Business of film Reflection
“I’m just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe” — Jango Fett (Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Dir. George Lucas) When I started up my film MFA at Full Sail in January 2020, I had certain expectations for my 2020, but I didn’t know many specifics, and I certainly didn’t…
FPT3 Post-Production Reflection
As an aspiring video editor, Post-Production was obviously a class I’ve been looking forward to since I got to Full Sail in January. Back when I made my goals for each class in Mastery I only had a rough idea of what I would be doing in each class, so my goals were a bit…
Reflections on Cinema
by Anthony Dorsey As a beginning filmmaker, it is important to be able to make your movie look the best it possibly can without breaking the bank. Robert Rodriguez understands this better than most and certainly better than I and others I know personally have done in practice. As Rodriguez described in the two short…
Movie Review: The New Mutants (2020) Dir. Josh Boone
As a comic book fan, I was starting to think this movie was never going to release. It has been constantly delayed since its original date in 2018 and when COVID-19 struck I was sure it would just be dropped on Disney+ or another streaming service. That is not the case. For the first movie…
Experimental Filmmaking
I think starting this class I started to get excited again as I was before I was starting at Full Sail. The last couple months during lockdown have really demoralized me, my classmate, and to an extant the professors. Now that the re-opening has begun (too soon, in my opinion, but that a whole other…
Story Development For Film
Another class at Full Sail down and so is another month of quarantine. Like last month this class was entirely online and I feel like this class was hit much differently than the last one. In Directing Talent, it was clear from the get-go that the class structure was gutted by the removal of on-campus…
Directing Talent Reflection
So, going into this class I knew I’d be experiencing like basically no one has before my in the master’s program at Full Sail due to the class being moved entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I was right. Sadly, I feel like this class lost a lot due to this change as otherwise…
The Neighbor’s Window
The other night I watched the 2020 Academy Award-winning short film, The Neighbor’s Window (Curry, 2019). The basic premise of the short is a mother who is growing bored with her monotonous life starts spying on her neighbor’s through their open window and gets more than a peek into their lives. The short’s main theme was other…
An Inspiration
“Men are still good. We fight, we kill, we betray one another, but we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.” -Bruce Wayne (Roven, 2016) This quote from one of my favorite movies, “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice,” has inspired me ever since I first watched the movie in 2016.…
An Inspiration
This song by my favorite rock band, Breaking Benjamin, inspired me this week when I was feeling down as, even though I have listened to this song many times, I paid more attention to the lyrics and they really spoke to me more than usual. “Stripped away, we rise above it all, forgotten and betrayed.…
Are you on LinkedIn? Looking to get a job? Then you should sign up for LinkedIn. I’ve had it for a while and, while it isn’t my most used social media, it’s still a great resource for connecting with people in different industries and it is definitely the most professional social media I have ever…
Feedly
I hadn’t heard of Feedly until today, but it seems like a great resource to gather all the different feeds I look at in a day. It especially interests me that if I were to upgrade to a paid plan I can add in Twitter feeds which would help me cut down on the nonsense…
An Inspiration
“The greatest teacher, failure is.” -Yoda (Kennedy, 2017) Of all the great quotes from recent movies, this quote from one of my favorite movies of the last few years, “Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi,” has stuck with me more than any other and whenever I feel like a failure I remember this quote…
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