Starting The Final Task

Hello, it has been a while since we last spoke. My name is Serena Nixon and I am now 17 years old. I am considered to be the middle child as I have one older sister and one younger brother. I enjoy listening to music, sewing, painting, and watching tv when I have free time. After I graduate from Fort Lauderdale High School, I plan on attending college and going to medical school to become a dermatologist. Once I reach this goal, I plan to open my own office and start my own skincare line. Now that I have briefly refreshed your memory about me, let's talk about the final project. This has to be one of the projects that I have always dreamed of doing. When I was told we were creating the first two minutes of our own movie I instantly got excited. My interest in movies and their production has always been fairly great. With this interest and a combination of my active imagination, I often created movie type scenarios in my head. I would envision different scenes and how I would go about creating and directing them. I can't believe that I will get the opportunity to do so with this project. I am beyond thrilled to start working. For this project, I have chosen to work alone as I have done so in the past projects. I chose to work by myself because of the pandemic and how much of a risk it would be to the parties involved. I also feared that it would be difficult to safely record with the social distancing measures in place. Despite this, I wanted to work alone so that I could somewhat challenge myself to execute the ideas I create on my own. When you are working with other people, the level of your originality or creativity can be somewhat compromised since you would need to agree on a singular idea. This can cause needless problems throughout the filmmaking. Whilst I would love to work with my peers, I believe that working alone will be enjoyable and that it is the best decision for me in this project. It is evident how eager I am to tackle this new assignment. I cant wait to see what I am able to come up with! I will see you next time!

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