to go beyond my limits and try harder than usual

When I was a junior, I was very busy with two jobs, sports, and tough classes. Going from pre-calculus, to Honors English 11, to college biology, and then to U.S. history, left my brain is fried. After my classes were over, I would leave school and head to one job as a photography assistant. After work, I would attend either football or wrestling practice as a student manager. After practice I had a half an hour to sneak a quick meal in before I headed to my second job as a certified nursing assistant. I would get off at 9:00 or maybe later depending on the staff present. Physically and mentally exhausted, I would get home and attempt to start my homework. The time it took to finish homework varied depending on the amount, but on average I

I want to be a part of Arts 360 because I believe this will allow me to greater understand, and expand my understandings and opportunities in the art field. I find my love of art to continually grow as I experience and learn more about various aspects of the field. I want to grow in my understandings of arts administration. I would like the exposure to see the various jobs and tasks that are within arts related fields. I really want the opportunity to network with people from diverse artists and creators. Also, I love that this program will allow me to meet other peers who share a love and appreciation of the arts. The art field is so competitive, so to join a group where everyone wants to succeed at their craft is

It has always been one of the largest parts of my life, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve learned to manage it, make it work for me, and how to work with it best for my needs. I’ve been shaped by the media I and the people around me consume, and I’ve worked to try and make media with technology that would please those people. From my youngest and most formative moments, to this very day, I have existed in this kind of world. Because of this, I’ve been planning to go to film school for some time to broaden my horizons. I hope to gain experience and meet interesting people to work with. Working at a professional level has always been a dream of mine, whether that be by myself or with others as part of a studio. At the end of the day I want to do the highest quality work according to my ability, and to know that my work has entertained

Personal Statement As an aspiring film and game music scorer, I wish to study in an environment where I could meet like-minded students. Ever since I was young, I had affection for video games as well as video game soundtracks. I find it fascinating that music can play an integral role in bringing the players into a world of its own, putting me into the shoes of the characters themselves. This source of connection creates alternate universes for the audience is something that makes me greatly admire the composers and creators of video games. UCLA has one of the best film and videogame scoring programs in the world, and I wish to be part of that.

Artist, textile designer, poet and novelist, William Morris, whose literary works helped to develop the genre of fantasy, once stated: “I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” In other words, art cannot exist in a vacuum. It is imperative to the success of an artist to be able to express and share their work with others. What is the purpose of creating a motion picture if not to present it in front of as many eyes and brains as possible? Despite film students learning both the theory and practical methods of creating narrative films in the ASU curriculum, the biggest screen most students can ever hope to see their work on is a Mac screen. This is a nail in the coffin regarding future careers, because students never learn how to create with the intent of presenting their product on the big screen. A minor error on a computer screen may increase ten-fold when stretched to forty feet of 16:9 glory. Professional writer/director David Lynch (best known for Elephant Man (1980)) once commented that people who watch films on small screens “will never in a trillion years experience the film...you'll be cheated” (Douglas). ASU’s film curriculum is cheating students out of experiencing their work in a way

I always wanted to be a filmmaker. I dreamt about my own productions, writing my on scripts, selecting the casting, looking for the wardrobe, and creating stories which people could watch and see themselves reflected on it, pieces in which they can feel the intensity of life and a cornucopia of emotions that keep you alive; but, I had to realize that I am a woman, from a country in development which does not provide sources and opportunities for people like me, back in the late 90s, who saw cinema as decent way of living and paying for expenses. My parents had a very hard conversation with me when I told them my intentions to study film production. My mom looked at me and said “that is not a career for a woman", my father supported what