1) What were your thoughts about your research topic going into the first week of the semester?
Going into the first week of the semester, I was very nervous about how to execute my topic just because all summer long I was playing with so many different ideas that came the semester, I still had no clue where to take my project.
2) What are your thoughts now about your research topic and your project/practicum?
To be quite Frank, I’m still quite a bit nervous about my execution because although there is a certain pattern to how Korean film is portrayed, I just hope I did a good job executing that in my short film.
3) What did you learn about yourself as a creative through this journey?
The thing I learned about myself is how much of an overthinker I am and how detrimental it can be to my performance and mentality because I suddenly get tunnel visioned into fixing all of the red when there’s blue, green, and yellow to still be worked on.
4) What did you learn about the creative and production process?
I learned that punting ideas may come normal and to not be so fixed on a set composition because you never know what can happen throughout the entirety of the process.
5) What advice would you give new senior capstone students?
The advice I’d give to new senior capstone students is to not get stuck in one area! If that section of your project isn’t working out, there’s probably another part of the project that can be worked on whether that be color correcting, audio, even the actual edit. Overall, make sure to take a look at the project as a whole and not just one little snippet.
6) Where to now?
I’ll be looking towards a direction in producing because this project taught me that although I love filmmaking, I just don’t think it’s my thing to script-write and that’s a huge part of being a filmmaker.