Obsessive Parents - help me!

HSisOverrated
Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:58:02 +0000

Are you able to start a club at your school, or even casually with a group of friends?



I was assigned “school liaison to clubs” as part of my student body “job”, but it was later discovered that the elites ordered a close-forum policy. Meaning…no clubs allowed.

There is only about 60 kids in my grade, and I’ve been petitioning for a club (and clubs in general) but to no avail.





The point is, even if the exact opportunities that I mention above aren’t available to you, you can still springboard yourself into involvement (and you say that you do “nothing,” so if you don’t get involved with film, get involved with something, at least for your own sake…youth group, a local choir, service projects, club sports, a job, a regular volunteer position).



Those are things I want to do, but I don’t know where to start. I accused my local church of being a cult and was expelled from the youth group, I was involved in sports for about 6 years but broke both my ankles in 7th grade and so anything physically based is quite difficult, I’m applying for a job at the local theatre (called them today) but still don’t have any volunteering positions other than film festivals which haven’t started yet.



For the record, my sister worked and bought her own video camera. She started out using her cousin and her friend’s versions of Final Cut and taught herself the program from scratch. Easy? No way. Low commitment? Definitely not. But cost or readily available resources were not issues.



I actually got new camera. My previous one was stolen in a robbery…3 years ago. XD



It can be tough not having “ready made” opportunities–a Film Club, Film Production course, and father with the last name of Spielberg or Lucas–but don’t let that stop you from pursuing your interests (especially when it comes to film, where yes, your creative resume will be important). In the end, forging your own path will probably look more impressive than having followed someone else’s.



Yeah, sounds great.



ETA: Are you definitely interested in Film Production, or are you also considering Film Studies? If the latter, a creative resume will generally be unnecessary (or at least less heavily emphasized) and your choice of schools will be greater.



Film production.



If the former, it’s common not to actually start your major courses until soph or junior (USC) year. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing…it could give you a year or two of increased resources and a good way to build up your creative resume. It could also give you good opportunities as a transfer student.



Chapman’s Dodge College is the ONLY school I want to go to. Naturally I’ll apply to Tisch and SCA , but odds of admissions are very very low.