The Art of Film Making is My Passion

I recently took a trip down to Tennessee with my family over the summer. This was our first time going down to Tennessee, and also our first time going this far down south. We rented a giant log cabin high in the hills in Wears Valley. On this cabin, there was a long, wrap-around porch on the second floor, with an incredible view of the top of the mountains in the distance. It was a fantastic trip, and I wanted to bring the whole thing home with me, so I did. My parents brought our video camera, and, me, being a film major, ferociously volunteered to be the cameraman for the duration of the trip. The setting of Tennessee was almost perfect for filming, because it is mostly rolling hills and vistas and open valleys. Every morning I would wake up after the sun’s rays would pour into my bedroom and head out into the miles of land surrounding our cabin on the hills. I wandered and explored, with my camera in hand, taking in the crisp smell of the Tennessee morning air. I hiked until I found a family of deer. They were very large, and their brown fur looked lush and colorful. The swarming microscopic insects buzzing around them danced on their backs. I had a blast taking the old camera, finding my way into a vast, open farm, and filming the gorgeous deer, wacky squirrels, and even wild horses, sometimes twenty or more roaring down the plain, against the enormous hills in the background. Those animals were fun to film, but what I really wanted to shoot were black bears. They were much harder to find in the wild, but I had been hearing stories of black bears around my area. It took days and days, and countless miles of hiking, until I finally happened to stumble upon not just a black bear, but a mother and her two cubs. Luckily, they ...

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...ve of simply watching movies to a sharp intrigue for just how exactly these films are made. That family vacation down to the cabin in Wears Valley, Tennessee was my first peak into the keyhole to the world of filmmaking, and the near future only seems to show more and more opportunities to take what I love and put that to the best of use. Filming the extravagent views and scenery in Tennessee only raised my interest in filming beautiful, expansive vistas and gorgeous backdrops. It really makes you think about your place in the world, and it brings out the emotions particularly well. There are few things today that can do that to a person, especially without being a risk to your health or dangerous. That is why the idea of making an audience feel something they don’t typically feel is an idea I plan on persuing, and I aim to do it better than anyone else before me.