RTF: A long time dream, hoping to become reality

On December 25th, 1999, I bolted downstairs after waking up, to find that the number one item on my Christmas list was waiting for me under the tree. This number one item was the Lego Studios set in which they gave you a cheap $10 webcam and a couple of cheap plastic parts to assemble into a tiny movie studio. It was at this moment that my seven year old self wanted to become a movie director. I got straight to work making little stop motion movies out of my Legos. When we had company over, I converted our computer room into a movie theater, charging people for tickets before they could watch (something that I just recently found out Spielberg did as well, so that's pretty encouraging!). After a couple of years, the Legos stopped being the star actors in my films, and I worked more in video production/editing in school. My resurgence into the directing portion of my hobby came in my Sophomore year of High School, in which my Humanities class did a film project at the end of the year. Our group's movie, "Gone", won Best Picture, Best Direction (myself), Best Editing (also myself), and Best Supporting Actor (again...myself) in the little mock awards ceremony that the teachers did. I really put a lot of work into it and loved doing it, even though I can't tell you how many times I wanted to throw my computer monitor out the window when my editing program crashed at 3 in the morning. When entering college I applied for the school of Engineering. I am good at both math and science, so I felt Engineering was the safest bet. As I began to look back on what I loved to do, however; I realized that while going into RTF may not be as safe an engineering, or as easy to succeed in, I loved doing it. I could see myself becoming a film director, and I am now hard set on doing that by changing my major to RTF. In this class, I hope to even further develop myself to become a better director, and learn everything I need to pursue that as a career.

Anyways, I thought I should share one of my inspirations for filmmaking, in the form of my favorite movie scene of all time  which is from Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey":

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