Letter 1
Hey Grange,
Hows it going man!!!?? You better be working your ass off at a good job and making as many films and projects as you can. This is your year! You have an entire year to work, save money, and make as many projects as you can. Get your name out their! Don't let others take advantage of you but also be agreeable and fair. You have so many ideas and lots of drive so let me see what you can do. I don't want you to talk about making films, I just want you to make films. Get out there and do what youve always wanted to do. I have a huge list of projects that Im expecting you get done!
1. Film the solstice festival this summer as planned, and make that into an amazing recap video for them! I then want you to send in your recap and promo videos from solstice to other festivals and show them what you can do for them! Use your connections with musicians! You really can do it, its not even hard, you do this shit every day.
2. Release an amazing short film. You haven't even made a film since the beginning of the year, its time to step it up and make some amazing shorts. Send them to festivals and get your name out their. Your better than most of the cliche unoriginal crap thats flooding the market! But dont be too cocky! There are millions of better filmmakers than you and their going to crush you if you don't give your everything to the project. EVERYTHING. This isn't easy but theres nothing else you would rather do. JUST DO IT MAN.
3. Make the music videos for Golden Dawn Arkestra that you planned out. This could be your big moment. Lots of people would see that, and you would be working with a very creative group of musicians who are interested in more than just music. They love the creativity and theatrics of it all, these are people you need to be working with. You see eye to eye on a lot of ideas. Lets make it happen Grange.
Now its time to reflect...
Newspaper class has truly been an amazing class for me to take. It wasn't boring and childish like a lot of my high school classes. It gave me what i wanted, it gave me a taste of the professional and real world! This class shaped me. It taught me all about shooting events and how to talk and work with people, something I find myself doing outside of school a lot. It prepared me for my future as a filmmaker and definatley inspired me for what I want to do. I love this class. Mr. Reeves seriously thank you for everything you do for me and everything you have shown me. You truly have made an impact in my life and I mean that with sincere honesty. You are exactly what teachers should be! You inspired my passions and taught me how to be a better photographer. You made me crave the real world while also giving me amazing experience that I think really has readied me for what lays ahead. One thing I would like to add about this year is that I am sorry for some of my work. This year I found myself being spread so thin I almost went crazy. I just couldn't keep up with all the things going on in my life and all the tasks I said I would do. For that reason the newspaper sometimes suffered. My time was spent on other things and newspaper sometimes only got my leftover time and that was unfair and rude. Please know I didn't mean this as an insult, I really was just spread too thin sometimes, which is no ones fault but myself. I just couldn't do everything I said I could. Looking back on my photo essays last class I realized that a lot of my work was better last year and that made me feel bad. Im sorry, please know this class was amazing and I am forever grateful for it.
