I'm done. As I'm writing this, both my CCRs have been uploading to my drive.
This project has been the most stressful, fun, agonizing, and liberating project I have ever done. It feels so absurd that it's over, it's like seeing your child leave for college except your child is an amateurly made film opening and you've only been working on it for maybe three months. Maybe that isn't the best analogy.
Sophomore year is my most overwhelming year, so far. I took four AICE classes and three honors this year just because I wanted bona fide proof that I was smart and capable. Taking difficult classes meant, at least to me, that I was challenging myself and coercing myself to do something hard that required cognitive function. I never planned to take four, and I never expected AICE Media Studies to be the class that took up 99% of my time. But I'm grateful it did. It's a breath of fresh air to try a new medium of storytelling and art creation. I've become so accustomed to working alone and locking myself in a room until I finished my artwork that I never allowed myself to work with other people and collaborate creatively. In this class I went out of my comfort zone—well, I actually did the same thing, but at least I wasn't by myself, it's a start. That was my main goal this year, to branch out. This project, and class in general was a rigorous creative exercise that I feel like I needed.
I was consumed by A Major Flat. I have never done a project like this before, the only ever "film" I made was a thirty-two second animation of my favorite song last year. There were times where I felt my creative mind being stretched thin and I couldn't bring myself to open up a word document and type more than two words about whatever I worked on that week. Oftentimes, I always felt that I never wrote enough, or whether what I wrote actually provided any significant information. I would finish them at unearthly hours then text my classmates asking if my blogs were good enough. My blogs would be written once everyday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Sometimes I would leave them lacking and unfinished only to force myself to edit them a few days later.
A Major Flat was also an awesome experience. Being around other creatives made me feel less alone and improved my overall mood throughout the creation of this project. I never thought I would pursue anything related to film or production. After this project...I still don't think I will. My strengths lie in creative work, and film is a medium I am fascinated by, however I think I'll stick to drawing. If I were to go into production as a career, I would work strictly on visuals or maybe storytelling (cinematography, storyboarding, writing, etc.) Film is probably the most expensive hobby I will have if I don't pursue it as a career.
My Creative Critical Reflections were their own pleasant nightmares. It took two days and an all-nighter to finish editing my podcast, and two more all-nighters to edit my second video. I originally did not give myself any time to finish my CCRs when my partner and I drafted the schedule, so if anything this is on me. But I am extremely proud of them. My podcast especially, I seriously believe that I was able to answer the questions (mostly) during the time I had. Also my second video, where I was able to cut down twenty-eight minutes of footage into 6.5 minutes.
I am sincerely grateful to be apart of this class, and I'm so happy I received it as one my electives.
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