What Does My Life Mean To Me

Being a writer and director are challenging positions. A writer and director must be in-tune with their audience in order to capture

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

My other field of interest is “Theatre.” I love to tell stories, to feel, to

Since the age of nine, I 've had a dream of becoming a screenwriter, and a movie producer. Where others only want to see a show or a movie, I have always wanted to be behind the scenes in the creation of the art. Being behind the scene and being involved in the creation of the film has always fascinated me.

Along with the mission statement of LMU, The School of Film and Television makes LMU highly attractive. It is ranked among the top film schools in the nation every year and classes are taught by award-winning faculty. I am choosing LMU for its Production (Film and Television) major. As long as I can remember, I have been a filmmaker. I was unusually shy as a child and film became my way to communicate. Writing and filming gave me the confidence I needed to break out of my shell and run after life instead of away from it. Because film has been such an integral part of my life and has blessed me greatly, choosing any profession other than filmmaking would be to give up who I am. Out of my shyness and anxiety as a child, I found a way to communicate with the world; I found a new love, I found my passion, I found film. With this, I believe that The School of Film and Television contains all of the resources that I am looking for. When students who have a deep passion for filmmaking and telling stories come together, unbelievable breakthroughs happen. I hope to be part of this. As an aspiring filmmaker, knowing that at LMU I will learn about all aspects of film excites

Any successful film, whether a six second Vine, a Twitter attachment, or a multi-million dollar episodic television series demands a unique blend of logic and emotion, of skill and creativity. And experience matters.

As I entered high school and the time of deciding a legitimate career path neared, I was unsure which job I should pick. I still wanted to be both an author and an actress. It wasn’t until my junior year that I was introduced to the art of animation. I had finally found a career path that allowed me to channel both my love for creating characters and writing stories through drawings.

By participating in Chapman University's MFA in Film Production with an emphasis in Directing, I desire to take my craft to a new level. I know at Chapman, I will not only better my craft at a technical level, but I will also improve my storytelling abilities. I will take full advantage of both. During my time at Chapman, I hope to gain personal and professional relationships by not only actively participating in this program,

Hello, I’m Gage Welch and to be completely honest I’ve been procrastinating quite a bit on getting this essay done. It’s not that I don’t care about my future, in fact it’s quite the opposite. It’s simply because I’m thinking too much about my film that I’m currently working on. Film is what I love to do and what I love to think about. I’m absolutely certain that my future will involve film. Since I got my first video camera it has become a huge part of me.

Turn on the lights, press the red button, and follow the action. Film class has boomed with ecstatic creativity. With New projects aloft and deadlines to meet, ideas erupted.

I'm submitting my application for your consideration to be accepted for the WB Emerging Directors Workshop, The reason why I'm submitting is because every since I was a child and growing up on movies directed by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Fincher, James Cameron, Shane Black, Ridley Scott, John Lassener, and JJ Abrams. I was inspired to make movies, during my child hood I would play with Lego's and other toy's and film my own short films with my parent's old camcorder. When I was 16 I was saving my money by working minimum wage at the awesome rate of $6.50 an hour by working at an AMC movie theater back in Arizona and would watch as many movies as I could for free! However I wasn't saving money for a car like most

Since my childhood, I have been intrigued by the unique art of moviemaking that can portray emotions and feelings that takes a thousand words to express. Getting the chance to assist my mom, when she directed the short movie “The Unconditional Love,” funded by Telus Storyhive had been a remarkable experience for me. The experience of being a vital member of the crew taught me the diverse techniques of filmmaking, including everything from screenplay and direction in pre-production to lighting, sound, and cinematography in production to editing and social media advertising in post-production. The exposure to the distinctive short movie industry, also, allowed me to learn the fundamental lessons of step-by-step development of a project and successful

When the senior project was first assigned, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do. I wanted to become an actor or producer in film and maybe become a screenplay writer. I thought about directing a play, but a bunch of other theater kids wanted to do the same thing. I wanted to do something that stood out more and had to do with film. That's when I decided to make a movie. I could find out how the production of a movie works which would help in the future if I went into the film industry. I wasn’t sure who was going to be my mentor. I didn’t really know anyone who had experience in movie making. I soon found Pam Davenport, who had directed many plays and took a film class at Universal Studios. Once I got a mentor and I knew that we were going through with the movie, I needed to figure out what the film was going to be about. I eventually got an idea called “The Dream Zone” which is about a teenage boy who gets hit by a

As a future filmmaker, it would be important for me that anything I work has a aspect of it that I personally connect with. I would also like to work on projects that I believe would also be

Writing has always played a huge role in my life. I’ve been reading writing for as long as I can remember as I have an immense love of reading. This love would grow into a love for writing as well; I still stumble upon journals and writings from my five-year-old self about the happenings in my kindergarten class. As time would go on I would discover academic writing, and how to convey my thoughts on what was the topic of student that particular year or semester in my schooling. Later, writing would become a constant for me, and a comfort; I was known to my friends as always having a journal, and a pen on my person. I learned to write down my feelings and my thoughts, song lyrics that were in my head, reflections for the day. I learned how