This class has made me rethink all of my preconceived notions of film and art in general. I started out this class wanting to give people my message about life and how I think people should think. Well in about a week and a half I have officially been "Leeperized" meaning that I now know that I know nothing about film and art. I am not to concerned about my lack of knowledge because for a student I think arrogance will always get in the way of true learning. Speaking of true learning I have now been filming things within these few weeks that are completely out of my normal. I'm not worried any more about making something that is spectacular or something that will go viral and make me a ton of money. As an amateur film maker of which I still am, I started making films only to make people laugh and to entertain. I have never tried to work with topics that may make people uncomfortable. In general I think people try to avoid media that might actually break their "bubble" in which their whole reality lies. Making it even worse they single out those who try to broaden their perspective and most of the time make fun of them because they don't understand. I have never considered myself a dark person yet as of recently my films, if you can call them that are depicting some of the most ugly things in life. I don't expect anyone reading this to actually watch my video or anyone who watched my video to read this blog post because I probably won't read other posts. Although I may read a few because if this class has taught me anything is the one thing you cannot ignore in art is human nature. Human nature is ugly and despicable, yet once and a while inspiring therefore my art right now is trying to represent that by what I see and leaving any conclusions about the video to the viewer.
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