On a rickety old projector, my dad showed me my first film. It was called Rio (2011) and it had a colorful cast of talking animals- staring a pessimistic Spix macaw aptly named Blue-, and catchy music which, at the time, was all that was needed to hold my mind's attention. I was 5 years old at the time. As time passed he kept showing me films; Kung-Fu Panda (2008), a mind blowing film about the uncertainty of the future, How to Train Your Dragon (2010) which shows courage and bravery, and my personal childhood favorite, a movie which depicts family values in times of hardship and also presents amazing music, The Sound Of Music (1965). As I grew older though, our time together slowly diminished, and my interactions with film followed suit.
2001: A Space Odyssey(1968) eventually brought me back in contact with films. The larger than life feature film about the possibility of alien life fascinated me with its space age technology and cleverly written plot. My mind now engrossed, began to wonder how it was made. How were the sets made? How did they capture that angle? What was the writer thinking? I followed my curiosity into my school's Film Club where I found some like minded people, friends, that showed me more layers to the art than the simple surface level that I noticed.
We worked together to analyze and create films and by doing so would lead us to new information. New cinematography techniques were always exciting and so were lighting and the hardest one, set designing. Set designing requires an understanding of complex behaviors of light, cameras and plot behavior to build a set that provides an amazing shot and of course, provides subtext. I learned about the business side of things after I attended Toronto Film School free seminars, workshops and Q&A sessions. Professionals would be there to help at all; I always loved talking to them about their experience and tried to squeeze out any bit of knowledge they had.
As I gathered knowledge I decided to put it to good use and I started writing a script; CODENAME P.I. unfolds the messy life of a middle-aged private investigator trying to make a living in downtown Los Angeles. Along the way I discovered how hard it is to make a proper free flowing script that was extravagant but still grounded in reality; while researching sets, props and anything else that would add value to the film. Despite the hard work I enjoy and I hope to see it made one day.
I've learned a lot about films in my life and I've grown to love this art more and more as a result of that. But there's always more to learn, more to see and of course more to create. There's no limits. Maybe my endless fascination with film might be because, as I sit and watch a film, I am once again that little child sitting on his dads lap enjoying Rio.
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4785 The essay is confusing. You said you began to spend less time with your father and in the process, you lost interest in films as well. Perhaps you do not understand English enough to know that your word choices indicate that idea? Your essay shows that you had a growing interest in film from childhood till now. It would be nice if you could let the reviewer know about the sort of influence your father had on your love for film, other than simply showing you films on a projector. Surely you discussed these with him early on, making him your first film teacher. That would be information of interest to the reviewer. So try to work it into the presentation if you can.
