Career Plans and Discovery Project

When I first found out that one of our assignments for Art & Creativity, I wasn't exactly thrilled. Blogging is not something that I have much experience in, and having my personal life visible on the internet was not something I was totally comfortable with; but then I realized that this would be a great opportunity to get my name out there in the industry and have an outlet to showcase some of  my work.

I came to VFS with the dream of becoming a film director and producer, and while that is still my ultimate goal, I have pretty much decided that I want to begin my career as an editor. Before VFS I had some experience in editing through film courses in high school and I was comfortable with the Adobe Premiere software, but my Editing class in Term 2 is what really peaked my interest. It's a tedious process that requires a lot of patience and many of the instructors here have said that if you are OCD or a perfectionist, which describes me exactly, than editing is the perfect field to work in. So while the dream of becoming a successful director/producer is still the thing that drives me, my short term plan is to do editing for feature films and movie trailers as a foray into the film industry. 

My plan is to use this blog as way to keep track of different projects that I'm working on for school, starting with my discovery project. My first idea for this project was to write the script for my final short-film that would be screened at gradution because I wanted to get as much of a head start on my final as I could so that I wouldn't be pressed for time in Terms 4, 5, and 6. But trying to lock down a storyline for such an important project in a matter of a week was easier said than done, so I decided to go in a completely different direction and do a combination 2D animation and motion graphics piece using Illustrator, After Effects, and Flash. I don't have any experience in animation but it is something that interests me and I wanted to do something completely unrelated to live action filmmaking.

I wanted to work with motion graphics because since day one at VFS I've had the idea of creating my own font and animating it to use for the opening and closing credits of my final short-film, which is mostly inspired from a lot of independent movies that I've seen where this is used, and I wanted to use this project to learn how to do it. I'm still in the early stages of my project; right now I'm working on the character design and storyboard, which I'll post upon completion.