The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was “The Little Mermaid” in 1989. Wow I was blown away. Ever since I’ve been in LOVE with movies. My parents would have to kick me out of the house to see the sun and interact with other kids. I would be glued to the television screen watching movies 24/7. It wasn’t until High School that I thought about making film as my career. I have the type of parents and grandparents that thought art wasn’t a feasible career and always tried to change my mind. BUT that wasn’t going to happen no matter what. Both of my parents views have changed over the years once they saw how dedicated I was to making my dreams come true.
I graduated in 2004 and moved to Minneapolis, MN I went to the Art Institutes International Minnesota for 4 semesters for Visual Effects. And it was ok BUT it wasn’t what I was looking for I really wanted to do editing so I moved home and I thought about going to a state school for awhile. And thats what I did I was working 35+ hrs a week and going to school full time at University of Wisconsin Fond du Lac. I HATED it there it was like being in high school all over again. so I transfered again after a couple semesters to Online classes at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco for EDITING. and I absolutely loved it and I had all of these plans to move out to San Francisco to start my new life (the city is AMAZING) but that all fell through when I started falling apart and my life had fallen apart right before my eyes. and I end up taking a year off and getting myself the help that I needed. and I opted not to go back to San Francisco because the past 18 months I have gotten really close to my family again and I’m started to grow up and I really want them to be in my life and being in San Francisco right now would tear me apart... So I took the next best thing Columbia College in Chicago for editing. and I totally love this school I’m not so much of a fan of Chicago, this city scares the shit out of me.. yikes No good!!! I do often wonder what it would be like if I would have just moved out to San Francisco instead of Chicago. Wonder how my life would be different, would like it? would I be more out going? ... I guess I’ll never know.
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I can relate to a lot of what your saying regarding initially not having the complete support of your family, and although I have only transfered once I do have somewhat of a feeling of what your talking about. The reason I transfered to Columbia was life was sooo very different at Purdue which is a great school in a cornfield but a complete contrast coming from Bombay a city of 20 million and nothing but skyscrapers. So far I'm enjoying everything Columbia has offered. I do hope to one day see your editing work, dunno If my band gets around to shooting a couple of more vids maybe I'll be in contact. And haha yea Chicago occasionally scares the shit outa me as well.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that your doing what you love. My parents were the same way and always thought art school wouldn't cut it in the real world for me someday, but they also saw how much I enjoyed what I was doing and they changed their mind.
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