My Future Career

My Future Career

By Paris White

English Composition I

October 28, 2012

Is it to sudden of a choice? Have I injured all opportunities of my future without unknowingly knowing what’s in store for me? “I want to be a Digital Cinematographer”. That’s when my thoughts started becoming envisioned as movies. Is this going to be a waste of time? No, not at all because it’s something that I’m truly passionate to learn, can create with, love, have fun with, learn from, make money, balance my time with and approach on a free minded level of thinking. I even find it to be scary and quite controlling, the way I think at times. But they are my thoughts. Being a courageous thinker has always pointed my thoughts & actions into many directions that were needed or unneeded, and regardless they managed to help me. You never really know what you’re going to think next! Being a very positive person and at times having negative thoughts, I learned to overcome those negative thoughts with fear, vigorously and using them creatively.

In this field in the entertainment industry you must have competent skills of every aspect; from being a creative thinker, learning how to brainstorm, understanding the fundamentals of being a writer, mastering the composition skills needed to be a cameraman or a photographer, psychology, patience, communication skills, math which reflects in timing and then you got the business side, the most important. These were my initial thoughts about the industry before gaining experience in, the entertainment industry. It takes a lot to be in this industry and you really have to be good, straight forward, continuously productive, direct with your words, and creatively logical with your craft. Nobody wants to view anything boring or that has no purpose. These are the things I thought about before signing up with Full Sail that I’d needed to know.

With every job or career there are positive’s and negatives. Which leads me to say you, have to really work very hard and make sure your over top of you’re “A” game. Everything isn’t promised on this path, unless you’re promising to succeed and prosper, maintain a good attitude, building rapport with others in the industry, and most importantly professionalism. Number one is working hard and following the guidelines to success, never giving up. Once you never give up and can take rejections keeping the same attitude you’ve already achieved success for the better. That is what this industry looks for strong minded and strong character and positive individuals who are high energy & consistently creative. Those that can, take a no and walk away with a smile and possibly get that yes later down the road because they handled themselves professionally.

After doing a little research of my field before entering Full Sail I checked out the major description on the school’s official site. There were a few things that really stood out to me and made me decide my choice to do it. Digital video is a powerful communication tool that reaches millions of people who turn to electronic media for their news and entertainment every day. That popularity has created a growing demand for artists with the visual and technical skills to produce material for a variety of different outlets, including broadcast television, websites, mobile devices, and independent feature films. And what that tells me is that multi-tasking in this field with my skills will be fun and hard working. From a article on Film School Rejects, article Culture Warrior by Landon Palmer he quotes, But the most interesting aspect of Hollywood’s use of digital camerawork is not in its use with special effects or its invisible imitation of film, but in those rare major studio productions that use digital in a way that is totally unique and particular to the technology—films that acknowledge the fact that the digital is not “like” film nor should it strive to be so, and that it doesn’t necessarily have to exist in tandem with digital imaging for its use to be justified.

In conclusion Digital Cinematography has come from a long way of series of various different technological experiments. Now that it is making it’s mark it will only get better as the time comes and goes along day by day. My reactions to this field were very much approved fore I knew there were some things I wanted to do and now have proof that it can be done.

References

Multiple Page Website: Full Sail University. (2012). Digital Cinematography Overview. http://online.fullsail.edu/degrees/digital-cinematography-bachelors. October 28th 2012.

Landon Palmer. July 6^th 2009. Culture Warrior. http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-digital-cinematography-in-hollywood.php. October 28, 2012